StarCraft 2 sales blitz a success: sales crush console games

There may be some flaws in StarCraft 2, but the market doesn't seem to care: the game has taken the number one sales slot in the United States in July, well above the best-selling console games. In fact, if you take the sales of NCAA Football 11 on both platforms and combine them, you get 692,000 units sold. Single-platform title StarCraft 2 sold 721,000 units.

[SeanRL]

Pathetic flamebait title is pathetic.

Congrats though, good game.

[Cueil]

considering we're likely to see at least two game add a zero on the end of that for first week sales

[InfectedDK]

Well how many games sell that well for PC then? I see games all the time sell well on consoles.. The reason some few games sell well is that they are the only ones surviving..

The games that sell well for PC is Blizzard games the most..
But you see games like Sims, Diablo, WoW, StarCraft and some others sell well everytime.. But new IP's on PC doesn't sell well often though the game may be a great game.. Some does but not so many.. That's what I think.. Games sell better on consoles..

[faraany3k]

Dude look at ur ALAN WAKE, CRACKDOWN,FORZA,UNCHATRTED...t hese are exclusives that sell shit. U know even Stalker on PC sold more then Alan wake and crackdown. The problem is lack of awareness. And console only sell few titles like HALO, something from ROCKSTAR and a few sequels of old gen.

[God_Of_Epicness]

Uncharted 1 sold 3.5 million along with Uncharted 2. Killzone 2 sold 2.5 million. Halo 3 sold 13 million. Gears of War 2 sold 5.8 million. Gears of War 1 sold 6 million! GT4 sold 12 million! GT1 sold 10 million! GT3 sold 14 million! MGS4 sold 5 million! Need i go on?

Only PC games sell well right? The only thing that bulks the sales on the console division is HALO!

/s

Funny how you mentioned Uncharted, cos you don't know how much the name "Uncharted" can sell, my friend.

[Gago]

with all due respect to SC2, its nothing compared to MW2, Halo, GT, Mario ect sales

[kraze07]

Ummm how long have those games been out?

[lace]

Kraze I don't see what you are trying to prove, the list of games Gago presented are both older and younger then Starcraft's franchise history.

[kraze07]

My point is SC2 hasn't even been out for a month and it already has sold a large number of copies. What I forgot to point out was that MW2, and the first 2 Halo games are multiplat while SC2 is selling so much as a PC exclusive.

[Baka-akaB]

Mario , halo , gt or some other exclusives do as good if not better at release too , even if you wanted to exclude multiplatform games .

[God_Of_Epicness]

The problem is...there was an article the other day that said Starcraft 2's sales in the first day will be more than MW2's. That's a bold claim and as proven, it is not true. I hate hypocrites.

[Gago]

first day sales alone from those games are much higher than SC2 :\

[PopEmUp]

You guys play sale, I play games deal? :D

[kraze07]

First day sales may have been higher for those other games but it still hasn't been over a month since the game was released and already SC2's sales are estimated to be over 11 million.

Anways PopEmUp is right I don't play sales, I play games. I was just giving SC2 the credit it deserves.

[avengers1978]

A highly anticapated Console game usually sells like 2 million first day, wait till games like Cod, AC:Brotherhood, Reach, GT5 comeout and you'll see.
Starcraft 2 was highly anticapated and didn't even make it to a million.

[faraany3k]

DUDE the sale figures you are seeing are just for AMERICA alone and that to of only RETAIL. Half of them come from digital downloads. Plus starcraft 2 is the most pirated game of the year. You dont know the extent of its owesomeness. Go play HALO rip off every year.

[Newtype]

It has only been 5-6 years, and Korea's yearly sporting event....

[DORMIN]

I Lol'd at title. Nice flamebait.

Why are they saying it like SC2 wasn't going to be a best seller. Its f*cking Starcraft part 2.

[Alos88]

The scary thing is that this is both this year's most pirated PC game AND the best selling PC game of the year so far. That's a lot of players!

[Sez]

I just pick this game up on saturday. This is by far one of the best RTS game I played by far I've played for my pc.it definately deserves the sales. Can't wait to get off work and play it when I get home. Great game IMO

[Veneno]

So why do Pc enthusiasts need to boast starcraft sales? to spite the console fanboys? It should be obvious to everyone that Pc is as relevant as ever and always will be. Pc ppl really don.t need to enter the bickering of the cnsole fanboys. it's just silly.

[Baka-akaB]

Apprently some insecure pc fanboys were afraid sc2 wouldnt sell that much ...

Duh it's blizzard , it's starcraft , one of the biggest franchise of the world regardless of platforms

[dredgewalker]

As much as I'm happy playing with Starcraft 2, I really want to play the next installment of the series now!! I loved the single player campaign, but I also love the story and I can't wait to find out what happens now after the Wings of Freedom campaign.

[kraze07]

Title may be flamebait but it's no different than all the articles about Sony games selling better than their xbox versions, or those about how Xbox exclusives sell better than Sony exclusives or even those about the DS selling better than the PSP.

[Calm Down Sunshine]

Now get to work on fixing the marine/marauder rushes and you'll have an outstanding game.

[tiamat5]

When you don't have much variety or number of good games within a long period of time of course the few good games you have eill sell well. Halo Reach will sell well because was one of the few exclusive games 360 people had this year and will for a while. Mario still sells well as a platformer because it is basically the only platformer on the Wii. And Starcraft is one of the few exclusive titles worth mentioning for PC this year so of course it sold well. In short, if you had more titles and genres to choose from these games wouldn't sell so many at one time because you would have several games to choose from. Now go ahead an disagree with me but it's the harsh trurh. It's why some games didn't do well on the PS2 despite the fact that they were great games.