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Zkuq on 18 October 2016

That graph is lacking numbers, the thread title says 'barely any money' which is clearly not the case judging by the graph, the graph only takes into account revenue from additional content and not selling the game itself, and the PC version was late by a pretty long while. Basically it sounds like the title and the content of this thread don't match at all, and they're both ignoring the fact that the game was released much later on PC.

And despite the late release, according to Steam Spy the game has about 5.6 million owners on PC, which is a lot of revenue. Assuming $30 of profit per copy, that's a total profit of $168 million. I wouldn't call it 'barely any money'. Of course that's not an accurate figure, but should give a rough idea about what we're talking about here.



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torok on 18 October 2016
KLXVER said:
Probably because many PC gamers bought a console for GTAV. Still surprised at how bad it did on PC though.

Supposing that this had any effect is ridiculous. 2013 was a pretty mediocre year for PS360 sales to imagine that millions of PC gamers bought them to play GTA V. We had the next-gen version, but it wasn't launched a lot earlier than the PC version.



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KLXVER on 18 October 2016
torok said:
KLXVER said:
Probably because many PC gamers bought a console for GTAV. Still surprised at how bad it did on PC though.

Supposing that this had any effect is ridiculous. 2013 was a pretty mediocre year for PS360 sales to imagine that millions of PC gamers bought them to play GTA V. We had the next-gen version, but it wasn't launched a lot earlier than the PC version.

Guess most PC gamers dont really care about GTA then...



Valdath on 18 October 2016
Pinkie_pie said:

 

 

Oneeee-Chan!!! said:
Good news for PS5 and Xbox Two : )

And nx

Do you think it will release on NX?

 

I have my doubts.



torok on 18 October 2016
Zkuq said:
And despite the late release, according to Steam Spy the game has about 5.6 million owners on PC, which is a lot of revenue. Assuming $30 of profit per copy, that's a total profit of $168 million. I wouldn't call it 'barely any money'. Of course that's not an accurate figure, but should give a rough idea about what we're talking about here.

It sold 60M copies on console. It actually sold a got 20M close to launch at 60 bucks. Even considering only game sales, it still dwarfs the PC version by 10:1, not that different from the aditional content plot.



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deskpro2k3 on 18 October 2016
Zkuq said:
That graph is lacking numbers, the thread title says 'barely any money' which is clearly not the case judging by the graph, the graph only takes into account revenue from additional content and not selling the game itself, and the PC version was late by a pretty long while. Basically it sounds like the title and the content of this thread don't match at all, and they're both ignoring the fact that the game was released much later on PC.

And despite the late release, according to Steam Spy the game has about 5.6 million owners on PC, which is a lot of revenue. Assuming $30 of profit per copy, that's a total profit of $168 million. I wouldn't call it 'barely any money'. Of course that's not an accurate figure, but should give a rough idea about what we're talking about here.

 

well, according to IGN, GTAV made 800 million on day one. So yeah, going by your figures and the one from IGN, the gap is pretty big.



torok on 18 October 2016
KLXVER said:

Guess most PC gamers dont really care about GTA then...

Looking at Steam Spy, it is the 25th PC game with more owners on Steam. Considering that 13 of the games ahead of it are f2p and that we also have games like Skyrim and Portal that are older and were already heavily discounted, it is one of the best selling PC games on Steam. Games sell less on PC than consoles.

Anyway, I don't think RDR2 will skip PC, that's the point of this thread. They probably had too much work with the PS4 and X1 versions and will release the PC version a bit latter. I don't think it will take as long as GTAV since they don't have to make the game work on PS360.



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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 18 October 2016

"Additional Content Sales" is not the same as "making bearly any money"

The original red dead was console exclusive while GTA 4 came to PC. So I m sure there is a reason for it...



                  

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pokoko on 18 October 2016

Either that's a terrible and misleading thread title or the OP is incredibly low-effort.



KLXVER on 18 October 2016
torok said:
KLXVER said:

Guess most PC gamers dont really care about GTA then...

Looking at Steam Spy, it is the 25th PC game with more owners on Steam. Considering that 13 of the games ahead of it are f2p and that we also have games like Skyrim and Portal that are older and were already heavily discounted, it is one of the best selling PC games on Steam. Games sell less on PC than consoles.

Anyway, I don't think RDR2 will skip PC, that's the point of this thread. They probably had too much work with the PS4 and X1 versions and will release the PC version a bit latter. I don't think it will take as long as GTAV since they don't have to make the game work on PS360.

Was the original RDR ever released on PC?