Is it possible that COD4 sold/will sell 10 millions (or near it) on PC?

[shio]

Slimebeast said:

SleepWaking said:
Whatever you all just go ahead and flame shio, I'm sure it will sell close to 10 million on PC. Digital distribution is a lot bigger than everybody thinks here. But I don't want to go in any arguments because the only thing you will hear is: just prove it then. That while Stalker which was never the biggest seller on any list (retail or DD) is already over 2 millions, if Stalker did that (a game which most of you don't even know I bet) I'm sure COD 4 is over 4 million already if not more.

Where are  all these PC gamers that pay for digital download games? Why would people pay for a digital copy when they can go on torrent and get for on free just as easily.

 

Like DirtyP said, shio always exaggerates DD sales. Those $2 billion of money revenue in a year was mostly from WoW. DD revenue from other genres is small.

Why pay for 360 games when you can just pirate them?

 

And about the $2 billion figure, you and DirtyP are dead wrong. The horizon report estimated PC Gaming revenue in 2007 was $10.7 Billions:

Retail - $3.2 Billions
Digital Distribution - $2 Billions
Online - $4.8 billion
Advertisement - $800 millions

http://kotaku.com/5038833/pc-gaming-a-107-billion-industry

The $2 Billion DD sales in 2007 were purely from digital sales of PC games. That means Digital Distribution was around 2 thirds the size of Retail in 2007.

 

And let's not even talk about DD right now:

2008:

- Steam grows over 100%
- Gamersgate grows over 100%
- Stardock's Impulse launches
- Good Old Games launches
- Penny Arcade's Greenhouse launches

And this year Amazon launched it's Digital Games Download section, and Onlive and Gaikai will come out.