Industry NewsSleeper PC Hit : Sins of a Solar EmpireBig Download - September 4, 2008
Submitted by mrahaju (9)
at 9:03PM PST on September 4, 2008
The big sleeper hit for PC games in 2008 is without question Sins of a Solar Empire. The space strategy game from developer Ironclad Games and publisher Stardock spent a number of weeks early this year on the top 10 best seller lists. Today Gamasutra reports that the game has sold over 500,000 units; 400,000 of those sales came from retail stores and over 100,000 units were from digital download sales. The game itself cost less than a million dollars to create.
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It is important to remember to account for digital download sales when forecasting the GLS of PC games.