Civilization VI Sells an Estimated 88K Units First Week at Retail - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 16 November 2016 / 41,563 Views
The turn-based strategy game from Firaxis Games and 2K Games - Civilization VI - sold 87,903 units first week at retail on PC, according to our estimates. First week sales can be viewed on the VGChartz Global Weekly Chart for the week ending October 22.
Breaking down the sales by region, the game sold best in Europe with 47,280 units sold (54%), compared to 31,013 units sold in the US (35%). Looking more closely at Europe, the game sold an estimated 4,427 units in the UK, 22,720 units in Germany, and 5,460 units in France.
Civilization VI released for Windows PC worldwide on October 21.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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There are 1.16 million owners on steam according to SteamSpy! Retail PC is meaningless.
On consoles? Surely you mean PC?
Please Vgchartz, ask 2K to port this to PS4. I promisse to buy it. I even bought Grand Ages and Tropico from Kalypso, PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
That's probably not bad, considering it probably sold much, much more digitally.
have to imagine like 75% of Civ's sales would be online
its over 90%, if you look at Steamspy they have it at almost 1.2 Million !
Probably 2-3 million, Civ is the best game in this genre: easy to play, fun, challenging in the hard modes, it is so cool.
Nowadays 2K's retail release just consist of a piece of paper with a steam code on it...
