Monday, June 30, 2008

Spore Creature Creator tops PC game sales

Spore Creature Creator tops PC game sales

Less than two weeks ago, data showed that Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures was the U.S.'s favorite PC game.  If nothing else, consumers were obviously curious enough about the hype to pick up a copy and put Age of Conan at number one.  In fact, AoC recently hit 700,000 subscribers, which is quite an achievement (despite WoW's ten million).

As of this last week, with June 21 as the cut off point, the Spore Creature Creator is now at the top of U.S. PC game sales, with Sims 2 comfortably camping second.  EA must be so pleased with themselves.

It isn't all that surprising, with EA announcing last week that the Creature Creator's popularity spawned over a million Spore creatures within the first week of the feature's availability.

The complete list, compliments of GamesIndustry.biz, is as follows:

Spore Creature Creator (EA)The Sims 2 Double Deluxe (EA)Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures (Eidos)World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack (Vivendi)World Of Warcraft (Vivendi)World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest (Vivendi)The Sims 2 FreeTime Expansion Pack (EA)The Sims 2 Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Stuff Expansion Pack (EA)Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision)Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures (LucasArts)

No actual sales figures were provided, but based on the Spore Creature Creator's popularity, EA is probably expecting the game to do exceptionally well upon release.  If Sims is any indication, Will Wright obviously knows what he's doing.




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