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    Default Best selling TW-Game until now?

    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?

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    Default Re: Best selling TW-Game until now?

    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.

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    Well... dayum! ETW kicked every other TW's ass
    You just wasted 4 seconds of your life reading this sentence. You'll read it again because it was so funny and waste another 4. And since you read that sentence, some more disappeared, count this sentence and it's 'nother couple. Good job time waster!
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    Default Re: Best selling TW-Game until now?

    Quote Originally Posted by Juli View Post
    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.

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    Ummm... marketing?
    You just wasted 4 seconds of your life reading this sentence. You'll read it again because it was so funny and waste another 4. And since you read that sentence, some more disappeared, count this sentence and it's 'nother couple. Good job time waster!
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    Quote Originally Posted by GrnEyedDvl View Post
    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?

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    Default Re: Best selling TW-Game until now?

    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.

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