Settlers III Sold 500,000 Copies
Blue Byte Software today confirmed 500,000 units have been sold into retail stores worldwide. The Settlers III is the latest title in a tremendously popular series of games, which has already sold over 1 million copies.
Blue Byte Software today confirmed 500,000 units have been sold into retail stores worldwide. The Settlers III is the latest title in a tremendously popular series of games, which has already sold over 1 million copies. It’s an immense god sim with a real-time, strategic simulation of prosperity, tactics, combat and growth. It is currently available on PC CD-ROM in more than 3,700 retail stores throughout North America for the suggested retail price of $39.99.
For January 1999, this is the business side of gaming doing what it always does: studios forming, publishers moving money around, lawsuits flying, and everyone promising the next big thing. Somewhere in that mess, players eventually get the games. Maybe.