StarCraft II Sells 3 Million In First Month

Blizzard has announced that StarCraft 2 sold 3 million copies worldwide in its first month on sale. That's good news for any game. For a game with two must-have expandalone releases in the pipeline, I daresay it's the sound of a leathery Porsche brochure flomping through the letterbox. Or maybe I'm being presumptuous- Blizzard's boys were were working on SC2 since 2003, after all.

In any case, remember those people complaining that StarCraft 2 was dialing the RTS back by 10 years? The thinking there was that StarCraft 2 ignored all the advancements the genre had made in the new millenium, and that this could only be bad for strategy games as a whole. Whether you agree with that or not, these sales figures do give that argument a little more clout.

Oh, you know what else I've just remembered? When Kieron and I took apart PCG during the StarCraft 2 beta and uploaded it to YouTube. Video after the jump.