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Spore Creature Creator tops PC game sales
Lydia Sung - Monday, June 30th, 2008 | 10:31AM (PT) 0 Like Favourites (0)


Age of Conan knocked to third place

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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:

  1. Spore Creature Creator (EA)
  2. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe (EA)
  3. Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures (Eidos)
  4. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack (Vivendi)
  5. World Of Warcraft (Vivendi)
  6. World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest (Vivendi)
  7. The Sims 2 FreeTime Expansion Pack (EA)
  8. The Sims 2 Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Stuff Expansion Pack (EA)
  9. Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision)
  10. 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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  • 0 thumbs!
    kspiess since Jun 2007 | Jun 30, 08
    Ya it is sort of surprising to see the Sims Double Deluxe out selling AoC.
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    RabidChinaGirl since Oct 2007 | Jun 30, 08
    I guess Sims is like the layman's MMO.. appeals to more people than a game like AoC would.
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    bruceleethree since Nov 2005 | Jun 30, 08
    Will Wright = Video Game's Bill Gates.
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    JT gAnGstA since Apr 2007 | Jul 1, 08
    Imagine how much the finished game will sell.
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    Dark Dom since May 2004 | Jul 1, 08
    I know why this is. The Creature Creator is extremely cheap, and already demonstrates how amazing the final game will look. And if people don't like the creature creator, what's there to lose? It was only $15 (NZD for me)
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