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#1 2008-04-21 3:57 pm
- LLEVIATHANN
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The Sims hit 100mil mark
NEW YORK - There are no scary monsters to slay, no enemies to shoot and no cars to hijack. But "The Sims" video and computer game has sold 100 million units since its launch in 2000.
Long the world's top-selling game for computers, "The Sims" is also available on Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 2, the Nintendo Co. Wii and other platforms — but it remains most popular on PCs.
The 100-million mark, which publisher Electronic Arts Inc. announced Wednesday, puts "The Sims" in the ranks of blockbuster franchises such as Nintendo's Mario and Pokemon games, which have sold more than 201 million and 175 million units respectively, as well as Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.'s "Grand Theft Auto" series, which has sold more than 65 million copies.
GTA gets a nod but no WoW & Blizz's 10 mil mark.
and it only took 8 years to get there. 
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#2 2008-04-21 8:00 pm
- Some1
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Re: The Sims hit 100mil mark
Blizzard is at the 10 mil mark.
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#3 2008-04-21 8:56 pm
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Re: The Sims hit 100mil mark
I have no idea how many units WoW's sold, but they have ~10-11 million current subscribers, so they must've sold far more total units than that.
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#4 2008-04-21 10:42 pm
Re: The Sims hit 100mil mark
I have The Sims, but I got bored of it a week after getting it. 
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#5 2008-04-21 10:54 pm
- elpato84
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Re: The Sims hit 100mil mark
The only way it could be there is if they included all 5 billion expansion packs.
"I personally think that with the budget they've planned, Halo [the movie] will be a failure. I think Halo will not make the money back in the end."
-Uwe Boll (made the films: Alone in the Dark, House of the Dead, Bloodrayne, Far Cry, Postal)
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#6 2008-04-22 4:02 pm
- LLEVIATHANN
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Re: The Sims hit 100mil mark
Some1 wrote:
Blizzard is at the 10 mil mark.
fix'd lil heavy handed on the zeros.
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