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Forums - Sales Discussion - Valve: L4D pushes 2.5 million at retail!

The Anarchyz on 27 March 2009

I'll say buy it, it's amazing... PC if you have a good enough one, if not, 360...



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averyblund on 27 March 2009

Great game. I prefer the PC version but it is great either way.



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canch on 28 March 2009

I still believe the PC version as sold more copies via steam.  We will never know unless valve releases some figures.

But anyway L4D is just a really fun game, someone stated that it only has 4 maps.  It has only 4 maps but it plays diffence everytime you play.  For the best experience you gota play with other people, I found single player just too boring.  But I have cyper space friends on Steam who I play with all the time and the fun never ends.

I only play co-op on expert now.



PC gaming rules.....

vlad321 on 28 March 2009

Goes to show you that if your game isn't shit on the PC and it is geared mainly for the PC it will sell well.



Tag(thx fkusumot) - "Yet again I completely fail to see your point..."

HD vs Wii, PC vs HD: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=93374

Why Regenerating Health is a crap game mechanic: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3986420

gamrReview's broken review scores: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4170835

 

Oyvoyvoyv on 28 March 2009
vlad321 said:
Goes to show you that if your game isn't shit on the PC and it is geared mainly for the PC it will sell well.

 

 Well, Valve/Blizzard making games for PC is a bit like Nintendo making games for Wii/DS, so I wouldn't say it proves a lot.

 

Valve games almost ALWAYS sell a lot.



http://www.vgchartz.com/games/userreviewdisp.php?id=261

That is VGChartz LONGEST review. And it's NOT Cute Kitten DS

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Feylic on 28 March 2009

Well this is what happens when you fill a game with awesome.



vlad321 on 28 March 2009
Oyvoyvoyv said:
vlad321 said:
Goes to show you that if your game isn't shit on the PC and it is geared mainly for the PC it will sell well.

 

 Well, Valve/Blizzard making games for PC is a bit like Nintendo making games for Wii/DS, so I wouldn't say it proves a lot.

 

Valve games almost ALWAYS sell a lot.

 

Not really no. They sell well because they aren't dumbed down console games. They are made for PCs and only for PCs with maybe a pot to consoles by a handful of peeps, not vice versa. They are aslso very good games.



Tag(thx fkusumot) - "Yet again I completely fail to see your point..."

HD vs Wii, PC vs HD: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=93374

Why Regenerating Health is a crap game mechanic: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3986420

gamrReview's broken review scores: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4170835

 

Elendil on 28 March 2009
Oyvoyvoyv said:
heruamon said:
Oyvoyvoyv said:

Hmm... Is that 2.5M across PC + X360? I believe it is.

 

If so, it's only sold 500K on PC (retail).

 

Unless this is Americas only (which I doubt), that's rather dissapointing. Team Fortress 2 sold 3 million retail (if I recall correctly).

 

Of course, it won't stop at 500K, but it probably won't beat 1M.

 

 

It doesn't include steam, as Valve is VERY secretive about that information, but we know it's posted monster numbers on the service...like that 3000% increase in sales when they did that sale a while back.  Even if the game was only selling 20-30K before that...3000% would be massive!

Yeah, I know it's retail only.

 

However, here's the retail data of some other titles.

Half-Life: 9.3 million units
Half-Life 2: 6.5 million units
Counter-Strike: 4.2 million units
The Orange Box: 3 million units
Counter-Strike Condition Zero: 2.9 million units
Counter-Strike Source: 2.1 million units
Counter-Strike Xbox Port: 1.5 million units
Half-Life 2 Episode 1: 1.4 million units
Half-Life Opposing Force: 1.1 million units
Half-Life Blue Shift: 800,000 units

That's as of sometime in December.

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=52001

 

Your mistake is considering PC game sales with the trends of console game sales. PC games are long seller, when console games (with the exception of some Nintendo titles) are fast seller.

HL2 went out in 2004. At the end of 2004, it sold 1,7 millions, at the end of 2005 it sold 4 millions, at september 2008 6,5 millions.

And also, you don't consider that Steam sales % on total PC sales is growing up quickly.

 



xxxvitoxxx on 28 March 2009

deserves it



JaggedSac on 28 March 2009

vlad, you keep bringing up the fact that games are dumbed down for consoles. Please explain to me how the fps genre has been dumbed down. And keep in mind, I know your favorite fps games are UT04 and Quake 3. And I know these games are about as simple as they come, UT04 has more going on than Quake 3, but still is quite simplistic. Now please, enlighten me.