{"id":3670,"date":"2009-03-18T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"weekly-pc-sales-chart-for-first-week-of-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/3670-weekly-pc-sales-chart-for-first-week-of-march","title":{"rendered":"Weekly PC sales Chart for first week of March"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below is a list of the USA’s top selling PC game titles for the beginning of March. The list includes  the top ten retail sales as well as Direct2Drives’s top ten.<\/p>\n

NPD Retail sales (3\/1 – 3\/7)<\/strong><\/p>\n

1.    Empire: Total War– Its hardly surprising that Creative Assembly’s historical real time strategy title debuts at number one for the week.<\/p>\n

2.    World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King – The expansion pack for the world’s biggest MMO gets knocked from its number one spot. It’ll be back.<\/p>\n

3.    Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning – Mythic’s MMO sees a rise in popularity as a result of its price reduction.<\/p>\n

4.     The Sims 2 Double Deluxe<\/p>\n

5.    Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War II – Read our review<\/a><\/p>\n

6.    The Sims Carnival<\/p>\n

7.    Empire: Total War – Special Forces Edition<\/p>\n

8.    Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 Premier Edition<\/p>\n

9.    World of Warcraft Battle Chest<\/p>\n

10.    World of Warcraft<\/p>\n

NPD’s sales chart takes into account all physical store sales across the USA.<\/p>\n

Due to the rising popularity of digital downloads in less bandwidth starved countries such as the USA, we have includedDirect2Drive and STEAM’s Top Ten<\/p>\n

Direct2Drive sales (3\/2 – 3\/10)<\/strong><\/p>\n

1.    Empire Total War<\/p>\n

2.    Empire Total War – Special Forces Edition<\/p>\n

3.    Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II<\/p>\n

4.    Empire: Total War (Pre-Order with free gane)<\/p>\n

5.    Drakensang: The Dark Eye<\/p>\n

6.    MLB 2K9<\/p>\n

7.    Rome: total War Gold Edition<\/p>\n

8.    Final Fantasy XI Vana’diel Collection 2008<\/p>\n

9.    Defense Grid: The Awakening<\/p>\n

10.   Grand Theft AutoIV<\/p>\n


<\/strong><\/p>\n

STEAM<\/strong> (3\/1 – 3\/17)<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Unreal Tournament III Black<\/p>\n

2. Empire: Total War<\/p>\n

3. Left 4 Dead<\/p>\n

4. Dawn of War II<\/p>\n

5. Counter-Strike Source<\/p>\n

6. World in Conflict<\/p>\n

7. The Orange Box<\/p>\n

8. Team Fortress 2<\/p>\n

9. Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45<\/p>\n

10. Fallout 3<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Discuss Sales Charts<\/a> on the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NPD release their recorded sales figures for the period March 1 to March 7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}