Best selling TW-Game until now?

[Xerrop]

I´m interested, because some people argue, that RTW was the most successful of all the TW-games, others argue for Empire - who is right and which TW-title sold the most copies?
Are there any sale figures available on all the games starting from Shogun?

[GrnEyedDvl]

From wikipedia:

Empire: Total War was released on 3 March 2009 to the North American market, and three days later in Europe. The game has become the fastest selling Total War title to date; Empire topped British video game sales charts for all platforms in the week of release, the first PC exclusive title to do so in a year and a half.[38][39][40] The game was reported to have sold nearly double the number of Rome: Total War and Medieval II: Total War.[41] In the United States, Empire: Total War and its Special Forces edition were ranked as first and second respectively in the PC sales charts for the week of release.[42] The game's Australian version debuted as the top PC game; across all platforms Empire: Total War was ranked fourth, behind Halo Wars, Wii Fit and Killzone 2

Amazon has a Best Sellers list that obviously only tracks sales on Amazon but these stats are updated every hour.

RTW is ranked #684 in All Games, #10 in PC Strategy - Gold Edition that also contains BI. RTW stand alone didnt have a rank.
M2TW is ranked #550 in All Games, #13 in PC Strategy - Again this is the Gold Edition that contains Kingdoms.
ETW is ranked #383 in All Games, #2 in PC Action Fighting (wtf they switched categories!)
NTW is ranked #105 in all games, #2 in PC Strategy

RTW has been selling for 5 years or so, but the presales for NTW (at least on Amazon) have already beaten RTW's numbers.

[Juli]

Well... dayum! ETW kicked every other TW's ass

[GrnEyedDvl]

Well... dayum! ETW kicked every other TW's ass

Thats a natural progression though, and it shows that even with all the problems ETW has that CA is doing something right when it comes to business.

[Juli]

Ummm... marketing?

[Xerrop]

RTW is ranked #684 in All Games, #10 in PC Strategy - Gold Edition that also contains BI. RTW stand alone didnt have a rank.
M2TW is ranked #550 in All Games, #13 in PC Strategy - Again this is the Gold Edition that contains Kingdoms.
ETW is ranked #383 in All Games, #2 in PC Action Fighting (wtf they switched categories!)
NTW is ranked #105 in all games, #2 in PC Strategy

RTW has been selling for 5 years or so, but the presales for NTW (at least on Amazon) have already beaten RTW's numbers.

Don´t know what to think about Amazon-ranking. Back in 2004 many players would have bought the game in stores and not online, or?

[magpie]

I would say that you could not judge sales of RTW or M2TW on the gold editions, RTW was selling for around a year before the gold edition was launched as was M2TW so the figures would be skewed.