WAR battles Spore, The Force Unleashed for top of EU sales charts

by Samuel Axon on Sep 27th 2008 3:00PM

Fantasy, Launches, MMO industry, New titles, Warhammer Online, News items

Warhammer Online pulled off some impressive sales figures in the European market this past week. The Swedish sales chart shows WAR at the #1 and #4 (for the Collector's Edition) spots in that country, beating out the highly anticipated Will Wright project Spore. WAR also topped the charts in Spain. In Germany it came in second behind the heavily marketed console game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.

Of course an MMO dominating sales charts is nothing new. World of Warcraft has done so on and off since its launch four years ago, and Age of Conan debuted at #1 in many regions, even defeating the critically acclaimed BioWare tactical RPG Mass Effect which launched in the same month. It's also worth noting that the Warhammer IP is very popular in Europe, perhaps more so than in North America.

This news jives well with the report that half a million users have registered for the game. On the other hand, similar numbers were thrown out around AoC shortly after its launch. It's doing okay, but it didn't turn out to be a landscape-altering success that some folks projected, and that some are expecting from WAR as well

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Reader Comments (1)

of course the problem with that is launch stat's seem to mean very little to know if the game is good or not and weather it will keep it rating.

case in point connan mmo it had very good stat's when it launched then bam the problems hit and half (if i rem my conan math correctly) of the player base left.

so know will they live or die that is the question