Re: Are *any* games as popular as World of Warcraft?

[Roderick Colenbrander]

> On 10/1/07, Jesse Allen  wrote:
> > On 10/1/07, Daniel Remenak  wrote:
> > > No other single game has the market penetration and staying power of
> > > WoW as things stand.
> >
> > I think starcraft has it beat for penetration and staying power,
> > actually. But WoW is the current money maker.
>
> Call of Duty and Starcraft do show up pretty well, thanks.
>
> Here's the best graph I was able to put together so far:

Call of Duty is popular but I would say that CounterStrike (+ CounsterStrike Source, the port to the Source engine) are way more popular.

More and more games these days are distributed using Steam. That's something to watch too.

Roderick