Editing SimCity 3000 (section)

===Sales===
''SimCity 3000'' shipped 1 million copies in its debut six months.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gamecenter.com/News/Item/0,3,0-2866,00.html|title=GAMECENTER.COM - Game News - SimCity 3000 by the Numbers|date=17 August 2000|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000817171142/http://www.gamecenter.com/News/Item/0,3,0-2866,00.html|archive-date=17 August 2000}}</ref> In the German market, it received a "Gold" award from the Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland (VUD) by the end of May 1999,<ref name=vudcom>{{cite web | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181204192656/http://www.mediabiz.de/games/news/vud-nennt-vier-neue-sales-awards/67718/1027 |url=http://www.mediabiz.de/games/news/vud-nennt-vier-neue-sales-awards/67718/1027 | title=VUD nennt vier neue Sales Awards | date=July 2, 1999 | work=GamesMarkt | author=Staff | archive-date=December 4, 2018 | language=de | url-status=live }}</ref> indicating sales of at least 100,000 units across Germany, Austria and Switzerland.<ref name=gameprogold>{{cite magazine | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718145345/https://www.gamepro.de/artikel/vud-gold-awards-2003,1290773.html | url=https://www.gamepro.de/artikel/vud-gold-awards-2003,1290773.html | title=VUD-Gold-Awards 2003 | author=Horn, Andre | date=January 14, 2004 | magazine=[[GamePro|GamePro Germany]] | archive-date=July 18, 2018 | language=de | url-status=live }}</ref> It was the United States' best-selling computer game during the first half of 1999,<ref name=1999half>{{cite web | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000305180633/http://pc.ign.com:80/news/9273.html | url=http://pc.ign.com:80/news/9273.html | title=And the Winners Are... | author=IGN Staff | date=August 3, 1999 | work=[[IGN]] | archive-date=March 5, 2000 | url-status=dead }}</ref> and by the end of September had sold 470,000 units in the country. This drew revenues of almost $20 million.<ref name=pcxlsales>{{cite journal | author=Staff | title=X-Tra; Death of the PC | date=February 2000 | issue=18 | journal=[[PC Accelerator]] | pages=100, 101 }}</ref> It claimed second place for the year overall—behind ''[[Rollercoaster Tycoon]]''—with sales of 657,514 copies and revenues of $26.8 million. This gross was the highest that year for a computer game in the United States.<ref name=cgmnews4>{{cite web |author=Fudge, James |title=PC Data Top Selling PC Games for 1999 |url=http://www.cdmag.com:80/articles/025/147/pc_data_1999.html |work=[[Computer Games Magazine|Computer Games Strategy Plus]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000817183027/http://www.cdmag.com/articles/025/147/pc_data_1999.html |archive-date=August 17, 2000 |date=January 19, 2000 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2000, ''SimCity 3000''' placed ninth in the United States, with another 385,001 units sold. This earned an additional $10.5 million in revenue.<ref name=pcgsales>{{cite journal|author=Staff|date=April 2001|volume=8|issue=4|title=It's All in the Numbers|journal=[[PC Gamer]] |publisher=[[Future US]]|pages=40, 41 }}</ref>

In the United States, the game's ''Unlimited'' edition alone sold 1.1 million copies and earned $27.5 million by August 2006, after its release in January 2000. ''[[Edge (magazine)|Edge]]'' ranked it as the country's sixth best-selling computer game between January 2000 and August 2006, and the highest-selling ''SimCity'' title during that period. Combined sales of all ''SimCity'' computer games released between January 2000 and August 2006, including ''SimCity 3000 Unlimited'', had reached 3.4 million units in the United States by the latter date.<ref name=edgesales>{{cite magazine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017165955/http://www.edge-online.com/features/top-100-pc-games-21st-century/ |url=http://www.edge-online.com/features/top-100-pc-games-21st-century/ |title=The Top 100 PC Games of the 21st Century| author=''Edge'' Staff | date=August 25, 2006 |magazine=[[Edge (magazine)|Edge]] |archive-date=October 17, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''SimCity 3000: UK Edition'' received a "Platinum" sales award from the [[Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association]] (ELSPA),<ref name=platinumelspa>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090515224703/http://www.elspa.com/?i=3944 |url=http://www.elspa.com:80/?i=3944 |title=ELSPA Sales Awards: Platinum |work=[[Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association]] |archive-date=May 15, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> indicating sales of at least 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom.<ref name=gamasutrasales>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170918063107/https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/112220/ELSPA_Wii_Fit_Mario_Kart_Reach_Diamond_Status_In_UK.php |url=https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/112220/ELSPA_Wii_Fit_Mario_Kart_Reach_Diamond_Status_In_UK.php |title=ELSPA: ''Wii Fit'', ''Mario Kart'' Reach Diamond Status In UK | author=Caoili, Eric | date=November 26, 2008 |work=[[Gamasutra]] |archive-date=September 18, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

According to Maxis's [[Lucy Bradshaw (game developer)|Lucy Bradshaw]], ''SimCity 3000'' achieved global sales of 4.6 million units by January 2002. Using data from product registrations, she explained that the overall series' userbase was three-fourths male and one-fourth female at that time.<ref name=2001nyu>{{cite web | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040619191112/https://cat.nyu.edu/current/news/media/marklesimcity.pdf | url=https://cat.nyu.edu/current/news/media/marklesimcity.pdf | title=Markle Forum on Children and Media | author=Bradshaw, Lucy | author-link=Lucy Bradshaw (game developer) | date=January 31, 2002 | publisher=[[New York University]] | archive-date=June 19, 2004 | url-status=live }}</ref> The game sold 5 million copies worldwide by 2007.<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://news.ea.com/portal/site/ea/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&ndmConfigId=1013897&newsId=20071113005513&newsLang=en  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710163320/http://news.ea.com/portal/site/ea/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&ndmConfigId=1013897&newsId=20071113005513&newsLang=en |archive-date=2011-07-10 |title= SimCity Societies Ships to Retailers, Turning PC Gamers Everywhere into Shapers of Cultures   |date=2007-11-13 |publisher=[[Electronic Arts]] |access-date=2013-01-26}}</ref>