ChartSpot: August 2009

lol how is Starcraft still selling? Do people play online? Dont they get mercilessly killed and humiliated? And how is Empire still selling? Its still broken...And how is Diablo still selling? Its a great game but...seriously? Are there not other more popular games? And I wish...somehow...that Batman AA had some sort of multi...lol.

Why is WOW and the SIMS always sell so high... I could understand the sims3. but I never play World of warcraft... blizzard is a lucky company. they always earn.

@Javieralijandro, even if Square Enix had made Batman AA (they didn't), you would seriously return/abandon a great game like that based solely upon what company made it? I don't know about most gamers, but the last thing I care about is who a game's developer is. If the game is good, I take interest. I don't care if it's Square, Capcom, Activision, EA or some indie developer.

1.5 Million sold for Madden between PS3 and XBOX 360 that's not shabby. Especially for a game that can't even reach a 8 rating. I usually don't even buy games unless they are a 8.5 and up. Madden is a powerhouse rather they deserve it or not.

they sold 303k B-Man:AA for 360 and 290k for ps3? Well OFC! because there is more 360 users in the (((US)))) than the ps3 users in America

@Nautilus Square-Enix owns Eidos

@javieralijandro Square Enix had no part of the batman game, that is definitely a typo. Eidos published the game

@jsmoke03 Unfortunately, infamous has been selling rather poorly.

dang it square enix made the awesome batman or published it i mean, dang now i have to return it -.- just because its published by them..

The fact that ESIV Oblivion is still in there proves that the fans want more.

i'm really surprised infamous is nowhere to be found on this list after released 2 months ago...

The Starcraft: Battlechest is still there! And that has been out forever! (Or what seems like it).

Talking about a 0.1 difference in a game score is irrelevant when the figures they report are a hundred of thousand copies off on something solid like units sold... Sure I get your point that MAYBE it was a little better than the 360 game, but it's still all subjective to whoever reviews said game. Sales however are not subjective, they are cold solid numbers. If they are to do things like these charts, might as well get their facts straight.

That "Mumbo Jumbo Assortment" is selling because every GameStop in the country has a cardboard box with those games in them on the counter. Glad to see Batman AA is selling well though.

I bet that PC chart next year will remain 70% the same. :(

@BuiltForSin For example: Oblivion got 0.1 lower score on Playstation 3, while having a longer draw-distance, smaller loading times & faster ones as well. Graphics were pretty much identical, yet the lightning effect on the shield especially was noticeably better on PS3. Yet still they gave it 0.1 lower. What else? -> Always so much hype for 360 -games, when they make PS3 -games look lame by putting boring pictures into every anticipated game and fill in something like "headshots made more realistic" when a headshot has always killed the person in the certain game -serie. Pretty much every multiplatform game they display is marked on as 360 -game in the news -article and when it's a bad game, yet a multiplatform; that's when they display the PS3 -case of the game. That's two of the many reasons why I feel like how I said. In either case; not that I care much, they're just reviews. It depends on YOU, do YOU like the game. P.S. Also that in the "Game Hero" -thing, when anyone said bad things about Master Chief, those comments got removed, but if it was of a PS3 -character, then no. That's how I see them being sided instead of being exactly fair to both of them.

@TevoxZi - What ever could have given you that impression? I wonder if it was Bill Gates teabags resting on each editor's chin whenever they do a news story or review over the last few years that gave it away.. lol

@peetowser Well, I haven't really trusted anything GameSpot says these days. For some reason I'm really starting to think they're a little biased for 360.

I laughed how here at GS the Xbox edition of Arkham sold more than the PS3 one... The numbers @ vgchartz.com say 435,358 for PS3 and 414,434 for Xbox for totals... more than a 100,000 units difference for both versions with what we see here...

@BuiltForSin - Can I just ask how thats a surprice? Did you honestly think a game whit zero marketing would be a big seller?

batman rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How come Final Fantasy XI: Starter Pack by Square Enix is 0$??

wow oblivion is still selling rank 17 wow thats amazing for a 4 yr old game

Seriously? The WII VERSION of Madden outsold the 360 version of Wolfenstein?? Brutal..

@cjasko94 I doubt they'll drop the price anytime soon, but unless they bring out DLC and soonish then i expect there to be plenty of pre-owned up for grabs once people have played it to death.

Hah, good to see the Starcraft and War3 battlechests still going strong.

Anyways wolfenstein was a great game to play after Return to castle wolfenstein

damn blizzard is making so much money.

Yeah, and the 10+ year old StarCraft & Diablo are of the fastest titles.

My God.. looking at the PC chart makes me feel like I fell into a time warp that took me back to 2007..

Looks like Blizzard is owning the PC scene.

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@monson21502 You should try reading the part on top of the stats. The info you'll find is amazing.

dang! pc sales must be really bad. because i read a news thread on here or ign saying: Wolfenstein only sold 30 thousands copies on all platforms. but its number 7 on the pc charts...ouch

hopefully eidos realizes the f'd up and release the joker content soon for 360 and or release new content exclusively for 360 since Batman is selling way more!!

nothing very unusual in Consoles chart but again in pc chart what makes me surprise is warcraft III ,starcraft ! and diablo!!!!!!

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Diablo and starcraft are still selling...WHOO!

batman rocked wuldve been goty if not for uncharted 2 coming next month

@brean24 who or what are you talking about? I hope your not talking to me cuz im not talking about august. im talking about september

That's Wii madden? I feel sorry for Wii gamers, missing out the serious gaming.

That is complete Bullsh*t. TOP-SELLING HARDWARE - AUGUST 2009 Nintendo DS: 552,900 Wii: 277,400 Xbox 360: 215,400 PlayStation 3: 210,000 PSP: 140,300 PlayStation 2: 105,900

the first 7 days of september is really good. Im just going to list consoles but go to vgchartz to see the games to :) but sales are going back up :) This is world wide sales of consoles 1. PS3 550,256 2. DS 358,830 3. Wii 181,970 4. Xbox 360 162,196 5. PSP 113,203 The PS3 has rally increased games sales by a lot.

Wow the elder scrolls are still there ^_^

@Berserkerz no just published by them, remember they bought Eidos Interactive

The PC sales charts are always so boring as it's always World of Warcraft and The Sims.. I wish they would report DD as well. Left 4 Dead is always at the top of Steam sales charts I wonder how it fairs against WoW and Sims.

Wow... That Wii Madden looks terrible - maybe a $5 game...

They charge $40 for Diablo 2's chest still? Man, greedy.

Wtf? How is Mario Kart Wii, and Mario Kart DS even on this list LMAO No PS3 Exclusive =( oh well what do the sales mean to me anyway

Remember, Batman Arkham Asylum only had like 7 days in August to sell