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Forums - Sales Discussion - PC sales data

sonnylu on 06 April 2007

Its great to have sales chart for Consoles/console games.


However, is there anywhere we can find some sales data for PC games?




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guigr on 07 April 2007

Well, if you're not working in the video games industry, you'll have no sales figures. Rankings can be found if you look around for US and the UK. What I can say is that the US represents roughly a good third of the PC game market, Europe is bigger (Germany is particulary HUGE).



johnlucas on 07 April 2007
ioi said:
PC data is even harder to come by than console data, but having said that we are hoping to include PC data in the near future so stay tuned!

Good! I've always been a little interested in how the PC market works myself.

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BenKenobi88 on 07 April 2007

I'm interested in how the games sell too.  It's pretty much impossible to record hardware sales though.



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FishyJoe on 07 April 2007

Another tricky thing is that sales don't record all the subscription fees that mmorpgs get. WoW has easily beaten every revenue record, console or pc. But if you were to just go by sales, it wouldn't show the majority of their revenue.



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Elendil on 07 April 2007
FishyJoe said:
Another tricky thing is that sales don't record all the subscription fees that mmorpgs get. WoW has easily beaten every revenue record, console or pc. But if you were to just go by sales, it wouldn't show the majority of their revenue.

 Also, sales date include just  retail, but in the PC market digital delivery is quite big: Steam (Valve's digital delivery platform) alone has over 10 millions of subscribers



andamanen on 08 April 2007

Still, any PC sales information would be nice, even if just to compare sales of games not sold digitally. And too bad Valve doesn't release any numbers from Steam.