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macross on 19 June 2008

1. Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures
2. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe
3. Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures CE
4. WoW: Battle Chest
5. The Sims 2 Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Stuff Expansion Pack
6. World of Warcraft
7. WoW: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack
8. The Sims 2 FreeTime Expansion Pack
9. Sim City 4 Deluxe
10. 15000 Games WTF is this?????

http://kotaku.com/5017798/npds-pc-sales-charts-may



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makingmusic476 on 19 June 2008

PC sales are practically impossible to track, given how large a percentage of the market is made up of untracked, digital distribution retailers such as Steam.

NPD's numbers are probably quite low.



Mudface on 19 June 2008

I still think NPD should release PC sales figures- as long as it's made clear that they're just boxed retail, then I don't see any harm in doing so. Could VGChartz do the same as well? If they're collecting figures from a sample of various outlets that also sell PC games, it would be pretty trivial to also quote them along with the console numbers.

BTW, does anybody have an idea of the sort of sales that Steam generates? It apparently has over 15 million users, but Valve have never released any figures. Doug Lombardi stated recently that total revenues from Steam over the last 4 years or so would soon surpass combined retail revenues from Valve's games, so it must be a healthy amount. Would anyone care to hazard a guess as to what the likes of COD4, Bioshock, Audiosurf and the like have sold through Steam?



mike_intellivision on 19 June 2008

I feel that trying to get PC numbers -- which we know would not be a complete package -- could detract from the primary goal of this website -- to get good sales numbers on consoles/handhelds and the software for those types of machines.

Also, if numbers were posted that are known to be incomplete, it could call into question (by association) all of the other data on the website.

Just my two cents.

Mike from Morgantown



      


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KohlyKohl on 19 June 2008

Agreed. PC sales are too difficult to track in any capacity.



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Mudface on 20 June 2008

Can't they just make them up like they do with the consoles?

*runs*



Rath on 20 June 2008
Mudface said:
Can't they just make them up like they do with the consoles?

*runs*

 

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