Blizzard's new StarCraft game has been a big hit, selling 1.5 million copies in the first two days alone. When NPD released its July video game console sales data, the tracking firm had no choice but to acknowledge the PC game's big impact on the industry. The game sold 721K units at retail, but what you may not have realized is that the title also topped all software in general.
The all categories software PC chart sent to IndustryGamers by NPD reveals that StarCraft II dominated the PC industry for the month, ahead of eight-dollar software like Kaspersky Antivirus 2010, Webroot Antivirus with Spy Sweeper and big name, more expensive software like MS Office. The $100 collector's edition of StarCraft II also placed sixth on the all categories PC chart.
Other games to make the all categories chart included EA's The Sims 3 (12th), The Sims 3 Ambitions Expansion Pack (14th), and Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister (18th).
We'll be curious to see if StarCraft II can hold onto its momentum in its second month.
3 Comments
August 18, 2010
Wow—I wonder if this has ever happened before (a PC game outselling all other PC software) ... anyone?
Also—how did SCII for the Mac sell?
August 18, 2010
Ahh, who cares how it sold for the mac. I wonder how much additional cost/time development took to develop the game for a different platform to appease the SJ 'achine users. :-)
Seriously, though, I am sure you can find any kind of software outselling any other kind of software if you choose the time period genre and market properly in your survey. See what I am getting at?
August 19, 2010
Yes, I believe it's happened before with other big games, like other WoW games, Sims titles, etc.