richardhutnik said:
What 10s of millions were going to buy Modern Warfare 2? How copies of the PC version of COD4 were sold? Someone here said it outsold the console versions, making COD4 a 20+ million total sales title, which it hasn't shown to me. Millions of pirated copies of a gamer doesn't matter to a game company at all. And if a game is pirated at a rate of 10 copies for every sale, then that is a pandemic problem. Have any idea what the total sales for COD4 were on the PC? There is indication that piracy was rampant though: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2008/01/17/call_of_duty_4_piracy_is_rampant/1 |
Tens of millions of dollars, not units. Noone is saying CoD4 sold tens of millions of units on PC, but Acti pockets somewhere in the range of 30-40$ per unit sold, so if it sits at around 6% on PC and that = 500k units, where PC sales should be in the 15-20% of console range... for easy math lets just triple the figure and say a million sales, or roughly speaking somewhere in the range of 30-40 million dollars lost give or take. Very rough numbers to be sure, but worst case its definately over 10million$ lost... best case - could be as high as 60-70 million$ over the course of a couple years... so its not chump change.
As for piracy, that has no relevance here. Unless you are going to try and assert that the general piracy rate has changed very recently and very drastically and there is no evidence to support that.
