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Forums - Gaming - People say PC games dont sell?? (Continued with more sales)

Of course they sell, they just do it much less than consoles and with much lower price points.

Late ports, bad ports, consoles exclusives, all of that B-treatment has a reason, and for companies it's just that they get less money there.



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Wright said:

It's clearly evident PC games don't sell well, even if Steam tries to say otherwise. Look at Bloodborne, for example. Why would it be exclusive for a console? Because it sells more on such console. Obviously the community on PC isn't as strong as it seems.

Is this supposed to be taken as a serous post? Bloodborne is exclusive because Sony paid for it to be exclusive.

This is the same thing as me saying "Obviously the console community isn't as strong as it seems, because you see all these non-exclusive multiplats going to PC as well. So they must sell much more on PC".



zero129 said:

So some people and console users like to say PC games dont sell. You hear this many a time no matter what site you visit.

Well id like to show you today how PC games do sell with states to back it up .

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Sales@12,646,551 and rising

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Sales@29,776,663

Left 4 Dead 2 Sales@11,887,406

PAYDAY 2 Sales@4,419,223

DayZ Sales@3,137,882

Thats just a few ill post more later or tomorrow but the point is PC games (Not only mobas/MMOs) do sell .

I do hope you realize that this isn't actually very good information to use as evidence of sales.



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There are launch sales and lifetime sales. Especially on Steam, alot of the stuff sells alot at low prices. Launch sales are still considerably higher on consoles.



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well if i have PC why would i buy, i will just torrented LOl, and i think most of PC sales gone from there and steam sales.



Captain_Yuri said:
Hell yea! PC games will always sell well hence why we are getting so many ports this generation! Why else would we get No Mans Sky and SFV from PS and Fable and Dead Rising 3 from Xbox? As well as MGS and etc. I think PC gaming is growing more and more

But with that being said, ~30 million skyrim sales? Wtf??

The Skyrim mod community is immense.



Wright said:

It's clearly evident PC games don't sell well, even if Steam tries to say otherwise. Look at Bloodborne, for example. Why would it be exclusive for a console? Because it sells more on such console. Obviously the community on PC isn't as strong as it seems.


Its exclusive for a console because Sony worked out a publishing deal with From Software and co developed it. If Sony did none of these things I'm sure that Bloodborne would have been multiplat.



Skyrim is just a beast.



I have a different curiosity from most of the thread here: how many of those 30 million owners of Skyrim have actually booted up and played the game for a longer stretch of time than, let's say, 2-3 hours? Considering the game had a free weekend and there were a number of sales related to it over time - as I seem to recall - I believe it's valid to think if the install base is of people actually making a deliberate decision to buy this game, compared to people just having it added to their game library or making an impulse buy based on a very low price - as I just did with Child of Light on the PS4 -.