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Alterego-X on 16 November 2009
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waron said:
Alterego-X said:
waron said:
about the pc revenue figures - how much comes from mmo games? 50-60%?
revenue from games like NFS Shift, Prototype, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Street Fighter 4, Resident Evil 5, Mirror's Edge, Shaun White Snowboarding or Dead Space was abysmal at best.
only MMOs and niche games do good and good for niche games means 100-150k lifetime.

Wait... 

First,, you argue that PC gaming is smaller, because there is a single important genre, while console gaming has many smaller genres.

After that, you add that PC has tons of niche genres, as opposed to consoles having only a few mainstream games.

i'm talking about the fact that mainstream games don't have a chance to make any profit or brake even - most of them are released on pcs only because they were made on them in the first place before they were ported to consoles. i'm not talking about niche genres but niche games. 

probably 70-80% of the whole pc market is made of MMOs, The Sims, casual games, flash and website based games.

besides that the only thing we have right now on PCs are either classic rpgs, simulations or strategy games(i'm not talking here about rts but all kinds of management, 4X titles etc.). there are certain mainstream games that had a some kind of success on PCs like Modern Warfare or Left 4 Dead but mostly due to community(moders) and online.

You already listed probably more genres that are popular on a single console. 

About 80% of the popular x360 games are FPS TPS RPG, or sports games.

About 80% of the popular PC games are either MMO, RTS, Sim, Strategy, casual games, flash games (that alone is lots of genres), OR one of those "certain mainstream games".