Call of Duty 4 to be the Best Selling Shooter Ever

[naznatips]

Radziel said:

naznatips said:
Well, I don't think there is any real concern that PC gaming is dead. Just a few noisy console developers like Cliffy B. PC sales in NA aren't great, but digital distribution and the European and Asian markets are thriving.

 

PC is a true heaven for small projects, but big budget games is a totally different story.

thriving you say? hard to agree on that one. if we exclude mmo's there's nothing much left.

A lot of big budget games have had great success on the PC. Valve reported 158% sales increase in holiday 07 on Steam over holiday 06. That's pretty huge. Plus, you can't discount the fact that a publisher makes twice as much selling a game on Steam for the same price that they sell it on retail becuase Steam eliminates retail markups and just leaves publishing fees.

There's a lot left on PC... it's just not visible to NPD. NPD is basically just an irrelevant incidental number when analyzing the PC market.