Nintendo: The Strategy Is To Not Pull A Sega

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pokoko said:

Smear-Gel said:

pokoko said:
"Lastly, PC sales are a cause for concern. Many developers are afraid to bring their games to PC because they know it will get pirated and generally have very low sales."

Sorry, stopped reading there. Author seems to be making things up.

I dont understand, isnt this a real and legitimate concern developers have?

Are they?  What are the sources for that?  Let's take a look at Ubisoft data from this summer:

"Breaking down the company's revenues by platform, the PlayStation 4 accounted for 36 percent of all sales, more than twice that of any other system. The Xbox One and PlayStation 3 were next with 17 percent of sales each, while the PC and Xbox 360 trailed with 14 percent each."

That's 14 percent from a console-centered publisher.  That's a far cry from "very low sales".  Speaking of which, from Ubisoft's 2012-2013 3Q sales conference call, Far Cry 3 sold 3.5 million on console, 1 million on PC.  Not that much lower than each individual console and certainly worth the effort.

That varies widely, of course, with some games not doing quite that well and others doing much, much better on PC.

I dont know about low sales, but I was under the understanding that piracy on PC was a big problem.