NotStan said:
No I am implying most of those sales occurs on heavy sales, albeit 90% is a bit drastic, in most cases it's 25/50/75 till majority of the sales start rolling in. Outside of few indie darlings or established franchises such as HL/RA/(Pretty much every blizzard game), there are only a few games that do sell decently enough to justify porting, especially with hiked up console prices when compared with the PC pricing. |
It's hard to say, how much porting costs are though. Particularly when porting from the 360, which is similar, and if they do a piss poor job (assasins creed 2 :P) and don't enhance it like most do.
I do think piracy is an issue, (which is why I think arkham city got delayed a month, and more games seem to be getting delayed then ported at a later date). But, after the initial push, used game sales etc start becoming a factor as well so I think that's why publishers wait.
However alan wake port made a profit the first day it was released according to remedy, and this port was a very good.
