PC Gaming Is So Dead That 63% Of American Gamers Game on PC, Beating Smartphones and Handhelds

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zarx said:

DamnTastic said:

Pemalite said:

Well. PC you get higher profit margins on games sold, you don't have Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo taking a percentage of the sale.

Valve takes 30% of every game sold on steam.

which is about the same as the XBLA cut and the PSN cut. For retail it's worse tho

less than 50% to the publisher

Also on consoles you have to pay for cert and dev kitts.

Very interesting.  Essentially games could be sold for $40-$50 at the same profit margins if sold direct from sony/MS digitally.  They better sell new games for $55 at the most then in their dgital form...