Barozi said:
Scisca said:
Kynes said:
Do you know that digital downloads is a huge market for PC games? I have ~200 games on Steam, and no one is a retail purchase.
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Are you trying to tell me that they sold 3 million in retail and 9 million digitally? The games you have are most probably mainly from some ridiculous Steam sales, aren't they? I can't recall Diablo 3 getting any such sale. So no, this number is terribly wrong, is a disgrace to this service and should be corrected. Moreover, if the publisher officially gives us the number of copies sold, they should listen to them and correct the numbers... I think the publishers know better.
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Eh Blizzard has it's own digital store. Pretty obvious thatgames from Valve, Blizzard and EA have even more digital sales as other third party games on these services.
Also I think I've read somewhere that the 12m numbers includes a few hundred k units that were free for people who own some Blizzard products or something like that. Can't remember for what you would get it for free.
Also the game has a free starter edition. Maybe they counted those as well.
On retail we know that the first weeks and months were certainly not undertracked in the US. Also it was gone in most European charts after ~2 months.
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WoW. If you paid a 12 months subscription, you got Diablo III for free. 1.2 million of those copies were obtained this way.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/05/23/diablo-iii-crushes-pc-sales-records.aspx
If you're playing Diablo III, you're definitely not alone. According to Activision Blizzard, the action-RPG has broken day-one PC sales records, selling more than 3.5 million copies of the game in 24 hours. And that's just the beginning.
When you include players who got the game as part of the World of Warcraft annual pass, that number jumps to 4.7 million players worldwide on the game's first day. Diablo III has sold more than 6.3 million copies in its first week.
