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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 05 March 2015

Hmm, there is something odd about this cause if you look at this chart from the same site, a lot of the games are missing on the first chart that the OP posted. This is on page 2 btw

And then according to this, Skyrim sold 6 million so its even more weird! This is an older date btw



http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/04/introducing-steam-gauge-ars-reveals-steams-most-popular-games/

So I think the way we are reading the charts is wrong



                  

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kumagawa on 06 March 2015
Captain_Yuri said:

Hmm, there is something odd about this cause if you look at this chart from the same site, a lot of the games are missing on the first chart that the OP posted. This is on page 2 btw
 

And then according to this, Skyrim sold 6 million so its even more weird! This is an older date btw

 

So I think the way we are reading the charts is wrong


My chart was most owned/downloaded games released in 2014.

Your first chart is best selling games sold in 2014 regardless of year of release.

Your second chart is most owned games in general.

Skyrim has sold nearly 6 million copies, 3 million of those copies were in 2014 as that's when it went on sale the most.



ArchangelMadzz on 06 March 2015

How... underwhelming?



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Alby_da_Wolf on 06 March 2015
kumagawa said:
Captain_Yuri said:

Hmm, there is something odd about this cause if you look at this chart from the same site, a lot of the games are missing on the first chart that the OP posted. This is on page 2 btw
 

And then according to this, Skyrim sold 6 million so its even more weird! This is an older date btw

 

So I think the way we are reading the charts is wrong


My chart was most owned/downloaded games released in 2014.

Your first chart is best selling games sold in 2014 regardless of year of release.

Your second chart is most owned games in general.

Skyrim has sold nearly 6 million copies, 3 million of those copies were in 2014 as that's when it went on sale the most.

Thanks! Those charts were puzzling me and I'm so sleepy this morning that I had no hope to decode them. 



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GTAexpert on 06 March 2015

Most of these games are free. I guess we now know why Rockstar wasn't in a hurry to release GTA V on PC, its probably gonna sell well but only after a few years when its on sale.



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Barkley on 06 March 2015

The Hell? Call of Duty: Advance Warfare didn't sell more than 1.17 million on steam?

This chart really does not look right. But then again I just checked it's peak players and it's only 15,000... AAA games sell even worse on steam compared to consoles than I thought.



Alby_da_Wolf on 06 March 2015
GTAexpert said:
Most of these games are free. I guess we now know why Rockstar wasn't in a hurry to release GTA V on PC, its probably gonna sell well but only after a few years when its on sale.


Full priced games sell well on PC too, for example The Witcher series biggest platform still is the PC. GTA series OTOH is not very suitable to PC, as it contains arcade driving parts, and the standard PC interface, mouse+keyboard, totally sucks for driving, OTOH a console controller is a good compromise as a standard controller suitable to games like GTA without requiring to purchase another controller. Just like RTS', but also RPGs with a party, not a single player character, mostly suck without a mouse. Neither the former, nor the latter are suitable to devise a general rule about how games sell on PC or consoles respectively, as htey are designed ti fit better the standard interface of just one of them.



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GTAexpert on 06 March 2015
Alby_da_Wolf said:
GTAexpert said:
Most of these games are free. I guess we now know why Rockstar wasn't in a hurry to release GTA V on PC, its probably gonna sell well but only after a few years when its on sale.


Full priced games sell well on PC too, for example The Witcher series biggest platform still is the PC. GTA series OTOH is not very suitable to PC, as it contains arcade driving parts, and the standard PC interface, mouse+keyboard, totally sucks for driving, OTOH a console controller is a good compromise as a standard controller suitable to games like GTA without requiring to purchase another controller. Just like RTS', but also RPGs with a party, not a single player character, mostly suck without a mouse. Neither the former, nor the latter are suitable to devise a general rule about how games sell on PC or consoles respectively, as htey are designed ti fit better the standard interface of just one of them.

But FPS are more suitable to PC than consoles, yet none of 2014's FPS games made it here

Also, GTA has always been popular on PC, but mostly has been pirated or bought by consumers only after a massive sale. Having preferences to one platform over another doesn't you from buying a game on that one platform, if that's all you have, but for some reason it matters for PC-only gamers? I don't think so.



Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 06 March 2015
Ka-pi96 said:
kumagawa said:


My chart was most owned/downloaded games released in 2014.

Your first chart is best selling games sold in 2014 regardless of year of release.

Your second chart is most owned games in general.

Skyrim has sold nearly 6 million copies, 3 million of those copies were in 2014 as that's when it went on sale the most.

Yeah, it all makes sense. You just need to look at what each chart is about.

Yea I don't think the numbers or the charts are right at all... According to that site, skyrim sold 3 million on steam in 2014 alone... 3 Million in one year? No wai

And the whole nba 2k15 sold 3.8 million on steam? Thats nuts! I don't think we should be trusting this site with steam numbers at all



                  

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Chazore on 06 March 2015
Ka-pi96 said:
Barkley said:

The Hell? Call of Duty: Advance Warfare didn't sell more than 1.17 million on steam?

This chart really does not look right. But then again I just checked it's peak players and it's only 15,000... AAA games sell even worse on steam compared to consoles than I thought.

Really puts things into perspective doesn't it? Consoles not so dead after all

Yeah instead it's PC gaming that's "dying", all over again like this image describes:



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