www.gamedaily.com/games/world-of-warcraft/pc/game-news/wow-sims-dominate-top-10-pc-games-of-07/2475/19191/ Top 10 games: 1. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade- 2.25 million 2. World of Warcraft- 914,000 3. The Sims 2 Seasons Expansion Pack- 433,000 4. Call of Duty 4- 383,000 5. Command and Conquer 3- 343,000 6. Sim City 4 Deluxe- 284,000 7. The Sims 2- 281,000 8. The Sims 2 Bon Voyage Package- 271,000 9. Age of Empires 3- 259,000 10. The Sims 2 Pets Expansion- 236,000 Only 4 non WoW or Sims games, no Orange Box.

All I get is an empty article...can you paste it? Is this US only figures?

All the PC gamers are too busy playing WoW to have time to play any other games. I know that was the case when I was playing Wow a while back.

To basically nobody's surprise, Blizzard's MMO World of Warcraft topped the charts in 2007. The Burning Crusade expansion pack and the original sold over 3 million units in the U.S.

Posted by James Brightman on Thursday, January 24, 2008

Following the PC game sales totals, GameDaily BIZ has acquired the NPD's top 10 best-selling PC games of 2007. Unsurprisingly, Blizzard's World of Warcraft dominated all other games last year. The first expansion pack Burning Crusade sold 2.25 million units (including collector's edition) in the U.S. The original World of Warcraft followed with 914,000 units.

EA's The Sims franchise was also very well represented, occupying no less than four of the top 10 slots. Here are the top 10 PC titles (ranked by units) for 2007:

1. World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade* – Vivendi (Blizzard) – 2.25 million
2. World of Warcraft – Vivendi (Blizzard) – 914K
3. The Sims 2 Seasons Expansion Pack – Electronic Arts – 433K
4. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare* – Activision – 383K
5. Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars* – Electronic Arts – 343K
6. Sim City 4 Deluxe – Electronic Arts – 284K
7. The Sims 2 – Electronic Arts – 281K
8. The Sims 2 Bon Voyage Expansion Pack – Electronic Arts – 271K
9. Age of Empires III – Microsoft – 259K
10. The Sims 2 Pets Expansion Pack – Electronic Arts – 236K

*Includes Collector's, Kane Editions

http://www.gamedaily.com/games/world-of-warcraft/pc/game-news/wow-sims-dominate-top-10-pc-games-of-07/2475/19191/ 

orangebox did sell very good only not in retail, almost everyone bought it through steam.

Cue PC gaming is thread argument.

Can't paste on the PS3, these are US numbers.

Steam probably taking a good chunk of sales but these are still unimpressive numbers and Sim/WoW domination plus years old games in the top 10 not exactly great for PC gaming.

Console gaming (X360, PS3) is taking over PC, because both are just cheaper version of PC, with more games and less frequent upgrades of hardwares. PC games is officially dead.

 Shurely "dead"?

shut up, you fail.

Do not base your argument on NPD reports alone, because:

- Download services are not counted by NPD, which takes a chunk from the sales tracking. Steam alone has over 13 million users (as of May 23rd '07),  and over 20% of the visitors are from US. Then add Direct2Drive, Gametap, etc...

- Game subscriptions are not tracked, which means the money of the 2.5million americans who play WoW is not accounted for. That's like $330 million right there for 2007 (monthly pay of $11 x 12 months x 2.5 million players), plus other MMO's such as Everquest, EVE online, etc...

- The US has a traditionally weak PC market. Germany alone has a bigger PC market than US. The entire Europe probably has 4 times bigger PC market than the US. Also, PC gaming is stronger than ever in Asia, with 5 million WoW asian gamers and PC controlling almost 80% of South Korea's gaming (with a revenue of 1.5 billion dollars on PC games, easily more than the US)

-  And even without counting the downloaded games, averagely PC has sold around as much retail copies as the consoles:

PC retail copies sold - 36.4 million

Home Consoles retail copies - 153.9 million, (38.4 million average, ignoring Xbox/GC sales)

Portable Consoles retail copies - 77.5 million (38.7 million average, ignoring GBA sales)

36.4 vs 38.4 vs 38.7, not really that far, is it.