Blizzard’s Diablo III has sold over 10 million copies in worldwide sales, Activision has announced, making the PC title this year’s bestselling game to date.
“Year-to-date, Diablo III is the top-selling game overall based on an estimated digital and retail sales in North America and Europe,” said Activision CEO, president and director Bobby Kotick. “Diablo III has already sold an excess of 10 million copies, proving once again that investing in key talent and our top franchise is worth the wait.”
Kotick also made known that Skylanders is the top-selling console and handheld game at retail in North America and Europe, generating life-to-date revenues in excess of $500 million.
In addition, Activision confirmed first week sales of 2.7 million for Mists of Pandaria and that World of Warcraft’s subscriber has topped 10 million.
Disappointing StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm news, as it was revealed that the game won’t be released until the first half of 2013.
Said Blizzard CEO Michael Morhaime:
With 6 million copies of Wings of Liberty sold to date, we have a large community of players eagerly awaiting the next instalment of StarCraft. Beta testing for Heart of the Swarm is well underway, and the development team has been collecting great feedback from the community. Just last week, we made a major content update to the beta in order to test some important community features, which have been well-received by players. These features are designed to improve the social aspect, as well as the overall user experience for StarCraft players.
We’re working hard towards a first half 2013 launch for Heart of the Swarm.
knew it would sell well, but not this well!
sad i havent had much time to play it sadly.
another game to go back to in the 2013 mid year season drought.
speaking of sales halo 4 broke 3M units on its first day!
DAM!
just finished it last night, now ubisoft sit up and pay attention!
NOW THATS how you end a game!
been so long since a game brought a tear to my eye, it was beautiful!