World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Sets Single Day Record January 25, 2007 5:00 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in News, Video Game Sales, Video Games.trackback
Blizzard announced in a press release that Burning Crusade, the expansion pack to the worldwide hit World of Warcraft sold more than 2.3M copies in its first 24 hours of release, making it the fastest selling PC game ever in North America and Europe.
The hit MMORPG sold about 1.2 million copies in the USA, with the remaining 1.1 million sold throughout Europe. The game was released in North America, Europe, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia on January 16 and in Australia and New Zealand the following day. It goes on sale in other regions of the world at later dates.
More than 1.7 million players have already logged in and upgraded to play The Burning Crusade.
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And Halo 3 sold 3.3 within 24 hours…
And GTA IV 3.6 million in 24 hours…
Owned.