sims can be good but world of warcraft is just better sims is too simple wow has a great story ..
PC game charts: January 21-27
By
Brendan Sinclair, Senior Editor
World of Warcraft and its Burning Crusade expansion top the charts as The Sims 2 continues racking up sales.
Burning Crusade and World of Warcraft reigned atop the industry-tracking NPD Group's weekly sales charts as the best-selling PC games for the week of January 21 to 27, with the recently released expansion continuing to draw interest from a fan base that purchased 2.4 million copies in the game's first 24 hours of availability.
Backing Vivendi's gruesome massively multiplayer twosome on the charts is another cash-cow/expansion pair, The Sims 2 and The Sims 2: Pets, in third and fourth place, respectively. The life-simulating games from Electronic Arts are followed in fifth place by a more militaristic effort from the publisher, the futuristic first-person shooter Battlefield 2142.
Leading off the back half of the top 10 in sixth place is the game based on Howie Mandel's latest paying gig, the TV game show Deal or No Deal. The similarly casual puzzle game Bejeweled 2 closed off the top 10, with hardcore strategy and simulation efforts from Microsoft and Sega filling the spaces in between.
Chart us_pc_sales for date 2007-02-07 15:20:18
By
Brendan Sinclair, Senior Editor
Brendan Sinclair has been a games journalist since 1999. His tastes are eclectic, though he has a definite affinity for games with arcade roots. He's Canadian, but has also been at home in Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, and San Francisco.
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I don't have it I pay more then enf for games Look good but I will wat for C&C3 it's better.
Only games in that chart that I like are Medieval Total War 2 (If they ever bring out another patch for it to fix two-handed weapons on un-nerf archers so the English and Danish will actually be useful again) and Sims 2. I don't like the BF series and games that you have to pay £15 a month for aren't something that i really care about when that money could go on something useful. like better games. And Deal or No Deal....What the hell? They made a game where you sit around for an hour opening boxes with numbers on them? Please don't tell me this is what people in America like because if it is I'm glad there is several thousand miles of water between the UK and US.
"I really think they should separate casual games and hardcore games into two lists." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- yb125: And how would you define these two categories?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Easy. You have the Publishers of the Games define each game they are releasing as to whether it's "Casual" or "Advanced". (More Catered to the Hardcore Gamer). Just by looking at this list, All would be considered "Advanced" except for Bejeweled 2 Deluxe, Deal or No Deal, Sims 2, and Sims 2 Pets. That's four spots that have bumped off quality games that deserve to be listed. Charging 10 to 20 bucks for a casual game and counting them against 30 to 50 dollar games isn't fair to games like NWN2(for example) when they could still be selling very well for all we know. It's pretty simple to understand. It's like showing the the top 10 ten selling restaurants according to sales, meanwhile McDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's are all at the top while the good restaurants that are on a higher quality scale are never given recognition on a top 10 list. Makes no sense. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For the console fanboys, don't get your panties in a bunch, Deal or No Deal made the list, but probably sold like hotcakes and as I said before, should be on a separate list. Being that everyone just about has a computer, it isn't hard to figure out that a game like that will have extreme mass appeal. Spare me the friggin "PC is in trouble" BS. And for anyone comparing mods on the PC vs. mods on a Console is off their rocker and needs to get some medication. UT3 for the PS3 is the only game I have seen that says they will allow mods, but we'll see about that. Total conversion mods will still not be allowed.
2142 rules! I'm surprised it's still on the charts. For some reason I thought it wasn't that popular. I need a better PC for 64 player servers though.. gets chuggy!
What is Age of Empires III doing on there? That game wasn't even that good in 2005 why is it selling now? No price break either, they still charge $50 for it.
Great list, people often forget that everyone owns a pc. So ofcourse some games are not going to be the same as the "hardcore" consoles. Fact that Medieval 2: Total war and Battlefield 2142 are doing so good means the pc world is far from dieing. Just wait for Quake Wars and Supreme Commander. To the people who are all thrilled about the mods for the consoles. He was talking about Oblivion and is it possible to add user made mods to oblivion? This is a question and not an arguement.
It seems that Pc games have gotten abandoned. I mean if bejeweled and deal or no deal can make the list, you know there's something wrong.
Frikkin kids with they frikkin mmos. It's so boring, kill lil' mosnter, level up, kill monster, level up, kill big monster, level up, kill gigantic monster, level up, kill the entire f* planet, level the f* up.
I must say that BF2142 is still doing well enough to be in the top 10 (and not just) since launch.
"nmandude If it weren't for these games, the PC people would have nothing left to talk about. Welcome to the Console world folks! Yeah, cause Oblivion is "So" much better on the 260 and ps3. You don't have to worry about mods, expansions, glitches being fixed, or anything like that." For an Xbox fan, you don't seem to know much about consoles, do you? Like you don't know mod, expansions, glitches being fixed (patches), or anything like that are on the 360 for a year and now on every next-gen consoles. You know, it's kinda like, everywhere: Call of Duty 2 getting patched/map packs on 360 so is Lost Planet, 360 & PS3 getting firmware updates, etc.
nmandude If it weren't for these games, the PC people would have nothing left to talk about. Welcome to the Console world folks! Yeah, cause Oblivion is "So" much better on the 260 and ps3. You don't have to worry about mods, expansions, glitches being fixed, or anything like that. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can get patches and expansions on consoles just as downloads (assuming you have a hard drive). In fact, you can even run mods on some games: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_Tournament_3#Content_creation "In an interview with Gamasutra, Tim Sweeney revealed that the Playstation 3 version of UT3 will support user mods, created on PCs and downloadable to the console.[9]" I'm assuming that's valid for the 360 too as this article was before the 360 was announced.
na rpg's are the most boring genre imo. Have fun paying monthly for a game, and ...not being able to touch it if you dont pay hahaha.
If it weren't for these games, the PC people would have nothing left to talk about. Welcome to the Console world folks! Yeah, cause Oblivion is "So" much better on the 260 and ps3. You don't have to worry about mods, expansions, glitches being fixed, or anything like that.
I wonder how much higher can WoW sells rise when something new happens? Either way both WoW & Sims 2 arre great games.
If it weren't for these games, the PC people would have nothing left to talk about. Welcome to the Console world folks!
"I really think they should separate casual games and hardcore games into two lists." And how would you define these two categories?
Hmm, I might buy Deal or No Deal for my mom if it's in there with the big boys. *surprised*
World of Warcraft is a great game but there are many folk that just don't like it. Then there are many that just hate on a product because of its popularity. It's like if it ain't niche enough it's crap. Stroke that ego.
I really think they should separate casual games and hardcore games into two lists. I think this would give us a much better outlook as to whats going on.
WoW Rocks, all these haters don't know a good game or are so jaded they won't give it a chance. If you like MMO games, you will love WoW. I used to be a bit of a hater myself then I got a gaming PC and played it, I was a fool, it's a fantastic game and deserves the praise and sales. Stop being haters, the game is awesome give it a chance. -WPack911
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