what i mean is how many copies does a popular game sell?
games like carcasonne, settlers, puerto rico, ticket to ride, etc?
what i mean is how many copies does a popular game sell?
games like carcasonne, settlers, puerto rico, ticket to ride, etc?
what i mean is how many copies does a popular game sell?
games like carcasonne, settlers, puerto rico, ticket to ride, etc?
Here are a few I know about
Settlers is reported to be over 2million copies sold.
Ticket to ride is over 320k sold.
Here are some figures for the hobby market:
"The premium does not seem to be a turnoff. Strong DVD board game sales are helping to fuel the whole board game category, which is a bright spot in the struggling toy industry. Year-to-date board game sales are $456.7 million, up 4.2% over the period last year, according to NPD. In 2003 board game sales climbed 2.3% over 2002 to $1.04 billion, while toy sales overall fell 3% to $20.7 billion. "
This is from this site:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2004-12-06-bored-games_x.htm
The article is supposedly from 12/6/04 so I would assume that when it says year to date it must mean June 12th or Dec 6 and hte fiscal year starting in April or something...not sure. Either way this helps narrow the number.
Also here it has a figure:
Here are some figures for the hobby market:
http://www.spielboy.com/printrun.php
thats a cool article.
it places settlers (including all editions) at 10 million sold 8O <--supposed to be a smiley with big eyes
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thanks for the responses guys
holy cow that is encouraging. i really thought that the market for quality board games was much smaller.