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Vgchartz totals for USA and Global
gayars
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Sims 4 is top seller for week ending Sept. 6. The grand total for USA only for 4 days? 179,368.
Global is 408,150
Global is 408,150
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Fascinating fact nonetheless.
Will be interesting to see the global charts when they're finally up. Also, the totals for the month. TS3 did great the first week but still sold fewer copies overall than TS2. Hopefully TS4's sales will be steady for awhile to come.
I'm not a psychopath. I'm a high-functioning psychopath. Reaper
The Sims 2 was a commercial success, selling one million copies in its first ten days
The Sims 3 was a commercial success, selling 1.4 million copies in its first week.
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Edit: To add I can not believe that is the right total. I am shocked.
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I am shocked...this is so low compared to these totals.
It's from U.S only. The numbers on wikipedia are probably worldwide, and released from E.A
My understanding is that it's units sold but I'm not clear if it includes digital copies. Previous information about that site seemed to indicate they don't have access to digital sales info but I'm just not sure.
I also just realized that @gayars pointed out that's for 4 days so it will be interesting to see those totals for the week, as well. They could be getting pretty close to 1 mil by the end of the week, globally, though I'm sticking with my original guesses of 700,000 to 800,000. It might actually match TS2's 10 day sales numbers, though, which is nice.
I'm not a psychopath. I'm a high-functioning psychopath. Reaper
The hugely anticipated sequel to the biggest selling PC game of all time, The Sims 2,
has made its mark as Electronic Arts' biggest ever PC launch, selling through a million units worldwide in just ten days.
Over 50 per cent of those units were sold in Europe, where the game went straight in at number one in the UK,
and sales of the game were strong across almost every territory in the world.
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http://www.nbcnews.com/id/31194133/ns/technology_and_science-games/t/sims-sells-million-copies-first-week/
Electronic Arts says that 1.4 million copies of "The Sims 3" were sold the first week,
making it the best-selling PC game launch in the company's history.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
If they do count only physical sales as someone suggested above, then I would expect it to be low compared to physical sales in 2009 or 2004. I can't remember the last piece of software I bought a physical copy of, but I had almost all physical copies still in '09. And in '04 I'd have laughed silly at the idea of downloading something as big as Sims 2.
They post their methodology, but it does seem to favor physical sales: http://www.vgchartz.com/methodology.php
Time will tell...I know that is too low for sales totals.
It's for US sales only. If you read further, you'll see the totals I posted for US and Europe. Doesn't include Japan yet and no global numbers yet for that week. They're actually on track to come close to matching previous game totals for the franchise.
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I was answering EasytoRead's question: "That's from worldwide I assume?"
To which I answered "worldwide I suspect"
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