Thats 15 million active users, not just 15 million people with accounts silly. Furthermore 2 billion dollars in revenue for WOW is 33 million games sold. To put that in perspective thats Wiisports+Wiiplay+CoD4+Halo3+more or something, im guessing here. If steam was doing badly, then why have Ubisoft and Activision joined up?
"With total GPU shipments at 336 Million units and total CPU shipments hitting only 273 Million, double attachment can help explain why so many more GPUs were sold than CPUs: if CPU sales more closely represents the number of systems sold or built last year, there are a large number of computers with unused integrated graphics in them which count as two shipped GPUs. This overlap would mean that Intel's shipped graphics number greatly over inflate the market impact of their graphics products."
Edit: Thanks anand http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3282&p=2
Reading between the lines, thats 60 MILLION discrete GPUs sold per year. If just half of those are for gamers, thats more than the Xbox360/PS3 totals to date.
@hunteralien - Crysis sold over a million. That was just a very niche pc game because of the graphics requirement. If you don't pay $12 to the retailer, nor do you pay $8 for the physical disk and you don't pay $10 to the console maker, but instead pay $5 to Valve... You get to keep $45 out of $50 on steam. Beats the $30 you get on a console.
Tease.
