Lots o' random stuff, but mostly PC sales.

[Kitsune]

First, because I am a messenger of entertainment, some CMs for you:

http://tokyo.cool.ne.jp/p4-841/mawar...ario_01_15.mpg
http://tokyo.cool.ne.jp/p4-841/mawar...ario_02_15.mpg
http://www.playstation.jp/ch/cm/asx/cm_ac5.asx
http://www.douga.co.jp/pgps/cmn_pgps...cm_1000195+300
http://www.douga.co.jp/pgps/cmn_pgps...cm_1000194+300
http://www.suntory.co.jp/softdrink/d...izzle_300k.asx
http://www.suntory.co.jp/softdrink/d...eka15_300k.asx

August PC sales:

PC NPD Top 15 August 2004
1 PC SEAN TUDOR'S FLIGHT SIM MADNESS $3,045,590,758 2,912,834
2 PC DOOM 3 $20,727,140 387,463
3 PC THE SIMS DELUXE $572,639 29,024
4 PC MS AGE OF MYTHOLOGY $703,973 24,122
5 PC RISE OF NATIONS $820,936 23,623
6 PC SINGLES 2: SPUNKHEAD ON YOUR BUNKBED $815,342 22,809
7 PC THE SIMS MEGA DELUXE $812,739 22,281
8 PC MS ZOO TYCOON: COMPLETE COLLECTION $646,002 21,898
9 PC THE SIMS: MAKIN' MAGIC EXPANSION PACK $568,612 20,736
10 PC HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED $661,509 20,435
11 PC SAM & MAX: FUCK YOU THIS IS A BLANK DVD $543, 201 20,400
12 PC THE SIMS: SUPERSTAR EXPANSION PACK $435,592 20,364
13 PC STAR WARS: KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC $528,441 20,139
14 PC CITY OF HEROES $931,783 19,882
15 PC BATTLEFIELD VIETNAM $747,697 19,542
16 PC WARCRAFT III BATTLE CHEST $775,278 19,420
17 PC MARTHA STEWART'S MONSTER CLOSETS $723,543 19, 400
18 PC COUNTER STRIKE: CONDITION ZERO $712,170 19,367
19 PC CALL OF DUTY $726,941 18,875
20 PC ROME: TOTAL WHORE $800, 450 17,456

And because the same GA leak produced this, here you go, some Warcraft figures:



YTD
WARCRAFT III BATTLE CHEST $6,289,941 147,971
WARCRAFT III: FROZEN THRONE EXPANSION PACK $3,110,382 126,713
WARCRAFT III: REIGN OF CHAOS $1,873,263 59,061
WARCRAFT III: EXCLUSIVE GIFT SET $151,971 5,031
WARCRAFT III: REIGN OF CHAOS COLLECTOR'S ED $18,082 469
TOTAL YTD $11,443,639 339,245

LTD
WARCRAFT III: REIGN OF CHAOS $55,963,170 1,130,915
WARCRAFT III: FROZEN THRONE EXPANSION PACK $17,651,420 560,831
WARCRAFT III BATTLE CHEST $10,176,410 230,381
WARCRAFT III: REIGN OF CHAOS COLLECTOR'S ED $10,073,500 155,057
WARCRAFT III: EXCLUSIVE GIFT SET $3,896,084 71,020
TOTAL LTD $97,760,584 2,148,204

That never was answered, I don't think, BTW, is the 38 million for The Sims including expansions or not?

Also, its been confirmed that Kimishine is coming out at the launch of the DS. What's Kimishine? It is short for Kime no Tame Nara Shineru, or "I Would Die For You" Sega's new hot rabu-rabu game about a guy who follows a girl trying to get her to fall in love by using the DS's touch screen. Try "touching" the girl and other places on that website. Its a bit like The Bard's Tale website. Also, try here if you're totally lost: http://ds.ign.com/articles/554/554126p1.html

Challenge one: Through a ridiculous circumstance, you must rescue an assortment of marine animals that have been accidentally swallowed by one of the characters. By using the touch screen of the DS, you must push the fish around the stomach and try to force them up the esophagus before they escape down the "other end." The lower screen shows the quivering stomach, while the upper screen shows the creatures escaping out of the character's mouth when he "gags."

Oh yeah, the poll I can only afford one, since I'm givin' all my love to Dragon Quest VIII soon. Choose for me!

Lastly, No One Lives Forever kicks ass. That is all.

-Kitsune

[RickH]

Sean Tudor's Flight Sim Madness sold THREE BILLION dollars worth of units last month ? Was the Pentagon buying ?

[XPav]

Sean Tudor's Flight Sim Madness sold THREE BILLION dollars worth of units last month ??

Yeah, even with its broken snap rolls and the lack of a dynamic campaign...

Oh, and you could land the plane upside down.

[Brian Rucker]

SINGLES 2: SPUNKHEAD ON YOUR BUNKBED

Paging Sparky.

[Theodore Rex DX]

That is one tough poll. I can't decide. Whichever one you get, I'd appreciate some impressions.

That DS game looks great. US launch title too, apparently. The mini game where you have to blow into the mic to blow out some candles is clearly the work of a crazy genius. That's that, I'm buying a DS.

I can't tell which are the real sales figures. I can't believe anybody would subtitle their game 'Reign of Chaos', so I'm guessing you made that one up.

[Kitsune]

Oh crapola, the crayon company!

I never did get around to Paper Mario 2 impressions, and its releasing soon, I believe, so I'll have to whip some of those up pronto!

-Kitsune

[sluggo]

Well, aside from having 20 games in a top 15, I enjoyed these:

11 PC SAM & MAX: FUCK YOU THIS IS A BLANK DVD $543, 201 20,400
17 PC MARTHA STEWART'S MONSTER CLOSETS $723,543 19, 400
20 PC ROME: TOTAL WHORE $800, 450 17,456

[Kevin Grey]

Those Doom 3 numbers put things in perspective wrt to PC and Console sales. Fable sold in one week what it took Doom 3 one month to do and I would argue that Doom 3 was the more anticipated game wrt to its prospective platform.

[Wheelkick]

Well, aside from having 20 games in a top 15, I enjoyed these:

11 PC SAM & MAX: FUCK YOU THIS IS A BLANK DVD $543, 201 20,400
17 PC MARTHA STEWART'S MONSTER CLOSETS $723,543 19, 400
20 PC ROME: TOTAL WHORE $800, 450 17,456

I really liked #11

Where do you get these lists from Kitsune?

[Kevin Grey]

Where do you get these lists from Kitsune?

Someone over at Gaming-Age posted them.

[steve]

Those Doom 3 numbers put things in perspective wrt to PC and Console sales. Fable sold in one week what it took Doom 3 one month to do and I would argue that Doom 3 was the more anticipated game wrt to its prospective platform.

I wonder how many people worked on Fable, and how much all of those TV ads are costing.

Or to put things in another perspective, there's a chance DOOM 3 will make id and Activision more money than Fable will make its developer or publisher.

[Reed]

Those Doom 3 numbers put things in perspective wrt to PC and Console sales. Fable sold in one week what it took Doom 3 one month to do and I would argue that Doom 3 was the more anticipated game wrt to its prospective platform.

I wonder how many people worked on Fable, and how much all of those TV ads are costing.

Or to put things in another perspective, there's a chance DOOM 3 will make id and Activision more money than Fable will make its developer or publisher.

True true. How many worked on Doom3? Is id still at 16 employees?

[dogbert]

I wonder how many people worked on Fable, and how much all of those TV ads are costing.

The credits at the end of the game go on for a very long time.

[DeathMonkey]

Kitsume - I'd love to hear any new Fire Emblem or Paper Mario 2 details!

-Scott-

[Kevin Grey]

Those Doom 3 numbers put things in perspective wrt to PC and Console sales. Fable sold in one week what it took Doom 3 one month to do and I would argue that Doom 3 was the more anticipated game wrt to its prospective platform.

I wonder how many people worked on Fable, and how much all of those TV ads are costing.

Or to put things in another perspective, there's a chance DOOM 3 will make id and Activision more money than Fable will make its developer or publisher.

Oh, please don't think I'm saying Doom 3 is selling poorly or anything of the sort (ie PC gaming Doomed/Domed/whatever).

I'm just pointing out the gap between sales of hit console games and PC games. After Doom 3 the highest selling PC game sold 20K+ units. A typical month for consoles has several 100k+ sellers.

This clearly doesn't factor in additional advertising, licensing fees, higher budgets, etc that most console games have.

[Warlord of Mars]

You should buy this one, Kitsune:
SAM & MAX: FUCK YOU THIS IS A BLANK DVD

Or the XBox, whichever one is more readily available. :)

[Brian Rubin]

1 PC SEAN TUDOR'S FLIGHT SIM MADNESS $3,045,590,758 2,912,834

All hail the return of the mighty flight sim, the greatest genre in PC gaming!

[RickH]

Forgive me for being thick, but is Kuso Bokki a real game, or is it japanese for "shit, bonerz!"

[Sean Tudor]

1 PC SEAN TUDOR'S FLIGHT SIM MADNESS $3,045,590,758 2,912,834

All hail the return of the mighty flight sim, the greatest genre in PC gaming!

Well Pacific Fighters officially went gold today. :wink:

[Wobbo]

*dies laughing*

[steve]

I'm just pointing out the gap between sales of hit console games and PC games. After Doom 3 the highest selling PC game sold 20K+ units. A typical month for consoles has several 100k+ sellers.

All those 100K+ sellers aren't necessarily "hits" if their budgets are all significantly higher. Profits are way more important than total copies sold. In fact, I wish NPD would change its Top 10 to be listed by revenue instead of sales.

[Rob_Merritt]

Any word on how pc games are doing over all? I know I read something in April or May that at that point sales were the worse they've been in 10 years and if the trend continued that the genre would be far below a billion this year. However there were few release in the first have as it seems everything is coming out now. Has anyone revised sales forcasts?

[shang]

Forgive me for being thick, but is Kuso Bokki a real game, or is it japanese for "shit, bonerz!"

The latter.

[Ben Sones]

You should buy all three of them and send them to your favorite forum member

Just to clarify, I am your favorite forum member, by far.