GProgrammer said:
No thats incorrect as someone whos worked many years developing games on both consoles and PC, consoles is another ball game, Sure together PC games they make quite a bit of revenue but the Billion dollar elephant in the room though is theres far more competition thus that revenue gets divided up amongst far more games, eg look at the link you supplied, the #1 game on steam only brought in $78 million dollars for the whole year, for console games #1 you're often talking in greater than a billion dollars revenue, theres no comparison. Read the link you supplied 5,245 new games launched on steam last year, which are competeing with the thousands of games already available on the steam store. With consoles you're only talking about hundreds of new titles a year not thousands. Read gamasutra.com etc most PC games don't make a profit at all, in fact more than half actually lose money |
True for the individual game developers. We were talking about Steam profitting though. That link also says that Steam revenue was flat year over year while indeed the amount of games released on Steam is exploding. And with an average sale price of $9.50 per games, there's not a lot of profit for individual developers. Yet I'm sure Steam takes the same cut from that 3.5 billion regardless.
But true, apart from games not getting drowned in the flood on consoles, if you look at where the big publishers make the most money on AAA games it's mostly ps4 > PC > XBox One > rest, and all consoles combined PC is a much smaller slice.
