Gamasutra can reveal that The Sims 3 sold 820,000 copies in the United States in June, topping sales charts across all platforms for the month, according to information provided by NPD.
The PC title, developed by Electronic Arts' Redwood Shores studio as the latest in the Will Wright-conceived life sim series, is already one of the overall top-selling games released in 2009 for any format, based on information about console game sales published this week and also provided to Gamasutra by NPD.
Direct comparisons to early sales of 2004 predecessor The Sims 2 are difficult; that game sold over 1 million units in its first 10 days internationally, with fewer than half of those sales said to be in the US. The Sims 3 has sold nearly that total number in the US alone, but across a period of a calendar month.
