Mainstream shoppers largely unaware of games not called "The Sims"

The computer games people buy in shops are not the ones they buy online. [RPS]

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Those retail charts are for UK, not America
http://www.facebook.com/dwbennettIU Dan Bennett

This survey of the top 10 games is a bit flawed. There are 2 competing online game distributors now, Steam by Valve, and the new Origin by EA. Once Origin came out, Steam started pulling some EA games off the lists (Dragon Age, Crysis, more). Also, there is a pretty big QuakeCon Steam sale this week
edit: **My bad, looks like Sims was added this year**
- Alex Mauer
  
  Really? I must be imagining things: http://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_7_7_151_12&term=sims
- First Last
  
  That’s somewhat disingenuous - Valve started kicking EA titles off Steam for violating the ToS as DLCs came out for them around Origin’s launch, which suggests that EA was trying to stealthily patch them to use Origin for the DLC purchases rather than Steam – EA then went on bleating about how restrictive Steam’s ToS was compared to other digital distributors.
  On that note, there’s been competing online distributors for years now with much larger catalogues than Origin. Origin’s only hook is EA exclusives, which is a big reason for EA to pull their games from Steam and if they don’t offer the same games then they’re hardly competing distributors!
mutsbug

oh come on this post just feels lazy. the first comments in the article you’re linking to de-bunk it pretty well, rob.
http://boingboing.net/ Rob Beschizza

Right you are! Fixing.
mccrum

Reading the comments apparently those rankings are also just for the week. The week there was a huge sale for a Quake pack.

With Steam, who is always having a sale of something during the week, I think looking at the numbers over a month is going to be closer to reality.

Also: That’s a lot of Sims. As I’ve never Simmed, is it possible to get your SimPeople to play videogames and be really meta about it?
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=551343828 Scott Frazer
  
  Yep. They have computers and video game consoles in the game. Because it’s an EA game, the images that show up on the tv/monitor when the sims are playing are all taken from other EA titles.
fxq

Yeah I saw this on RPS. Very interesting.

Now that Walmart has agreed to release game sales data I’m very curious to see how that compares.
Daemonworks

Not sure if I’d actually call “The Sims” a game…