US PC Game Charts: April 9-15

Oblivion gets bumped out of the top slot by the latest Sims 2 add-on, while Battlefield 2 and The Godfather get whacked.

For all their might, the daedra have nothing on the sims. The demonic creatures from the Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion were knocked off the top slot of the US PC Sales charts, according to the most recent figures released by industry trade group NPD Funworld.

According to NPD, Sims 2: Family Fun Stuff was the top PC title in the US the week of April 9, its first week on the market. The add-on adds a variety of new content to The Sims 2, including clothes for adult sims, toys for kid sims, and décor for sim houses--all for $19.99, which is $15 less than the Open for Business expansion pack, the third-best-selling game of the week.

Elder Scrolls didn't fall far, however. Bethesda Softworks and 2K Games' habit-forming role-playing game slipped just one slot to number two, four slots ahead of Blizzard Entertainment's equally addictive massively multiplayer role-playing game, World of Warcraft.

If real-time strategy is your thing, the PC top 10 had a trio of popular favorites: Age of Empires III (fourth), Star Wars: Empire at War (eighth), and The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II (10th). Those more partial to turn-based strategy had just one offering--seventh-place finisher Civilization IV, and animal-sim lovers bought enough of Zoo Tycoon 2 to have it reenter the top 10 at number nine.

The two games falling off the top 10 the week of April 9 were both from megapublisher Electronic Arts: Battlefield 2 and The Godfather.

21 Comments

  • alpha_company

    Posted May 16, 2006 6:23 am PT

    wow man...

  • TheFalseDragon

    Posted May 2, 2006 11:34 am PT

    I don't play pc games... but I do play Mac games. How come Gamespot never mentions them?

  • yb125

    Posted May 1, 2006 3:55 pm PT

    " Is it just me, or does anyone else remember when Sims 2 was released they said that it will have no need for expansion packs because it will already have everything you will ever need already in the game? "

    It's just you, they specifically said there will be seven expansion packs.
    Not big on the addons, but love the expansion packs.

  • koolgg

    Posted May 1, 2006 3:55 pm PT

    the sims suck
    grand theft auto san andreas, resident evil 4 all the way

  • jasperchiong

    Posted May 1, 2006 2:28 pm PT

    it's just you, but still i find sims boring.

  • nhlkoho

    Posted May 1, 2006 12:06 pm PT

    Sims is so overdone its ridiculous. Charging people for new clothes and maybe some pictures you can hang in your crappy sim house. Give it a rest already. I think the creator of this franchise has enough money from all these idiots that keep buying his games. Is it just me, or does anyone else remember when Sims 2 was released they said that it will have no need for expansion packs because it will already have everything you will ever need already in the game?

  • larsypoop

    Posted May 1, 2006 5:20 am PT

    I can't stand it that EA has FOUR 'top 10' games. I hate that comapny so much, not the employees, but the managers.

  • comthitnuong

    Posted Apr 30, 2006 8:06 pm PT

    how is sims 1st

  • jahoousa

    Posted Apr 30, 2006 5:34 pm PT

    I dunno about anybody else but I'm kinda First person'd out, including Oblivion (Which was cool untell I finished the main quest and the dark brotherhood quest). Can't wait til the next command and conquer comes out...... I'll be playing Civ. 4 til then

  • reconsoc

    Posted Apr 30, 2006 10:42 am PT

    Who plays the Sims? Talk about boring.

  • anamnawshad

    Posted Apr 30, 2006 8:14 am PT

    I don't play PC games anymore.......

  • Screamteam411

    Posted Apr 30, 2006 5:26 am PT

    Lol why are you guys arguing with what people buy? PC Game Consumers have spoken, and these are the top-10 games that they bought this week, end of story. None of this, "this should be on there," or "why isn't that on there"

  • yb125

    Posted Apr 30, 2006 3:21 am PT

    Come on the Add on is selling that well, it's just a few new objects. Oh well I love me some sim so it fine.

  • guardianlegend7

    Posted Apr 30, 2006 2:39 am PT

    Wow, there isn't a single action, adventure, or FPS game on there.

  • godovivel

    Posted Apr 30, 2006 2:12 am PT

    where is console sales GS ?????????????????

  • opium2k

    Posted Apr 29, 2006 9:03 pm PT

    give it a rest with the played out sims games already !!!

  • DarthVaderNDS

    Posted Apr 29, 2006 7:44 pm PT

    all of EA's games are doing the worst.

  • ajca

    Posted Apr 29, 2006 6:10 pm PT

    ...and WoW is still way up the the top bunch
    what an amazingly popular game.

  • MrNib

    Posted Apr 29, 2006 5:45 pm PT

    Pong should be #1 then Asteriods

  • terrabreak13

    Posted Apr 29, 2006 2:08 pm PT

    the Sims completely own the PC.

  • Link1515

    Posted Apr 29, 2006 2:05 pm PT

    Oblivion should be number 1

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