<![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were... - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were... - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> warcraft and the sims. when did PC gaming become such a ghetto?

baccardi84

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> What the hell is diner dash, and why is such a crappy sounding game on a top 20 list?

Destrado

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Diner Dash is #6 WTF. There's even a Diner Dash 2, not to mention so many other clones out.

kftgr

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> @kyletothejones:

Sins wasn't released in January.

Strangelove

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> @wallapuctus:

Sins is awesome. It must be selling well, because I bought the last copy between 2 Gamestop/EB stores.

Strangelove

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> It's no wonder Epic wants to concentrate on console games. UT3 didn't even make the list.

RaepGoblin

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Orange Box made it on the list, so I'm all right with it. I'm noticing a sever lack of Sins of a Solar Empire though.

kyletothejones

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Diner Dash, woohoo! That game is scarily addictive. I didn't realize the Sims were still cranking out expansion packs and are still really popular ... trippy.

GamerBunny

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> these are retail sales. Orange Box and the like sell a lot over steam.

jiganto

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Orange Box didn't place?!

The Great Aussie Evil

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> It seems to me that Blizzard games and Sims games have dominated PC Top-Selling lists for some time now. I don't know if they've always been half of the top 20 or what, but their dominance isn't really surprising to me.

The fact that I can still buy Diablo and Warcraft II new in box is pretty astounding. Off the top of my head, I can think of only Neverwinter Nights and some Lucasarts games as comparably available. I wonder how publishers would fare if they released and supported some choice titles from their back catalog?

Shevek

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Yah, until Steam and NPD
team up, this list is borked.
Otherwise it would show
Audiosurf.




Sullyville

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> I tried Google AND Amazon, and nothing came up for "15000 games." Where does one purchase this?

topaz420

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Wow, Battlefield 2 and Age of Empires III are still both up there...

Heyyou27

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> STEAM doesn't release their sales data but I'm pretty sure everyone knows the top sellers would be COD4 and Orange Box. It would be interesting to know how other games are selling in STEAM.

Let's be honest, STEAM is the way to buy games now for the PC.

Tepoz

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> If you think about it, the USA alone has over 164,100,000 PC's. This covers every type of gamer imaginable. I don't see how a logical person would look at a PC games sales list that doesn't include digital distribution and be suprised at the games purchased.

Also, games have a much longer life on the PC than on consoles. Just look at number 13. Battlefield 2 is over a year old. Even though I think UT3 is a poor game, I would not be suprised to see it on this list next year.

A good example of the complexety of PC gaming is people who play simulations. This is an entire subculture of people that have high end machines, and all they do is play flight and racing sims. I think that is great, but the games they buy won't show up on a top selling list.

My point is on the consoles, most everyone will pick up a big title like MGS4, or Gears2. On the PC the majority of gamers don't play FPS, so they just won't purchase that game. The market is divided between many genres and it really always has been. That does not mean PC gaming is dead.

homernoy

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> I really hope the Medieval 2 Total War Gold Edition is on there for February. Hot damn but I still love that game...

smitty1123

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Maybe Sins will show up in February's chart. I went to buy it yesterday and it was sold out, so I ended up paying $10 more for the digital download.

And here I was swearing up and down I was done with PC gaming.

wallapuctus

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Yeah, from what I heard and read there wasn't anything in UT3 to make me play it over 04.

But then, millions of people buy Madden EVERY YEAR, so I dunno what to say.

GhaleonUnlimited

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> If PC gaming is dead, I'm a nercophiliac.

ErskinPig

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Tour of the Blizzard studios:

"Here's our pool, it's filled with money, we love swimming in it."

"On 'Wacky Fridays' you can wear a crazy hat... but it has to be made out of money."

"Uhhhh, there was no toilet paper in the bathroom." "Yeah, we know, we use money."

"Hey Bob, nice tie. Is that money?"

Ryadic

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Why do you need UT3 when Team Fortress 2 exists?

tincow

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Everybody still plays Half-Life (CS):
[archive.gamespy.com]


arcum

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Ah, now I remember why PC gaming is dead.

DankPanties

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Most of the game I have buy are not on that list. No having digital downlod numbers is not a flaw: make the list almost pointless (to me).

Tei

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> @sirsonik:
Agreed, this was one hell of a good marketing solution, and yet it isn`t taken into consideration here. Shame on you, pc chart.


Phibius

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> @mx5geek:
"These PC NPD statistics dont mean shit anymore." freaking seconded. PC gaming is in good health, and great games are sold for the platform - over the internet and via digital sales.

@Martinmas:
no demo + pirated version hard to get working + no ability to buy through steam = nobody is going to try it

Akin

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> @Sureshot: Maybe thats why you can't find it ;)

Harteex

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> There's a UT3?

Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> @SeeOne: Let the record show that Gamestop does not take PC games in as trade items.

Also, stop being bitter. Get used to borderline monopolies. They're everywhere.

F'real.

atowncalledparis

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> @Erwin: Dude. My girlfriend and I bought that game for her mom, and it has like, 500 versions of mahjong, no fucking lie. XD

atowncalledparis

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Uhmm what do you mean RTS? World of Warcraft Battle Chest is the original WoW game plus Burning Crusade with a bunch of guide books. Warcraft Battle chest is the compilation of the RTS games. It's on blizzard's website if you want to check too.

Ajh

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> How did 15000 games sell so much? I can't find it anywhere!

Sureshot

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> @SeeOne: More like console publishers are going to add DRM to the media so we can't swap games at all. Remember, every time a someone plays a game and they publishers aren't paid, its killing the industry. PC-like DRM on consoles? If it isn't beat down on the PC front, it might just expand onto consoles. Ebay might just be "worse" than GS since we're not supporting the retail side of the industry.

Leanid

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Is it wrong to hate people who play WoW but haven't at least played WC3? I find it similar to people who went to see the LOTR movies without reading the books.

Friedgold89

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> 15000 Games!? What a bargain!

Roller

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Would like to see the chart including digital sales. Buying games retail is so old school. Like buying music and movies.

kyosen

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> @the-hypnotoad: Are you calling Age of Empires III a budget title? :(

Neo Deus

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> @Albrot:
OB on PC is being purchased on STEAM if you're a PC Gamer, not in retail, so it won't show on this list. According to Valve, it's selling the most on PC, no need to worry.

dozerking

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Hmm....Not sure if these lists mean much on PC. We know that the OB is selling like hotcakes on PC, much more so than the console versions, yet it's not making a huge presence on this list at all. Just another reason why the NPD is sorely lacking on this side of the aisle.

Sins should top out the list next month, as it's already sold 100k in about 3 weeks, but they have their own DD store on their website which won't be counted on this list, either way, excellent numbers for such a small developer, loving the game.

dozerking

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Man, I never thought I'd see Orange Box fall all the way to 15,011th place within its first year of release.

Albrot

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Man, screw all this UT3 hating.

I'll admit, I have the game, and I was greatly disappointed, the way I was disappointed with UT03. Hopefully Rein will fix the game though the way they did UT03 with UT04, and release a decent version. Original UT & UT04 were the shit.

StevenRafael

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> LOL @ UT3

Covert_Knight

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> @SeeOne:
Yeah I know, they're making tons of money ripping kids off.

slickchris7777

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> This list is fairly broken if you dont count digital distro. Sure, i bought Half-life 2 and episode 1 in the store, but i decided to go the digital way for orange box since it got me TF2 beta and playing the game right at midnight east coast time while i was on the west coast.

sirsonik

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> @boopadoo:

I'd wager Gamestop will continue to be the place where gamers swap used games with each other, while making GS rich.

Buy game for $60, sell it back for $30
Next gamer buys it for $55

GS makes more money off of one used game sale than they do from 5 new game sales. No wonder their stores look like a garage sale.

I wish gamers would learn how to use ebay, and we'd all be better off.

Juminatriascala

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> UT3 not even in the top 20? Ouch.

darthmole12

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> @mx5geek:

Its stupid to think that the future of PC gaming will be anything but online with digital distribution.

SSSSHHHHHHHH! We don't want to rile the pirates!

Juminatriascala

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> These PC NPD statistics dont mean shit anymore.

I'm a pretty hardcore pc gamer (i.e. fairly regularly upgrade components myself to play the latest games) and I have bought a PC game from a store in longer than i can remember. BF2 was probably the last one I got and that was when it came out.

But I've purchased heaps of stuff on steam since then... and probably would've bought more if the other companies got their games on it... Crysis I'm looking at you!!

Its stupid to think that the future of PC gaming will be anything but online with digital distribution.

mx5geek

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> @xMaverick: I Heartily Agree.

Power_Wrist

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> @Adamk24: These are January NPD numbers (it's even clearly stated in the title). The article you referenced is for one week out of February.

Struct09

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Surprised The Witcher is not up there.

Martinmas

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> This makes me afraid for PC gaming. Too much WoW, not enough Orange Box. I hope Age of Conan can release Blizzard's stranglehold on MMORPGs. I guess a lot of people just like to play mah jong and 20 different kinds of Solitare on their computers.

Sap_My_Sentry

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> I fail to see how any inferences on the relative health of PC gaming could be made from this. All it indicates is that the usual nonsense is being purchased en masse by the vulgar masses. What's more, games like Diner Dash and The Sims aren't as likely to figure prominently into digital download statistics as, say, The Orange Box.

"Wow. UT3 is nowhere. What happened? Was it marketed that badly, or do people really not want it?"

Well, I'm not losing much sleep over its failure. I think this is one of those cases where a mediocre game reaps only as much as it deserves.

Leviticus

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> So wait according to this, Sins of a Solar Empire was #1 (atleast for gamasutra) last week, and now a week later they are not even in the top 20?

[forums.sinsofasolarempire.com]

I find something screwy with this list for reasons other than this too...

Adamk24

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> @Sober:

Sins was released in February. This is for January. It should be at or near the top for this month.

labrats5

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Whoa! And they say PC gaming is dead! What a load of BS!

Sarcasm aside, maybe there IS no reason to unwrap that new G15 keyboard....back to the store for you!

Maximus9

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> @Sober:
Didn't Sins come out in February? Or maybe I just didn't find it until February. Regardless, it's a great game.

CrustaceanFreak

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> @Bluecell: Hahaha, yeah man, can't deal with crap like World of Warcraft. I'm just sticking to COD4 (PC) and my other Steam-based games, TF2, Audiosurf, CS:S, HL:2 1 and 2, Stalker, UT3, Bioshock, and then there's my PS3 + hAcked PSP Combo :)

To be honest, and anyone can bash me on this one, I played Ragnarok Online since Alpha and played for a good 5 more years. Made 2 champions and a really kick ass Gunslinger...

But now I couldn't care less.

xMaverick

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> I would wager that the Orange Box would be in the top 5 if digital sales were included.

mva5580

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Diner Dash is #6...good God what has PC gaming come to..

grayfx007

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Looks like the Target/Walmart software lineup. Aw man, that sucks. First the toy industry, and now the software industry is going to get fewer venues of distribution. I'm going to predict Gamestop is going to branch out to an E-rated store, like a BabiesRUs for games. Get ready.

boopadoo

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> BF2 must have had some big sales or something.

Hand_O_Death

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> @Morberis: Luckily the demo is out in a bit, if what they say is true that the demo is one month after release, then I can see if I like it.

Sober

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> @Katorok: Both of the above

Luke Plunkett

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> @Sober:

Might be the lack of a demo, sales on Stardocks digital distrib system, or lack of supply.

Morberis

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> The elderly LOVE WoW, more then the Wii.

I bet with all my heart my 95 year old Grandma would like WoW more then Wii Sports.

Sailorcancer

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> @Bluecell: gosh! how many people still DON'T have this game?

amost

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> @mikevanpwn: The mod scene for SimCity 4 is waaay cooler, and all the stuff from 4 years ago still looks awesome today.

The only standout here is Crysis, otherwise everything else you can run on a relatively dated PC no problemo, not that I don't mind upgrading for a game, but that hasn't come along yet to warrant it for me.

But the weird thing is where is Sins? Did it just sell well for the first couple weeks (an I go to EB sold out) and then just nothing? Personally I'm still waiting on the demo

Sober

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> @Katorok: Dude, he said it right up there in the article description. "Of course, this doesn't count things like digital delivery, but a compromised chart's better than no chart at all, amiright?"

greeble

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Where's Guardian Heroes, Typing of the Dead, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Samba De Amigo, or Shenmue... oh that's right... everyone hated SEGA so they failed... :(

KingDavid73

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Where's The Experiment (aka Experience 112) in all of this? Best VOYEURAN game ever, IMO

unangbangkay

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Orange Box SHOULD HAVE BEEN NUMBER 2 AT LEAST.. GAH, either they didn't include the digital downloads, or everyone bought the game up back when it came out..

Katorok

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> @NitrousO: there is no sim city 5. Sim city societies really is a spin off from the sim city (insert # here) line. Im sure they'll come up with the fifth one soon enough.

BryanGuitarDude

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Wait, Age of Empires III is on this list? Is it really that dire for PC gaming that it's WoW, the Sims, a couple of sorta-new releases, and a bunch of budget titles? Yikes.

the-hypnotoad

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Lots of WoW and Sim games up there, but I am surprised that Crysis beat out Orange Box. Also I thought Orange Box had a good amount of games in them, but you can't beat 15000 O_O - unless of course that's not what it is. Feel free to correct me.

goldwings

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> very interesting to see sim city 4 up on that list. its nice seeing older games are still selling strong.

BryanGuitarDude

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> @Lixie: a bunch of games on one cd(basically quantity over quality).

and ut3 really needs a demo or something(idk if PC has a demo or not)

kickass solo

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Surprised to see pirates of the burning sea up there. However, I feel steam is the future of PC gaming, and i am more interested in it's sales... I mean, 15k games is #7, what does that tell you about the normal PC retail market.

K-Squad! (Badass Edition)

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> @amost: I guess people are still jumping on the bandwagon.

@xMaverick: I know what you mean, I went through a stretch where I was really tired of anything fantasy or sci-fi. I just wanted to be a regular human killing other regular humans. So I played Counter-Strike. For years.

Bluecell

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> I wish I could still PC game, but at least the only games on this list that I would play are also on the 360 (i.e. CoD4 and the Orange Box).

peAr nectAr

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Why don't they just call it the Warcraft and The Sims sales charts?

I mean, they make up half of the top 20 anyways.

Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> @_Ted_: Explains why they are an entire division of EA.

NitrousO

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> BWAHAHA Simcity 4 is selling better than Simcity 5 even though its so much older. Lets hope EA gets the hint and returns Simcity to the way it was (and make Simcity's new direction a spinoff to keep casual players happy).

NitrousO

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> 6 sim's games wow that was surprising.

_Ted_

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Sim City 4 still holding on! Wooo!

mikevanpwn

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Pirates of the Burning Sea? Nice. I bought that at launch, still find it pretty amusing. I'm glad it's at least selling.

thewafflecult

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Disappointed to see Simcity Societies on there... and really surprised to see that battlechest so high - proof that good games beat good looking games.

Morberis

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Oh, I sure hope 15000 Games has AT LEAST 200 versions of Mah Jong or no deal.

Erwin

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> What's 15000 games? Off to Google....

Lixie

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Not saying that Crysis is bad, just you know...the requirements.

Saint Anima

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Wow, to think UT3 is getting such a cold reception still.

okenny :)

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Wow. UT3 is nowhere. What happened? Was it marketed that badly, or do people really not want it? Even Crysis is up there.

Saint Anima

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> Goddamn I hate world of warcraft.

Much less I'm just sick of human vs. monster mmorpg's... (which pretty much rules out all of them?)

xMaverick

]]> <![CDATA[The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were...]]> 3. World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest :O

amost

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