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r505Matt on 15 February 2010
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shio said:
thekitchensink said:
shio said:
thekitchensink said:
I'd say it's dying--check out the sales of Modern Warfare 2 PC vs the PS3 and 360 versions.

not that I want MW2 to be successful on PC (I hope MW2 PC failed completely), but where can we find the figures of the PC version? Unless Activision releases some figures, anyone that says the PC version was outsold by the PS360's is trolling.

Sorry to disappoint you, but... http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=5826 

"VGChartz preliminary day one figures puts the sales to date (including the midnight launches) at over 7 million copies worldwide across Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. Around 55% of sales are on Xbox 360, 33% on PS3 and the remaining 12% on PC."

 

Unless the sales patterns have changed dramatically, the PS3 version has roughly tripled the PC version, and that's to say nothing of the 360 version.  And this is a franchise that got its start (and became famous) on the PC.

Not to rain on your parade, but PC being 12% despite not even counting Digital sales means that it would outsell atleast the PS3 version, if it weren't for the fact that MW2 PC is such a crappy version.

PC games aren't front loaded, and they keep selling for years. If the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 was great, and if Activision didn't release another COD, there's no doubt that MW2 would reach 10 millions on PC alone.

I would completely agree except in the case of MW2 especially, plenty of people are pirating it out of spite (people that planned to buy it). The no dedicated servers, limiting the player count, lack of console commands, general shitty attitude (interviewer-"well what does it have?" Rep for IW-"keyboard and mouse support"). All of these things pissed off plenty of people.

Pirating isn't the right answer, it just makes devs/pubs care even less for PC gaming. Too bad Act/IW doesn't seem to care about consumers. Not that I'd expect them to, but I'd expect them to listen to complaints in a serious manner.

Personally, I've resolved to not buy another IW game but that's just my own way to deal with this.