Pro-Activison analysts predict 6M Starcraft II sales

:P of course they would have a higher operating profit, they are selling their games at more than twice the price of others and fools are buying them. (PS. US$ 80 + per game in asia)

I still think it's stupid that it's being released as three separate games. But this will probably sell very, very well.

terrans ftw!! damn, wonder how the story is gonna play out with this one.. i wanna see jim and zeratul beat the hell out of kerrigan..

Well,I´ll be one of those 6 million,that´s for sure!

@vmaven There greed with wow? Im sorry what greed? If you buy the game and dont agree with the tos they will give you your money back. Theres this belief that they make a insane amount of cash off of subsciptions. Most people dont even know that more then half of all subs are from asia which pays for the hour, not monthly. They barely make a quarter of wow's income from that for over half of its playerbase. Add in blizzard only making about 40% profit on each sub thats not in asia, there no where near as rich as you think, even more so with paying over 4k people and working on new content. Do they make a nice penny at the end of the day? Hell yes, but no where near what your wife and many others belive. If you can explain the greed to me, i'd be happy because i dont see it. Or is it just hate on blizzard for success?

This only serves to confuse people further... This ISN'T an Activision game, by any interpretation. The only connection between Blizzard and Activision is that they are both owned by Vivendi (since Vivendi owns they're holdings comapny, benefit just Activision. That said, I'm sure SC2 will sell as much as they expect.

I've bought every Blizzard game since their inception, except the addon for Warcraft 3. I'm interested in Starcraft 2, and I want to get my wife to try playing some w/ me. I am not sure she'll ever get into a RTS, if we have to jump through hoops so we can play together. She already isn't happy with Blizzards greediness from her WOW experience. I'm not sure about this one. Oh, I wouldn' t mind seeing some Blizzard notepads return.

im with all of you, wtf did they team up with activision anyway? They felt bad for them and wanted to carry them to victory?! I dont get it, Blizzard is the best and should sit on a pedestal all alone. So everyone could look up and say: "I wish i could be that bad ass..."

Starcraft 2 will probably sell 20 million copies. 4 million in US, 6 million in EU and 10 million in Asia (mostly Korea).

Well well well. 2 pc titles to save activisions year. I guess pc gaming is "dying" ( sarcasm )

Activision leave blizzard alone they were cool without you :)

Can't wait for starcraft but considering their profit margin that means they're screwing us.

Activison = Activision Blizzard = Blizzard I hate ActivisonBlizzard name!!

I doubt it will do so well without LAN support

We need to find a way to get Activision to stop tainting the Blizzard name.. WHO'S WITH ME!!!

I started saving the day Starcraft 2 was announced, and I spent every time it was pushed back, but if I kept all those savings, I think I could have bought a car... I want this game now, the holiday season is too far away.

In order for it to sell 6 million copies... IT HAS TO ACTUALLY COME OUTTTTTTT. Anytime now Blizz. Don't be shy.

an RTS game without T1 LAN support .... hmmmm ... pass ...

PC gaming to save Activision? Oh the irony.

Wrong! its 3 Million Sold & 3 Million Stoled.

Maybe Activision should spend their time predicting a date when this game comes out instead of predicting on how much its will sell. Activision priorities.

@ raven28256 can't spell analyst without 'anal' :P Jeebus, we've waited long enough for this one, huh?

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Yeah, it will sell 6 million...In the first three seconds of release. I don't think 6 million is a high enough estimate. Are we forgetting that this game is a NATIONAL SPORT in a certain Asian country? If we take into account international sales, it will easily surpass that 6 million estimate. Besides, why do we even listen to these "analysts?" Don't most just pull random numbers out their asses and end up being wrong 99% of the time anyway?

yea........ wait this is good for me how? Should I really be worried about how much money they hope to make make? The answer is an emphatic yes.

It will sell 6 million.... If they release the game!!!! of course. Starcraft Ghost would have great sales too... if they didn't cancel it after pushing back the release date for so long.

lol we'll see if the game gets released soon. remember what happened the last time they try to release a non WOW game on time.....

@hotfiree: Activision purchased Blizzard either last year or in '08. They thankfully haven't tried to upend anything at Blizzard and change how they do things so all the Blizzard games are still just Blizzard games.

So why are activision going to be seeing alot of the money .... what are they doing? Are they publishing blizzard games now?

Those expectations are kind of high, but Blizzard has yet to *legitimately* disappoint with a game (since I know some grizzled old school wow veteran will complain that they ruined the franchise with x expansion). I don't particularly like a lot of Activision's titles, but Blizzard's and CoD are always worth looking forward to.

starcraft 2 will likely sell over 6 million over its lifetime, plus remember that its coming in 3 parts, not one. tbh though, as well as i expect sc2 to sell i dont think itll hold a candle to diablo 3.

Hmmmm, I think there expectations are a bit to high

Global sales will be good based on Korea but I don't expect it to set any records.

I think this game is going to sell well because tbh people respect Blizzard. People want to play it online and I guess we will just have to see.

ill buy StarCraft 2

More like 6M downloaded. I expect around 2-4 m sells, expect half of those sells in Korea lol. But seriously, this game will probably downloaded more then it will actually sell(look at MW2 and Sims 3 sells on PC, it is lower then it has been downloaded).

6M? well ill be glad to be part of that on day 1

as if anyone didn't know that Activision is dependent on Blizzard for revenue honestly if Blizz left the conglomorate, they would be better off

I'm not sure if my laptop can handle it... But if it can, I will definitely look into buying SC2. The first Starcraft was incredible.

I feel like choking....

I wouldn't doubt it one bit. First!