Erik Aston on 16 February 2008
| Bodhesatva said: Need to update WoW. There are over 10 million subscribers now. I don't really care how that's happened or what the site says, having 10 million paying players right now (let alone in the 3 year history -- we'd probably be talking 15 million at a minimum, but that's guesswork) can't equate to 9 million copies. Just silly :p |
The subscription number counts bulk subscriptions for cyber cafes and other establishments in Asian countries that don't strictly follow a retail store/boxed game model. That's how subsciptions can be above sales. I have no idea how sales ought to be counted, so I'll stick with what VGC lists.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
