Friday, June 15th 2012
Diablo 3 Tops Sales Charts for May
The games market went to Hell in May. Diablo III topping retail software sales for the month, according to the latest sales figures from NPD, and helped fuel a resurgence in the PC games space. Other top performers included Max Payne 3, which launched the same day as Diablo III, as well as Sniper Elite V2 and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier.
While action titles continued their dominance of the top 10, 2K Sports' NBA 2K12 held the fifth spot for the second straight week. Blizzard continued to show its impact in the PC market with Diablo III at number 1, the first time since July 2010 that a PC-only title has accomplished that feat. The game that did it in 2010? StarCraft 2, another Blizzard mainstay.
Total video game sales continued to shrink, down 28 percent from last year. However, the PC market jumped 230 percent from the same time last year to $80 million, fueled by Diablo III sales. The overall spend in May, including digital sales and microtransactions was estimated to be $1.17 billion.
Here is the full list:
Top 10 Games (New Physical Retail only; across all platforms including PC)
Diablo III (PC)
Max Payne 3 (360, PS3, PC)
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier (360, PS3)
Prototype 2 (360, PS3)
NBA 2K12 (360, PS3, Wii, PSP, PS2, PC)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (360, PS3, Wii, PC)
Sniper Elite V2 (360, PS3)
Battlefield 3 (360, PS3, PC)
Dragon's Dogma (360, PS3)
Just Dance 3 (Wii, 360, PS3)
Major titles that have dropped off the list from last month include Mass Effect 3, Kinect Star Wars and The Witcher 2.
While action titles continued their dominance of the top 10, 2K Sports' NBA 2K12 held the fifth spot for the second straight week. Blizzard continued to show its impact in the PC market with Diablo III at number 1, the first time since July 2010 that a PC-only title has accomplished that feat. The game that did it in 2010? StarCraft 2, another Blizzard mainstay.
Total video game sales continued to shrink, down 28 percent from last year. However, the PC market jumped 230 percent from the same time last year to $80 million, fueled by Diablo III sales. The overall spend in May, including digital sales and microtransactions was estimated to be $1.17 billion.
Top 10 Games (New Physical Retail only; across all platforms including PC)
Diablo III (PC)
Max Payne 3 (360, PS3, PC)
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier (360, PS3)
Prototype 2 (360, PS3)
NBA 2K12 (360, PS3, Wii, PSP, PS2, PC)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (360, PS3, Wii, PC)
Sniper Elite V2 (360, PS3)
Battlefield 3 (360, PS3, PC)
Dragon's Dogma (360, PS3)
Just Dance 3 (Wii, 360, PS3)
Major titles that have dropped off the list from last month include Mass Effect 3, Kinect Star Wars and The Witcher 2.
65 Comments on Diablo 3 Tops Sales Charts for May
FINALLY LAN's!
I've been telling them about the glory of PC gaming but nooooo...
One was like "We didn't listen!"
60$ for a game is not the same for people earning 600$/month and 6000$/month. So please, let's not generalize things here...
I'm ready to play some Diablo 3... The family and I are at the beach and have been for the past week. My little Dell D620 with it's little nv110 wont play D3.. But i do have diablo 2 installed on it and have been playing it some... not a lot we have been in the pool... hehehe or I mean the lazy river... lol it's great.. I don't even have to paddle..lol for some reason floating on an air tube and drinking beer is very stress free... lol oh back to subject... I can't wait for prototype 2! If anyone hasn't played the first one then you need too... Welp got to run.. I have a shallow pool of water with a current calling me with the force of beer! :toast: :rockout:If you can not afford the game.. How can you say it is crappy?
Prices today seem to drop quickly, so I buy new a lot of the time - it's just happens to be 6 months after release :)
Blizzard games may not drop to crazy low prices like games from other developers but they will drop. That's when I'd like to pick up D3, not because I think the current price isn't worth it (it is), but because I have some other games I'd like to get through. Currently that game is Fallout: New Vegas. It can be picked up for under $20 right now, or under $40 for the Ultimate edition. Not your cup of tea? Many many other great games available for cheap (and they run well on lesser video cards/CPUs).
I've got about 175 hours in (due to being home sick a lot at the moment), so that means I'm right now at about 35¢ an hour for my D3 entertainment.
The only thing I can think of that's cheaper is sitting on the deck watching the bug zapper ... but that requires copious amounts of beer which substantially increases the per hour price.
@Prima : So wait until it comes down in price or try to win a copy in a TPU game contest if one pops up. Always more than one way to skin a cat. :toast:
@TMM : I still have a bunch of stuff for your Barbarian. ;)
I already bought the game, played, and I think it was a waste of money
@Postman
Easy to talk, when you are not living in countries that the average income is less than 500$...
I still think the game sucks tbh.. diablo 2 had me forever.. This game bored me to tears day 1..
The only people who care are RMT's.. That's all the game is good for imo.. Yay log on find someting and try to sell it.. That's not a game, that's ebay..
@ D007 as for performance, blizzard wants their games to be played by the majority of computers. They have figured out you get more players when you're not targeting enthusiasts who already have $400 graphics cards. I was surprised to find my late 2010 MacBook Air was able to run the game well enough to be called playable, despite being just a 1.8ghz core 2 duo, 4gb ddr3 1066, and geforce 320m. Even modern IGPs like Intels HD 3000 will do playable framerates at a decent resolution. AMD's APUs are ideal actually. So basically, any modern laptop or desktop you buy today should be able to play the game, even if you don't know how to properly research things. So while it's hardly as graphically intensive as Battlefield 3, the vast majority of people who buy the game wont need to do any upgrades to play it. Though anyone wanting to max it out and play their native resolution might need to, you'll want at something above a GTS 450 to do that and manage more than 30fps.