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The Top 100 Best-Selling PC Games of the Century
Ground Glass writes "They already did this for consoles and handhelds, but now Next Generationhas finished the cycle by releasing a rather more interesting list of the best-selling PC games released since 2000. It's more interesting as, since most everyone has a Windows PC in some form or another, the games that are purchased for it are...rather more esoteric than you'd see being bought on console. You may also notice the sales numbers are quite a bit lower than on the other lists — is this the spectre of piracy given form? In any case, there's plenty of data to interpret here."
It's just shocking how much this article exposes the decline of PC Gaming. In the 90's, top sellers were the Wing Commander Series, LucasArt Adventure Games, Command and Conquer RTSes, Doom, Tomb Raider, and other Genre-busters. On the other hand, the list for this decade breaks down to:
- 1/3 "Edutainment" games
- 1/3 "Classic" Shovelware
- 1/3 Playing off of names from movies and OLD video games
- 1 MMORPG that took the PC community by storm
What's really shocking is that I can't find a single "must have" game on that list. (Unless you count WoW as a "must have" game rather than a service.) I'm tempted to blame the fact on the lack of originality from game makers, but the lack of a single instance of Activision's Star Trek properties on that list probably says a lot about how the PC Gaming market currently views originality. I mean, you'd think that Bridge Commander would be on there. Not to mention the Elite Force and Armada series. (Even if they are based on tired properties.) Each of those games showed a lot of innovation that was surprisingly not rewarded.
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
Yes but most of us in North America don't really enjoy tentacles 'attacking' scantily clad anime girls.
disclaimer: I've been known to store numbers in my ass for which to dig out when quantities are required.