Wolfenstein sells 106k units in first week, all bets off

by David Hinkle on Sep 11th 2009 6:30PM

When the NPD released its figures for August, we noticed Wolfenstein was absent from the top-sellers list. Sure, the title was only available for purchase during a few days of August (it released August 21 on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC), but one of those versions had to have sold more than Fossil Fighters, which was in tenth place on the sales chart with 92,000 sold, right? Gamespot says, no.

Apparently, id's resurrected shooter only sold 106,000 across all platforms -- 59,000 units on Xbox 360, 30,000 on PS3 and 16,000 on PC. In other words, the PS2 version of Madden alone outsold combined sales of Wolfenstein. Disappointing, for sure, since you must have really been hoping to get your money back.

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Tags: activision, id, id-software, Microsoft, npd, wolfenstein, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (52)

I really love the single player half of the game. It brings back the taste of the classic wolf series. Multi-player is where the game really lacked some key 'old wolf' features.. They hyped up the game, saying that it would be a hit according to all the wolfenstien fans out there.. But as most game companies do, they hired a NEW company to work on a portion of the game, in this case: multiplayer. A bad move already proven by the makers of CallofDuty4, using a different company to make CallofDuty5 ( which was way WORSE than cod4). But game companies will never learn it seems.. They're in it for the money, rather than the common fan's enjoyment in the game..