Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/25/diablo_3_smashes_pc_sales_records/
Diablo III dev rolls 12d6, scores PC sales record
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Posted in Games, 25th May 2012 09:25 GMT
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Diablo III has become the fastest selling PC game of all time, publisher Blizzard has claimed, after shifting 3.5m copies within 24 hours of release.
Despite a few niggling problems with the game - which Blizzard is readying a patch for, it said - Diablo III hit shelves last week and was snapped up by record numbers of PC gamers, with a further 1.2m copies provided to World of Warcraft [1] Annual Pass subscribers.
Totally in the pink
While those figures are impressive in the world of personal computing, it still failed to claw the top spot on the all-formats chart, with Rockstar's Max Payne 3 sitting firmly on the central podium.
Then again, console sales are always healthier - you only need to look towards Modern Warfare 3's first day sales [2] of 6.5m units to see that. Diablo III took an entire week to come close to that figure.
You can read what we thought about Diablo III [3] here on Reg Hardware. ®