Slimebeast said:
shio said:
Slimebeast said:
While 4 million copies across 3 games might sound a lot you have to bare in mind that the revenue from each copy is nowhere near the revenue from console games.
The majority of those STALKER copies were sold at only $15 a piece, and even $10 in Eastern Europe where the majority of sales for STALKER are.
Each copy sold brings $10 if very lucky (a console game gives $25), which means only $40 million in total revenue over 6-7 years of development. And certainly publisher THQ must have snatched some of that. Fortunately the developer is based in Ukraina because that revenue simply wouldn't have been enough for a Western developer to pay its workforce.
Nowadays apart from Blizzard the only non-MMO big budget PC exclusives are made in Eastern Europe due to the lower dev costs. Such is the state of the PC gaming market.
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You have to be kidding me. Console developers get only $7 per game sold at full price! Retailers, Distributors, Console Manufacturers and Publishers snatch up everything else.
The Stalker games spent nothing for marketing, and much of the sales were on digital services. The budget is no doubt miniscule compared to the average AAA console game, although some of it is due to the fact that it's cheaper to develop on PC.
The part that you should really think about is how so many PC developers are flourishing and increasing, while console developers are stagnant, declining or even closing doors.
As for your last paragraph, it just tells me that you know nothing of the fact that more and more AAA games are coming to PC, while it's dwindling on consoles. After all, aren't consoles declining sales in the past year and half, while PC sales keep growing?
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Ill reply to that other stuff later, but about AAA games on PC you have to be kidding. Like always, most AAA games also get a PC version yes (Call of Duty, Dead Space 2, Rage, Fallout Vegas, Dragon Age 2 and so on), but upcoming AAA PC exclusives are really scarce. The only one I know of is Diabolo 3, while The Witcher 2, Stalker 2 and Civ 5 are semi-AAA or AA.
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I lost you there. Civilization is one of the most critically acclaimed series in whole gaming world. If that is not AAA I don't know what is.
