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LivingMetal on 18 October 2016

I'm under the impression that consoles appeal more to the masses than a PC for gaming. With that said, I think R* games are also for the masses.



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vivster 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.

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torok on 18 October 2016
KLXVER said:

Was the original RDR ever released on PC?

No, but I really don't see why that would make them skip PC. For PS360, porting games to PC was harder. With PS4 and X1, porting is quite straightforward, so getting even a low estimate of 2M sales would probably pay off.



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Kerotan on 18 October 2016

So is this revenue from shark cards only in the graph?



Chazore on 18 October 2016
bananaking21 said:

what? how did waiting a year and a half suddenly become waiting "nearly 3 years". 

Since 2013.



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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 18 October 2016

Also another thing. If money really was the issue, then they would have never ported GTA V onto PC...

Lets look at GTA IV sales according to steam spy:

GTA IV has sold in its lifetime (8 years) about 4.3 million on steam. And that includes massive discounts and sales and etc with the lowest going for $7. The game is currently sitting at $20.

http://steamspy.com/app/12210

GTA V sold so far in its lifetime (about 1.5 years) 5.6 million. And so far, there has NOT been any massive discount. The lowest price GTA V has sold is $40 and that only happened not too long ago...

http://steamspy.com/app/271590

So yea, I doubt it has anything to do with GTA V not making enough money on PC cause it legit, does not make any sense if that was the case. This also doesn't include sales from Rockstar's own marketplace.



                  

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Zkuq on 18 October 2016
torok said:
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.

Are you claiming the PC version made barely any money then?

deskpro2k3 said:
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.

Are you claiming the PC version made barely any money then?



think-man on 18 October 2016

Just wait until the trailer releases on Thursday and bathe in the salty teas of all the console haters xD

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Qwark on 18 October 2016
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Qwark on 18 October 2016
Zkuq said:
torok said:

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.

Are you claiming the PC version made barely any money then?

deskpro2k3 said:

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.

Are you claiming the PC version made barely any money then?

Compared to the consoles it remains a small percentage, buy the number is big enough to make a PC version nonetheless.



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