Gaming: Farming Simulator Nineteen Sold Over 1 One Chiliad M Copies Inwards X Days

I don't teach it. Granted, non existence a gamer or a farmer I'm belike missing something simply finding a 1000000 people who desire to vanquish out $40 to $90 per (depending on the edition) seems quite amazing.

From Gamespot:

Farming Simulator nineteen Sells 1 Million Copies After 10 Days, Sets New Franchise Sales Record
The PS4, Xbox One, together with PC game is doing quite well.

The newest Farming Simulator game got off to a rigid start. Farming Simulator nineteen sold to a greater extent than than 1 1000000 combined physical together with digital copies over its starting fourth dimension 10 days, it was announced today. H5N1 press liberate points out that the success is peculiarly notable given that Farming Simulator 19's liberate date--November 20--came among a busy flavor for blockbuster releases....MORE

The study goes on to note:

...The game also adds a major novel license inwards John Deere, along amongst a lay out of novel locations inwards America together with Europe to practise together with expand a farm. The game also adds rideable horses for the starting fourth dimension time.

HT to together with headline from VideoGamer who add together this tidbit:

...Farming Simulator has been knocking around for a piece now, together with is pretty pop inwards European countries. The serial has sold over fifteen 1000000 units worldwide.

Is it the Germans?
It seems similar something the Germans mightiness teach into, variety of similar Cowboys together with Deutschlanders or any that craze was called.
Yeah, it's gotta survive the German's, equally narrated inwards hushed received pronunciation:

Some compare it to snooker, others to figure skating. But for those who lead maintain given their lives to competitive ploughing, it’s to a greater extent than than a sport, it’s a agency of life

That's from The Guardian's coverage of the World Ploughing Championships. Here's the starting fourth dimension paragraph:.

On 31 August, the nighttime earlier the starting fourth dimension 24-hour interval of the World Ploughing Championship, the bar of the Hotel Fortuna inwards the pocket-size German linguistic communication town of Reutlingen was crammed amongst the global ploughing elite. The scene resembled a low-key UN afterparty – Swiss, Kenyans, Australians, Latvians, Canadians together with French, all slugging dorsum long spectacles of German linguistic communication beer. The pinnacle flying of international ploughing is a express pool, the same faces recurring every year, together with and thence the atmosphere was jovial, similar a schoolhouse reunion, 50-odd ploughmen together with 2 ploughwomen (the sport has historically been dominated yesteryear men) hailing each other affectionately across the room. Much of the utter concerned the wild boar who had manifestly dug upwards the plain where the next day’s contest would accept place. But at that topographic point was something else inwards the air too, a bonhomie edged amongst rivalry. They were hither to win....