DonFerrari on 18 October 2016
archer9234 said: PC is one platform. Consoles are PS3, PS4, 360, X1. 4 VS 1. PC can only sell once. Then patches are done to improve it. A console has to re-release the whole game. And on a certain company. So people had to buy things 2x, or more. |
4 vs 1 but sales still are 10 to 1... and we are always reminded that the userbase is a lot larger on PC than on consoles... also I doubt that there is multi ownership for this game. Most I can imagine is like 1,3 factor (30% rebuy considering people that had it last gen and bought it this gen) so it would still be 7 to 1. That is a pretty big difference considering the bigger size of the PC market people claim and lower price and steam sales.
mountaindewslave said:
nah literally the only reason for GTA PC sales are mediocre is because they waited to release it so late. People lose interest and/or in the meantime will have played it on home consoles.
if they release simultaneously with consoles, PC that is, it would probablby do competitively for some of these giant GTA type games. these stats are not to be taken too seriously. You can't compare apples to apples a market with another that received the game wayyyy in advance because too many people converted over to play it on console since they had no choice at the time
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Well, look at GTA IV it also sold a lot better on consoles than on PC (funny enough it sold less than GTA V), so is the time delay really the culprit? As far as I know several games that were 1 year exclusive to X360 sold better on PS3 and Tomb Raider is expected to sell a lot better on PS4 than it had on X1.