{"id":52022,"date":"2013-03-19T09:27:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T07:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=52022"},"modified":"2013-03-19T09:30:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T07:30:39","slug":"simcity-sells-over-1-million-and-other-boastful-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/52022-simcity-sells-over-1-million-and-other-boastful-stats","title":{"rendered":"SimCity sells over 1 million, and other boastful stats"},"content":{"rendered":"

EA has proudly announced that SimCity has sold over 1.1 million during its first 2 weeks of launch – that’s a lot of free games they’ll be giving out<\/a>. EA is billing this as a record breaking performance, since this is the biggest SimCity launch in its history.<\/p>\n

Roughly 54 percent of the sales were digital versions of the game, downloaded via Origin or other digital download services. 44 percent of SimCity sales were delivered via EA’s direct-to-consumer digital download service.<\/p>\n

SimCity gamers have also helped set new records for peak concurrent users on Origin, now at 1.3 million and rising.<\/p>\n

In the two weeks since launch:<\/p>\n