| Panama said:
You're definitely right, though with PC I just feel as though the major markets lie in the MMORPG and F2P genres. MW3 on the 360 has about 500k active players at any one time i believe, whereas MW3 on PC has about 70, which is steams 2nd to 3rd most played title. It's not really steams fault, but more to do with PC gaming in general. There's so much variety as to what you can play that you'll be hardpressed to get incredibly large fanbases for any single game that is available on steam. It's just more apparent to me since I live in Australia. For instance from the 70k playing MW3 i doubt even 5% are from Australia. I never have problems finding local matches on console no matter how old the title is. Fat princess for example is still going strong, though It could just be insanely popular and I don't know. Meanwhile elsewhere, you have WoW, Swtor, LoL, and Maple Story with 100s of thousands of active players outdoing console games. |
just thought of something BF3 is the 4th most played game on XBL http://majornelson.com/2011/12/15/live-activity-for-week-of-december-5th/ yet there is only arround 20-80k people playing the 360 version at any time I have checked BF3 http://bf3stats.com, which isn't far off steam numbers.
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