ORANGE BOX sells like hot bitches. (significantly more than 1.5 million PC)

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duragezic

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Excellent. They deserve it.

So of the big games last year, I think most all of them ended up selling pretty well?

Not sure on Bioshock, but Crysis, The Witcher, The Orange Box, COD4, STALKER, and C&C3 sold well.

Unfortunately, UT3 has done very poorly (and although it is not a spectacular game, I think it is great), and ET-Quake Wars did not sell too hot which is a shame too as I found it to be excellent. But at least theres a lot of online players on QW as opposed to UT3.


edit: I was way off. Didn't see the other thread, since before I bunched STALKER with UT3 and Quake Wars as not having sold well which is unfortunate since it is an awesome game, so I fixed that.
 
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BladeVenom

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How many total sales did The Burning Crusade get? It sold 2.4 Million in the first 24 hours. It's total US sales were over 2.25 Million for last year.
 
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Thraxen

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Of course, it should be noted that they are counting PC sales as a la carte. TOB is only available as a full package on consoles. Not that that doesn't mean it didn't sell well on the PC, but the way they are counting sales on the PC is misleading.
 
Ultralight

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Could you guys clear something up for me, please. I have read conflicting reports on the number of units sold for a PC game to be considered "successful." Certainly 1.5 million copies sold of the Orange Box is excellent news.

But what is the dividing line bewtween successful # of copies sold and failure?
 
Modelworks

Modelworks

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Originally posted by: Ultralight
Could you guys clear something up for me, please. I have read conflicting reports on the number of units sold for a PC game to be considered "successful." Certainly 1.5 million copies sold of the Orange Box is excellent news.

But what is the dividing line bewtween successful # of copies sold and failure?
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There is no hard rule.
If a game sells enough to pay for the development cost its considered succesful.


Most developers keep development cost a secret, so its really hard to tell.

1 million is just a nice sounding number.

A better indicator of how well a game is doing is how its selling compared to other games in the same category.

so orange box is fps, sells 1.5 million , other games in the same category.
Stalker ~ 1.65 million
Crysis sold ~ 1 million
Call of Duty 4 ~ 383K
UT3 ~ 78K


Pretty easy to see who is succesful in the pc fps area.






 
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