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Strategyking92 on 25 August 2008
obieslut said:
woopah said:
i think the fact that these games are on PC means people who want them dont need to buy a 360

 

well said

 

not really.



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JaggedSac on 25 August 2008

CoD4 did better on 360 than pc.



IllegalPaladin on 25 August 2008
JaggedSac said:
CoD4 did better on 360 than pc.

How can you know that exactly?

It's still full price at stores......



JaggedSac on 25 August 2008

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-9959146-52.html?tag=nefd.top

'Call of Duty 4' hits 10 million units sold

Posted by Daniel Terdiman 2 comments

There are few things that video game publishers--or any consumer products companies, for that matter--like more than reaching big, notable milestones.

So it was with considerable pride that Activision's wholly owned Infinity Ward studio told me Tuesday that its war game, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, has just sold its 10 millionth copy.

Infinity Ward studio head Vince Zampella didn't know exactly how many units the game had sold on each platform it is available on--the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC--but did say that COD 4 had been most successful on the Xbox.



IllegalPaladin on 25 August 2008

Okay then,

 

Still a success on all three platforms, good job for them.



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Ronster316 on 25 August 2008
Torillian said:

@Ron

Perhaps, I personally don't think so. I think it depends how you look at the 360/PC relationship. Yes 360 gets games that it would not have, but it also loses exclusives that it probably would have had were it not for that relationship. I've never owned an Xbox, but I've played my share of Halo. If Fable 2 is fantastic, I always have the hope it'll come to PC and I won't have to spend money on a new console.

You feel that the relationship is leaning more towards PC benefitting 360, while I feel that it is leaning more towards detracting from 360. Suppose we'll just have to wait and see if Sony is in truly as hot water as you say.

edit: personally it seems to me that you're trying to justify what you'd like to happen, instead of just looking at the current situation and making a judgement call.  I suppose you could argue that I'm doing the same in the opposite direction, but then again I don't have anything that says I hate MS in my sig.....

 

 I completely understand where your coming from, it could both benifit only microsoft or only benefit the pc world, but my take is that it will benefit both, theres no denying that having Gears of war on 2 platforms is better for microsoft than sony only having say Drakes fortune available to ps3 owners only.... all im getting at is this........... halo had huge sales on both xbox and pc....... games like resistance will only EVER be seen on a sony platform, that could be deemed beneficial but at the same time the game is clearly not gonna sell as well as a say " halo or gears of war" i think the microsoft/pc partnership will see microsoft beat sony in the long run, maybe not this gen, but by say 2012 i think microsoft will be the leader in console gaming.............



JaggedSac on 25 August 2008
Ronster316 said:
Torillian said:

@Ron

Perhaps, I personally don't think so. I think it depends how you look at the 360/PC relationship. Yes 360 gets games that it would not have, but it also loses exclusives that it probably would have had were it not for that relationship. I've never owned an Xbox, but I've played my share of Halo. If Fable 2 is fantastic, I always have the hope it'll come to PC and I won't have to spend money on a new console.

You feel that the relationship is leaning more towards PC benefitting 360, while I feel that it is leaning more towards detracting from 360. Suppose we'll just have to wait and see if Sony is in truly as hot water as you say.

edit: personally it seems to me that you're trying to justify what you'd like to happen, instead of just looking at the current situation and making a judgement call.  I suppose you could argue that I'm doing the same in the opposite direction, but then again I don't have anything that says I hate MS in my sig.....

 

 I completely understand where your coming from, it could both benifit only microsoft or only benefit the pc world, but my take is that it will benefit both, theres no denying that having Gears of war on 2 platforms is better for microsoft than sony only having say Drakes fortune available to ps3 owners only.... all im getting at is this........... halo had huge sales on both xbox and pc....... games like resistance will only EVER be seen on a sony platform, that could be deemed beneficial but at the same time the game is clearly not gonna sell as well as a say " halo or gears of war" i think the microsoft/pc partnership will see microsoft beat sony in the long run, maybe not this gen, but by say 2012 i think microsoft will be the leader in console gaming.............

 

Halo and Gears only sold a fraction of what they did on XBox/360.



Ronster316 on 25 August 2008
JaggedSac said:
Ronster316 said:
Torillian said:

@Ron

Perhaps, I personally don't think so. I think it depends how you look at the 360/PC relationship. Yes 360 gets games that it would not have, but it also loses exclusives that it probably would have had were it not for that relationship. I've never owned an Xbox, but I've played my share of Halo. If Fable 2 is fantastic, I always have the hope it'll come to PC and I won't have to spend money on a new console.

You feel that the relationship is leaning more towards PC benefitting 360, while I feel that it is leaning more towards detracting from 360. Suppose we'll just have to wait and see if Sony is in truly as hot water as you say.

edit: personally it seems to me that you're trying to justify what you'd like to happen, instead of just looking at the current situation and making a judgement call.  I suppose you could argue that I'm doing the same in the opposite direction, but then again I don't have anything that says I hate MS in my sig.....

 

 I completely understand where your coming from, it could both benifit only microsoft or only benefit the pc world, but my take is that it will benefit both, theres no denying that having Gears of war on 2 platforms is better for microsoft than sony only having say Drakes fortune available to ps3 owners only.... all im getting at is this........... halo had huge sales on both xbox and pc....... games like resistance will only EVER be seen on a sony platform, that could be deemed beneficial but at the same time the game is clearly not gonna sell as well as a say " halo or gears of war" i think the microsoft/pc partnership will see microsoft beat sony in the long run, maybe not this gen, but by say 2012 i think microsoft will be the leader in console gaming.............

 

Halo and Gears only sold a fraction of what they did on XBox/360.

Two platforms will always be better than one......... theres no denying that

 



shio on 25 August 2008

@Jaggedsac

Again, there is no data from digital distribution, so we'll never know which had better.

One thing for sure, COD4 is still full price on PC, and that is uncanny for a 10 months old PC game. COD4 was 11th on NPD's July PC sales, and is currently 5th on Steam and Direct2Drive.



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Torillian on 25 August 2008

You think they'll be first next gen eh? Well that's certainly possible considering I know nothing about the prospects for the next gen. But I wouldn't count out Nintendo so easily, usually consoles going in with momentum have to do something specifically to screw it up, or the competition has to do something amazing. I'm not so sure either will happen next gen, but perhaps the next one after that since that seems to be the common trend.

I don't see how MS could disrupt Ninty or how Nintendo could screw up so that the 1st spot could be open next gen though.

I have no illusions that Sony will win next gen, I think they'll start selling the PS4 at a profit from the get go and have a moderate success such as the Gamecube, nowhere near it's competitor but still making money and keeping their loyal fanbase happy with first party titles and a few 3rd parties. and then we'll see after that.



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