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pezus said:

zarx said:

Rome 2: The strategy game was No.2 in the UK retail charts with over 32,000 units sold, narrowly missing out on the No.1 spot by just 200 copies.

Yet if you factor in UK digital sales of 73,000, and the game would not only have comfortably been top of the charts, but it would have been one of the biggest single format launches of the year, with 105,00 games sold.

This is further evidence of the growing importance of including digital data in the weekly charts.

Wow! Game is probably close to a million already WW, or perhaps over it.

The UK market has been shrinking for some time so 100k for week one is a great achivement for any game in that territory. But it is their home turf and the UK likes the historical angle traditionally (I blame the BBC and their terrific docos) so that might give them a bit of an edge there. Still there is a pretty good chance that the game has already topped 1 million globally, the game has been doing pretty well on the Steam activity charts. Europe especially Germany is a very big market for startergy PC games.