I remember hearing about Neverwinter Nights a mere two days before release. Didn't have time to pre-order it and went to EB at my local mall to get it the day it came out and I was worried it would be sold out. Get there and there's just a huge pyramid of copies of the game right at the entrance.

People only didn't buy them back in the day because most people didn't have a PC. If they were available on a console at the time, I'm sure they would have sold a lot more.