Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Sells 5.7 Million Units Worldwide

LucasArts's Star Wars: The Force Unleashed sold 5.7 units worldwide across all platforms since releasing in September, making it the fastest-selling Star Wars game in history.

Several versions of the title were shipped, with LucasArts developing editions for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360; Krome Studios for PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and Wii; n-Space for DS; and Universomo for iPod Touch, iPhone, N-Gage, and other mobiles.

The non-mobile releases immediately established The Force Unleashed as the fastest-selling Star Wars game in history, moving over 1.5 million copies globally in just its first five days of sale.

The title's demo also received a record number of downloads on Xbox 360, with over one million gamers grabbing the trial in just eight days. Likewise, the PlayStation 3 version was the most downloaded game demo for the PlayStation Network.

The Force Unleashed also recently won the second annual Video Game Writing Award from the Writers Guild of America, an award seeking to "encourage storytelling excellence in video games, improve the status of writers, and foster uniform standards within the gaming industry."

The overall Star Wars brand was so successful in 2008, Lucasfilm says its toy and product line experienced its strongest holiday sales in the 31 years since the theatrical debut of the first Star Wars movie, despite the currently challenging retail economy.

According to consumer research firm The NPD Group, the brand's toy retail sales in 2008 exceeded $450 million, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars was the single most popular licensed toy property last year.

The brand is also celebrating the success of 14 different Star Wars titles appearing on the New York Times best seller list (including a Star Wars: The Force Unleashed novelization). The Star Wars: The Clone Wars cartoon also scored as the most-watched series debut in Cartoon Network's history, and the StarWars.com site saw a 30 percent jump in traffic.

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This makes it the top selling star wars title I think.

glad to see Star Wars brand HIGH despite bad game.....cus Star Wars = BESt movie franchise ever!

Bah ... good for them!

I loved the game. Bit short, but hella fun.

1		Star Wars: The Force Unleashed		LucasArts	5,292	N/A	1.18m	23rd Oct 08
2		Star Wars: The Force Unleashed		LucasArts	4,487	N/A	1.63m	23rd Oct 08
3		Star Wars: The Force Unleashed		LucasArts	3,720	N/A	1.10m	23rd Oct 08
4		Star Wars: The Force Unleashed		LucasArts	711	N/A	0.95m	23rd Oct 08
5		Star Wars: The Force Unleashed		LucasArts	673	N/A	0.58m	23rd Oct 08
6		Star Wars: The Force Unleashed		LucasArts	616	N/A	0.52m	23rd Oct 08

Which sums up to 5,96 million. So about 400-500k overtracking across all platforms, which is very good for Vgchartz.

EDIT : actually a little bit more because you have to also count the mobile versions =P

im glad to know that at least some studios r making money(go chrome studios i love u)

omg,

what a shame to see "bad/average" games getting so high sales

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@neos

PSP versions seems WAY overtracked to me

the rest I dunno

@darth: there was a bundle with TFU+PSP.

Not too bad for VGC.... seems we have about 5.9 million... so maybe 500k overtracked maximum, perhaps as low as 300k

The game was awesome (atleast the ps3 version) .. the way the story was told felt just like the old star wars movie.. was epic throughout. Good to see it got great sales.