Is Diablo 3 on consoles a flop or mega flop?

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niallyb said:

VGchartz tracking for Diablo III on PC is at 3.22 million. Seems kinda low given the numbers people are throwing around in here? Of course they also have the publisher wrong . Activision didn't own Blizzard in 1996 :)

Also the original Diablo was gimped for release on Playstation and is tracked at .58 million. So as far as I'm aware - the Diablo 3 ports are actually Blizzards MOST successful outing on consoles ever ! Kinda shocking right?

Compare it to how Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance did on consoles. (I think the GC version is under tracked BTW). Its a VERY similar game based on what was a huge RPG franchise at the time. Dark alliance did 1.24 million WW and DA2 did about half that. I think Diablo 3 will exceed 1.5 million by the end of 2014.

 

It sold another 35 K on Ps3 and 27K on XB360 last week. Its legs are decent enough given there have been no price drops and marketing support was all concentrated at the launch.

VGC doesn't track digital sales. WoW subscribers who got themselves an annual pass got it for free and the rest was mostly sold through battle.net.