Modern Warfare 2 - 860.000 Pirated Downloads

[Ail]

MAFKKA said:

Ail said:

shio said:

Garnett said:

No wonder why devs are moving away from PC gaming, even Shio cant defend this.

Actually it's easy to defend it since PC Gaming Revenue is outgrowing Console Gaming Revenue in 2009.

Another crazy comment coming from nowhere and with no data to back it up by our friend Shio.....

 

Look at EA, Activision ( minus Wow), Take2, Konami, Capcom, Ubisoft. So which one of those had PC revenue growing faster than console revenue exactly ? None..

All the big one aside Blizzard ( because their games are designed for PC and exclusives) are slowly leaving the ship...

Now sure, Indie revenue or flash games revenue may be growing but who really cares ?

Give it a few years and all that you find on the PC are MMORPGS , RTS and a few leftover PC exclusives. All the big console franchises will stop releasing PC ports...

"Speaking at the Games Convention Developer’s Conference in Leipzig, PCGA president Randy Stude announced that PC gaming was a $10.7 billion industry during the year of 2007,"[...]"“By pioneering new business models, the PC has quietly remained the single leading platform for games, not only in terms of consumer usage, but revenue generation,” said David Cole, an analyst with DFC Intelligence."

"A new report from the PC Gaming Alliance into the state of the platform in 2008 has revealed that the "largest single platform for games" took around USD 11 billion over the course of the 12 months."

""The biggest story in PC games is the expansion beyond retail," said Randy Stude, president of PCGA. "PC games have successfully pioneered online subscription and distribution models that have resulted in a global boom that shows no signs of slowing. Despite the advances of the likes of Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, the online platform that remains the most accessible and robust worldwide is the PC.""

And across all Consoles "Console market revenue growth will hit a high of $12.8 billion in 2007 and in 2008 U.S"

"VentureBeat reports the figures, which show online gaming posting a 22 percent year-over-year boost in players from May 2008 to May 2009. Coincidentally, the number fits with a 23 percent slide in console game revenues (attributed to NPD), and the 20 percent reduction in console game sales some analysts expect for the second quarter of this year."

I ain't denying there is some stuff working on the pc, the issue is that it's not the big console franchises. Revenue from those is declining...