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| | (Post a comment) » Top 10 Best Selling PC Games Of 2007The NPD Group has released the list of the top 10 best selling PC games of 2007 in the US:
1. World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade - Blizzard – 2.25 million
2. World of Warcraft – Blizzard – 914,000
3. The Sims 2 Seasons Expansion Pack – Electronic Arts – 433,000
4. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare – Activision – 383,000
5. Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars – Electronic Arts – 343,000
6. Sim City 4 Deluxe – Electronic Arts – 284,000
7. The Sims 2 – Electronic Arts – 281,000
8. The Sims 2 Bon Voyage Expansion Pack – Electronic Arts – 271,000
9. Age of Empires III – Microsoft – 259,000
10. The Sims 2 Pets Expansion Pack – Electronic Arts – 236,000
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| 20 User Comment(s) • 5 root comment(s) |
Anonymous (-) Jan 25, 2008 - 10:21 am
| For the record:
My Sempron 2800+ and ATI X800 allowed me to play Crysis at above 40FPS average and at native res 1280*1024. Settings were not the lowest they go. Cost of system when new 3 years ago? £500.
PC gaming does not have to be expensive.» Login to reply to this |




Smooth (181) Jan 24, 2008 - 02:23 pm
| Only 383,000 for PC CoD4 :(
When the 360 version sold 1,470,000 in December alone, you can't blame developers for going multi-platform.» Login to reply to this DaBlow (21) Jan 24, 2008 - 05:33 pm
| Bah I am not too worried about that. Even if all the current PC developers would stop releasing stuff on the PC, a bunch of garage based companies will once again surface and start releasing games for a reasonable price, just like the good old days.
Remember with PC, you get a huge install base and no royalty fees :D So for a startup, it's the obvious path to take.» Login to reply to this Stories (315) Jan 24, 2008 - 09:37 pm
| Okay, then big budget titles are on the way out. How many sales do these huge AAA titles need to sell to break even? 300,000? I was hearing somewhere in the 400-500,000 range for PS3/X360 games, I wouldn't imagine PC being much different.
At some point, the 100+ person development teams necessary for big budget PC games will no longer be economically feasible. The days of shareware and small 4-5 person teams will be the norm. With those games, 8800GTS graphics cards will be unnecessary, really.» Login to reply to this |

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Stories (315) Jan 24, 2008 - 03:28 pm
| That's less than the PS3 version...
I think PC gaming is on the way out. :-(» Login to reply to this 
Willow (142) Jan 24, 2008 - 03:38 pm
| | Ya this hasn't been stated at least weekly for the past 10 years. » Login to reply to this Labotomizer (1077) Jan 25, 2008 - 09:01 am
| To SF:
I don't feel my statement was idiotic in any way, shape or form. A $900 rig WILL NOT run Crysis with all high settings at an acceptable frame rate. Perhaps the devs have shown that it can but it's funny that NO OTHER REVIEWER OR GAMER HAS CONFIRMED THIS. I suppose you think that the dev is somehow above other companies and wouldn't skew the numbers and tweak things in ways that we couldn't possibly accomplish to show better benchmarks than real world would show. I know on an 8800GTS with an E6600 and 4GB of memory it can't run with all settings at high and see anyting more than about 14-15 FPS. Yes, Crysis does seem smoother at those lower frames than you would see in any other game, I'll admit that, but I still don't find it playable. A game isn't playable until about 25-30 fps at a minumum. Judging from benchmarks with a triple SLI 8800 Ultra rig that's about what you need to have everything on high and maybe, MAYBE play at an acceptable frame rate. That's $2k in video acceleration alone, not counting everything else you need to make that run properly.
Also, do you think investors will continue to support a game that's a PC exclusive when they have the option of supporting the same or similar game cross-platform, or even console exclusive, and make FAR more money? Bottom line is cash is what drives the investors and the investors drive the developers. If Crysis had been released for 360 it probably would have topped 1 million copies easily, perhaps more. If anything you're the one making the idiotic statements, which seems out of character, by living in denial that big budget PC exclusives will be a thing of the past. I'm fine with cross platform myself simply because I prefer gaming on my PC to the consoles.» Login to reply to this |

SFtheWolf (571) Jan 24, 2008 - 06:52 pm
| | Responding to "Labotomizer": It's popular yet idiotic statements like those that are causing PC gaming to suffer, namely the "fact" you need a 5k rig to run Crysis (the devs themselves have shown it runs on all high settings on a $900 system), and the "fact" that developing for the 360 is similar or results in a similar product. » Login to reply to this |


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