Electronic Arts has to be pleased with the sales of their latest people sim game The Sims 3, . In a new press release it stated that the game has sold 1.4 million copies for the PC and Mac versions which EA said was the biggest PC game launch in its history. In addition, over 7 million downloads of user-created items for the game have also been recorded in its first week .

The Sims 3 is already a huge sales hit according to IGN's Direct2Drive sales list. Their latest top 10 sales list of their downloadable games has no less than four versions of The Sims 3 on the list. The first three spots are of the regular PC Sims 3 game in first place followed by the Mac version and the PC Sims 3 bundled with a Prima strategy guide. The Mac Sims 3 with strategy guide came in at number eight on the top 10 list. You can bet that The Sims 3 will be on that list for some time to come.