Gaming: "Farming Simulator 19 sold over one million copies in 10 days"

I don't get it. Granted, not being a gamer or a farmer I'm probably missing something but finding a million people who want to shell out $40 to $90 per (depending on the edition) seems quite amazing.

From Gamespot:

Farming Simulator 19 Sells 1 Million Copies After 10 Days, Sets New Franchise Sales Record
The PS4, Xbox One, and PC game is doing quite well.

The newest Farming Simulator game got off to a strong start. Farming Simulator 19 sold more than 1 million combined physical and digital copies over its first 10 days, it was announced today. A press release points out that the success is particularly notable given that Farming Simulator 19's release date--November 20--came amid a busy season for blockbuster releases....MORE

The report goes on to note:

...The game also adds a major new license in John Deere, along with a number of new locations in America and Europe to create and expand a farm. The game also adds rideable horses for the first time.

HT to and headline from VideoGamer who add this tidbit:

...Farming Simulator has been knocking around for a while now, and is pretty popular in European countries. The series has sold over 15 million units worldwide.

Is it the Germans?
It seems like something the Germans might get into, sort of like Cowboys and Deutschlanders or whatever that craze was called.
Yeah, it's gotta be the German's, as narrated in hushed received pronunciation:

Some compare it to snooker, others to figure skating. But for those who have given their lives to competitive ploughing, it’s more than a sport, it’s a way of life

That's from The Guardian's coverage of the World Ploughing Championships. Here's the first paragraph:.

On 31 August, the night before the first day of the World Ploughing Championship, the bar of the Hotel Fortuna in the small German town of Reutlingen was crammed with the global ploughing elite. The scene resembled a low-key United Nations afterparty – Swiss, Kenyans, Australians, Latvians, Canadians and French, all slugging back long glasses of German beer. The top flight of international ploughing is a limited pool, the same faces recurring every year, and so the atmosphere was jovial, like a school reunion, 50-odd ploughmen and two ploughwomen (the sport has historically been dominated by men) hailing each other affectionately across the room. Much of the talk concerned the wild boar who had apparently dug up the field where the following day’s competition would take place. But there was something else in the air too, a bonhomie edged with rivalry. They were here to win....