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Forums - Sales - Americas Pre-order Chart (3rd July, 2010)

shanbcn on 06 July 2010
Cross-X said:
Carl2291 said:

STARCRAFT!

Would love to see those preorders in Korea

I'm South Korean so I can provide you with that :D!

There isn't a specific place where I can get exact Korean Preorder numbers for Starcraft II but there was an article about the preorders and when I checked that article (near the end of June), there are approximately 70,000 preorders in South Korea alone. Now for a small country like South Korea that's a lot for preorders. Most of them preordered for the beta but analysts stronly believe that in the first week or even in the first few days Starcraft II will sell over 100,000, which is once again, big numbers.

Plus it's getting massive marketing. Like have you seen the Korean Air plane with Starcraft II on it?

And just a few days ago, they annoucned this:

Yeah that's all real and you know how serious Starcraft really is in Korea :D!!!

 


It seem you doesn't know much about SC popularty in South Korea. Firsr SC sold 4.5 million yes 4.5 million there.



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Cross-X on 06 July 2010
shanbcn said:
Cross-X said:
Carl2291 said:

STARCRAFT!

Would love to see those preorders in Korea

I'm South Korean so I can provide you with that :D!

There isn't a specific place where I can get exact Korean Preorder numbers for Starcraft II but there was an article about the preorders and when I checked that article (near the end of June), there are approximately 70,000 preorders in South Korea alone. Now for a small country like South Korea that's a lot for preorders. Most of them preordered for the beta but analysts stronly believe that in the first week or even in the first few days Starcraft II will sell over 100,000, which is once again, big numbers.

Plus it's getting massive marketing. Like have you seen the Korean Air plane with Starcraft II on it?

And just a few days ago, they annoucned this:

Yeah that's all real and you know how serious Starcraft really is in Korea :D!!!

 


It seem you doesn't know much about SC popularty in South Korea. Firsr SC sold 4.5 million yes 4.5 million there.

Shit man I'm Korean and I've been to South Korea many times and I'm pretty sure I know clearly how popular and big Starcraft really is.

Now days it's so damn easy to find pirated copies in Korea and believe me, there'll be way more people who will be playing pirated copies in Korea than those who buy retail. This is not like 10 years ago since Starcraft first launched. And Korean's aren't that big on preorders and they preordered to play the beta. And over time it will sell in big numbers. People have to get used to Starcraft II first and once word of mouth spreads that Starcraft II is better than the original, that's when you'll see big numbers. The original starcraft didn't sell like 1 million during the first week in Korea and yet it went out to sell 4.5 Mil and more than 5 Mil at least have played Starcraft during the course of 10 years.



Cross-X on 06 July 2010
ioi said:

Starcraft II preorders are significantly higher than 70k in South Korea!!

What's it like now?



c0rd on 06 July 2010
ioi said:

Starcraft II preorders are significantly higher than 70k in South Korea!!

Ha, I hoped as much. I recall reading about Starcraft (1's) sales being better in South Korea than the US.

edit: 1.5mil opening from Asia would be awesome.



RageBot on 06 July 2010
ioi said:

We expect Asian sales (primarily South Korea) to be well over 1.5m week one...


...Incredible O_O

Do you happen to have contacts in Israel as well? I know that it is a tiny market, but SC2's preorders here are huge compared to how games usually fare here (and that's without adding piracy to the equation) - some small stores already have 60 preorders by now.



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ps3_jrpg_gamer on 06 July 2010

StarCraft 2 when it was last time a PC game have that much pre-orders ?



Cross-X on 06 July 2010
ioi said:

We expect Asian sales (primarily South Korea) to be well over 1.5m week one...

lol what have South Korean Analysts been thinking that they're confident that it'll sell over 100,000 First week lol. They sure have high expectation.



FaRmLaNd on 06 July 2010
ioi said:

We expect Asian sales (primarily South Korea) to be well over 1.5m week one...


So assuming your number is correct for Asia. We've got 1.5 million in Asia, 1 million in NA first week? So not including Europe and Australia/NZ etc we're looking at 2.5 million first week? Or around abouts.

Would I be on the right track to expect a minimum of 3 million first week WW for starcraft 2? If thats the case then Starcraft 2 might just end up outselling the original givin how strong the legs most Blizzard games have?



FaRmLaNd on 06 July 2010
ps3_jrpg_gamer said:

StarCraft 2 when it was last time a PC game have that much pre-orders ?

Probably the last WOW expansion.

EDIT And when the Sims 3 was released of course!



heruamon on 06 July 2010

Halo doesn't look very dead to me...lol.



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