Editing The Sims (video game) (section)

===Sales===
''The Sims'' was released on February 4, 2000,<ref>{{moby game|id=/sims|name=''The Sims''}}</ref> and became a best-seller shortly after launch.<ref name="gi" /> In the United States, it was the best-selling computer game of 2000, with domestic sales of 1.77&nbsp;million units and revenues of $72.9&nbsp;million.<ref name="pcgsales">{{Cite journal |date=April 2001 |title=Eyewitness; It's All in the Numbers |journal=[[PC Gamer US]] |volume=8 |issue=4 |pages=40, 41}}</ref> It remained the country's No. 1 computer title in 2001,<ref name="npd2001">{{Cite web |last=Walker |first=Trey |date=February 7, 2002 |title=2001 game sales break records |url=http://www.gamespot.com:80/news/2002/02/07/news_2846252.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041019101827/http://www.gamespot.com:80/news/2002/02/07/news_2846252.html |archive-date=October 19, 2004 |website=[[GameSpot]]}}</ref> when it sold an additional 1.48&nbsp;million units and earned another $60.4&nbsp;million in revenue.<ref name="2001nyu">{{Cite web |last=Bradshaw |first=Lucy |author-link=Lucy Bradshaw (game developer) |date=January 31, 2002 |title=Markle Forum on Children and Media |url=https://cat.nyu.edu/current/news/media/marklesimcity.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040619191112/https://cat.nyu.edu/current/news/media/marklesimcity.pdf |archive-date=June 19, 2004 |publisher=[[New York University]]}}</ref> In 2002, ''The Sims'' became the top-selling PC game in history at the time, displacing ''[[Myst]]'' by selling more than 6.3&nbsp;million copies worldwide.<ref name="best-selling">{{Cite web |last=Walker |first=Trey |date=March 22, 2002 |title=The Sims overtakes Myst |url=http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/simslivinlarge/news_2857556.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100119043947/http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/simslivinlarge/news_2857556.html |archive-date=January 19, 2010 |access-date=January 13, 2019 |website=[[GameSpot]] |publisher=[[CNET Networks]]}}</ref>

By February 2005, the game had shipped 16 million copies worldwide.<ref name="16m">{{Cite press release |title=The Sims Franchise Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary and Continues to Break Records |date=February 7, 2005 |publisher=[[Electronic Arts]] |url=http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2005/feb/1114806.htm |access-date=October 8, 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905043911/http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2005/feb/1114806.htm |archive-date=September 5, 2008}}</ref> By July 2006, the console versions of ''The Sims'' series had sold a combined 3.5&nbsp;million units in the United States.<ref name="nextgensales2">{{Cite web |last1=Campbell |first1=Colin |last2=Keiser |first2=Joe |date=July 29, 2006 |title=The Top 100 Games of the 21st Century |url=http://www.next-gen.biz/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3537&Itemid=2&pop=1&page=1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071028115051/http://www.next-gen.biz/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3537&Itemid=2&pop=1&page=1 |archive-date=October 28, 2007 |website=[[Next Generation (magazine)|Next Generation]]}}</ref> ''Next Generation'' ranked ''The Sims'' as the 45th highest-selling game launched for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, or GameCube between January 2000 and July 2006 in the United States.<ref name="nextgensales2" /> As of March 2015, ''The Sims'' had sold more than 11.24&nbsp;million copies for PC, making it one of the best-selling PC games of all time.<ref name="guinness-sims">{{Cite book |title=Guinness World Records 2016 Gamer's Edition |publisher=Macmillan |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-910561-13-3 |page=145}}</ref>