| mrstickball said: shio is indeed using a blanket statement, having absolutely no facts to back up any DD sales claim he's making. That's why I, and others at VGC (along with other DD leaders) are looking into exploring ways of aggregating Steam's sales numbers, in hopes of finding out how well they are. If you want to use 18-24k concurrent users as being a massive number of units, projecting to millions of sales, I must ask what you think of Halo 3 and other games having 5x that many concurrent users at any given time. Furthermore, what about all the 'other' non-Valve games on Steam that are reporting a few dozen, or hundred users at any given time like your much-touted AudioSurf? Wouldn't that equal out to just above 10,000 sales for such a game? If so, then I guess Steam is an utter failure at the DD model for anyone but themselves. |
Easy, there's 3 reasons why Halo 3 players probably have a much higher concurrent users:
- Xbox 360 is a dedicated gaming machine. Meaning players won't get out of their games to see websites, work, etc...
- Xbox 360 audience is younger. Means they have more free time than the more mature PC audience.
- Xbox 360 has nowhere near the amount of competitive games that PC has. Which means Halo 3 doesn't have much competition from other FPS on X360.
I don't trust VGChartz when it comes to compare the PC version of games. About COD4, when Activision said that COD4 sold 7 millions on PC (Jan 25), 360 and PS3, when you add the VGC numbers of PS360 it comes out 6.5 millions (Up to Week 11), leaving only 500k to PC:
I mean, the PC version of COD4 sold 383k in the US in November+December. So COD4 would have to sell only 117k in UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Benelux and most of January in the US.
I just foud an article from Nielsen that says that the average COD4 PC player in 2008 only played 403mins (6.7 hours) per week, though it was taken from a very small sample of 1200 players: http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/56580
EDIT: ignore taht bit about the graph. We would need to only include VGC's numbers from the markets said above in the graph, which isn't what it showed.
