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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 7379260" data-attributes="member: 22424">This. The PHB is probably somewhere between 1 and 2 million units sold - if they'd hit even 2 million I would expect WotC to be shouting it from the rooftops, since that would make 5e by far the best-selling edition ever. (The 1st ed book is estimated at 1.5m copies sold, but the historical data makes it hard to be certain.)It's also worth noting that WotC's target is for their supplements to each sell 100,000+ units, and while they've said Xanathar's was the fastest selling supplement ever, they haven't claimed it's the best selling supplement ever (yet). So it's also probably somewhere between 100k and 200k units sold.So based on the simple numbers, it looks like the old pattern is still true: the majority of people playing the game still buy nothing, and the next largest buy the PHB and then nothing else. (And the next largest after that was a PHB plus one class book. So it will be interesting to see how the next player-side supplement does if and when that comes out.)(And, yes, there are a lot of 'estimate's and 'probably's there. Only WotC have the data to say for certain.)Agreed. It's a smart move.</blockquote>