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shio on 15 July 2008

Diablo Battle Chest Hits #2 in Weekly PC Sales, 29 June - 5 July

In the week following Diablo 3's announcement on June 28, Blizzard's Diablo Battle Chest compilation was the second best-selling PC game at United States retailers. Compiled by sales-tracking firm NPD, the data covers the week of June 29 to July 5.

Containing the original Diablo, Diablo II, and the Diablo II expansion Lord of Destruction, the Diablo Battle Chest hit retailers in 2003. In the week before Diablo 3's official announcement, rumors of its revelation bumped Battle Chest sales up to #10.

  1. The Sims 2 IKEA Home Stuff Expansion Pack
  2. Diablo Battle Chest
  3. Spore Creature Creator
  4. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe
  5. World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest
  6. World Of Warcraft
  7. Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures
  8. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack
  9. The Sims 2 FreeTime Expansion Pack
  10. Warcraft III Battle Chest
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53686


The announcement of Diablo 3 really bumped Diablo Battlechest and, heck, even Warcraft 3 Battlechest. Blizzard is filling half of the top 10.


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redspear on 15 July 2008

OMG the Sims was the top selling game! ARRRGGGGGHHH The casual market has taken the PC well that its it I am throwing in the towel there won't be anymore Hardcore games I guess I will just a Wii than no errr wait I meant 360 errrr avatars maybe a PS3 noooo LBP! The world is doomed!!!!!



fazz on 15 July 2008

LOL, it's true! A friend of mine bought the Diablo Battle Chest just because Diablo 3 was announced haha.



FaRmLaNd on 15 July 2008

Just look at that list. Blizzard dominates pc gaming like nintendo dominates console gaming. I mean they have 50% of the top 10! Not to mention diablo 2 has snuck into many of the european charts aswell.

 

Back to playing diablo 2 for me!



Strategyking92 on 15 July 2008

The something about the sims will always be No. 1. lol, I've gotten so used to it. Unless a new warcraft expansion is released, of course.



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Ickalanda on 16 July 2008

A large part of the reason why Blizzard dominates the RETAIL sales is because their games are still mostly actually bought hard copy.

NPD only tracks retail PC game sales but the majority are actually download sales now and not store bought.

But if Blizzard had one thing to say to other gaming companies that complain about their games just getting pirated and having poor sales and crap, they would just say actually wait to release high quality titles and don't release games that just plain out suck. Some companies always have high quality like Valve and Id but many just manage to pump out crappy PC ports of console games and stuff like that.



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