shio on 15 July 2009
| Slimebeast said: 10 million is crazy talk. CoD4 is exactly the type of PC game that gets pirated, not bought. Activision or rather Infinity Ward said that PC sales were rufly a 10th of how much CoD4 sold on consoles (although this was just a couple of months after release, and I agree that PC has longer legs). I'd guess Activision meant 7 million copies shipped in 2007. Probably a bad worded press release that made shio believe they meant 7 million sold at retail to customers. My estimation is that CoD 4 sold 2-2.5 million on PC, but many of those copies have probably been sold cheap on Steam at $15 or $20 a piece. |
If a PC game sells 2 millions in less than 2 months, without declining rapidly, it can very well reach 10 millions. At least that is what I believe.
Infinity Ward never said anything about PC sales. They only ever talked about piracy, which in my opinion is silly because, like any sane devs would know, you have to look at is sales.
Why would COD4 sell only 2.5 millions? In it's first year it was selling around Sims/WoW level and was best seller in digital distribution. Also, COD4 never had a price cut :\ It is still selling at $50 everywhere (though I think there were a couple of weekend deals on Steam and D2D)
