Monday, March 18, 2013

IGN All: SimCity Sells 1 Million Copies

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SimCity Sells 1 Million Copies
Mar 18th 2013, 17:40

Maxis' SimCity has sold 1.1 million copies in its first two weeks, EA has revealed. More than half of those sales stem from Origin and other digital distribution services.

EA also noted some fun facts about SimCity's opening weeks:

• SimCity players have logged more than 15 million hours of online gameplay.

• More than 5.7 million original cities have been created since launch.

• More than 780 million buildings have been built.

• SimCity mayors to date have built enough road and railroad tracks to circle the globe more than 40,000 times.

Not bad for a game that barely functioned in its early days.

Recently, EA awarded SimCity buyers with a free game in apology for the city-building sim's numerous online issues. The publisher claims to have increased server capacity by over 400% since release.

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