| naznatips said: http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/51482 Linking this article for a reason. In it Valve says that The Orange Box sold over 1 million on 360 and another few hundred thousand on PS3 (reporting shipped of course) but that the PC sales of the game were signifficantly higher than both combined by the double digit percentages. This implies that The Orange Box has sold well over 2 million on PC, and much of that was on Steam. So yes, as Shio said, CoD4 sales on PC could easily be well over 1 million now given how it's charted in sales tracking. Lombardi goes on to say the PC market is healthy, but not in American retail sales. He says in other countries like Germany PC games outsell console games in retail and digital distribution is thriving. |
Actually, the COD4's 1 million figure I mentioned was for Direct Download sales only, not sure if you caught that. The fact that COD4 outsold Orange Box on Steam, and COD4 is actually selling in other DD services (unlike OB).
And if you add the impressive Sims-like performance of COD4 at the retailers (allied with the usual long shelf life of PC games), COD4 could sell 10 million copies on PC in it's lifetime.
Also, a copy of the PC retail version is more profitable than the console version. But the real difference is the profit of the DD version which, if we go by Steam's scheme, makes it a $35 for each sold! That's 3 times more profitable than the console version and 2 times more profitable than the PC retail version. That means 1 million sold on DD equals to 3 million sold on consoles.
