25 million sales (according to wikipedia?)

Wikipedia - The Age of Empires series has been a commercial success, selling over 25 million copies. Critics have credited part of the success of the series to its historical theme and fair play; the artificial intelligence (AI) players have fewer advantages than in many of the series’ competitors.

If it is true, AOEIV is doing poorly and the player number is too low for such a high sales number.
People are definitely disappointed with the art direction, biomes, AI, and size of units vs buildings etc. More than 95% of players have already abandoned the game, and only as few as 5% are currently playing. I would find it a failure of a game.

The sales can be high and a success.
But it couldn’t; satisfy players and their expectations vs reality…

1 Like

That’s 25 million sales across all AoE games (and probably expansions too) over the past 20 years.

So that’s this entire list:

|1997|
Age of Empires
|1998|
Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome
|1999|
Age of Empires II
|2000|
Age of Empires II: The Conquerors
|2001|
|2002|
Age of Mythology
|2003|
Age of Mythology: The Titans
Age of Empires Gold for Pocket PC
|2004|
|2005|
Age of Empires II Mobile
Age of Empires III
|2006|
Age of Empires II Deluxe Edition Mobile
Age of Empires: The Age of Kings
Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs
|2007|
Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties
Age of Empires III (J2ME)
|2008|
Age of Empires: Mythologies
|2009|
|2010|
Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties (J2ME)
|2011|
Age of Empires Online
|2012|
|2013|
Age of Empires II: HD Edition
Age of Empires II: The Forgotten
|2014|
Age of Mythology: Extended Edition
Age of Empires: Castle Siege
|2015|
Age of Empires II: The African Kingdoms
Age of Empires: World Domination
|2016|
Age of Mythology: Tale of the Dragon
Age of Empires II: Rise of the Rajas
|2017|
|2018|
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
|2019|
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
|2020|
Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
|2021|
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - Lords of the West
Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - United States Civilization
Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - The African Royals
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - Dawn of the Dukes
Age of Empires IV
Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - Mexico Civilization
|2022|
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - Dynasties of India
Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - Knights of the Mediterranean

1 Like

Recently, Forgotten Empires has released a new definitive version of the iconic Age of Empires II on November 14, 2019. The game did pretty well in terms of sales and revenue. A new statement from Brian Sullivan suggests that the game has sold over 25 million copies so far with over $1 billion in revenue.Feb 11, 2020

hmmm, This means in 2020, AOE2 did already sell 25 million copies.
It would be interesting if we can get more information about the AOE4 sales number.

Does it still matter how many copies a game sells since it’s free on the game pass?

1 Like

Recheck your numbers. A total of 25 million copies sold was across the entire franchise.

3 Likes