NPD weekly PC game sales chart
SimCity 4 brings The Sims' reign to an end as it shoots straight to the top of the PC game sales chart.
The latest weekly PC game sales chart from NPD saw new release SimCity 4 taking the number-one position and forcing The Sims Deluxe and The Sims: Unleashed down to positions two and three, respectively.
Elsewhere, movement in the chart involved little more than a slight shuffling of positions within the top 10, although the reentry of Battlefield 1942 and the arrival of SimCity 4 pushed Medal of Honor Allied Assault: Spearhead and The Sims Online off the chart altogether.
Best-selling PC games for the week of January 12-18, 2003:
Rank / Title / Publisher / Average Price
1 / SimCity 4 / EA / $49
2 / The Sims Deluxe / EA / $43
3 / The Sims: Unleashed / EA / $29
4 / Zoo Tycoon / Microsoft / $28
5 / Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets / EA / $28
6 / RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 / Infogrames / $29
7 / Warcraft III / Vivendi / $45
8 / Age of Mythology / Microsoft / $44
9 / Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania / Microsoft / $29
10 / Battlefield 1942 / EA / $46
The list above ranks games according to retail sales. To see a list of games ranked according to GameSpot review score, visit our
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