Just figured out some Steam sales!

[salaminizer]

Mendicate Bias said:

salaminizer said:

Mendicate Bias said:
So L4D sold around a million on steam? Since the majority of pc game sales now come from dd and adding in all the other digital distributing websites which are minuscule compared to steam I would say L4D sold 2 million on pc's and thats being very very generous. It's probably closer to around 1.5 million.

Very good sales numbers but not 4 times the 360 L4D sales numbers which is what you would have led us to believe before.

no, they don't come. it's estimated to be 25% of the full market (source), although it's obvious that some games see more digital sales than others.

Crysis one of the biggest pc games of the last 3 years only sold a little above a million at retail. A valve game getting released on their personal digital distribution system is going to be far more skewed towards dd than retail compared to other pc games. There is no way in hell L4D sold 4 million at retail which is what your trying to imply. It is completely reasonable to assume based off the given data that total L4D retail sales are anywhere between 1.5 to 2 million. Especially after you factor in the average number of people online for L4D which is far far too low for a multiplayer centric game that sold 5 million copies according to you. I don't have the raw online figures right now but I'll look them up for you when I get out of class.

nah, I don't think it sold 4 or 5 millions, but I don't think it sold only 1.5 million too, and Valve themselves said digital sales were just taking over retail last year, and I don't think the percentage is high. I also believe shio is too "conservative" regarding pre-orders and initial months, but I won't guess any numbers - it just seem too low for me having less than 200k pre-orders.