OH goddammit give up already shio !
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=18887
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/58537
10 million as of June 08
13 million as of May 09
= PC version has approximately 2.5 million sales as of today. Not more !
shio said:
COD4 was always one of the top 5 sold PC games every month until around a year after it was released, and it still kept charting often after. Even now COD4 still sells great - it is currently the 9th best sold action game on Steam, just below SFIV (which is 10th in Top Sellers) which probably makes COD4 the 11th or 12th best sold game on Steam right now. It is also 9th on Impulse, and it was 10th on D2D's Weekly Top10. The thing is, COD4 has a HUGE success in Digital Distribution Services, something that both The Sims and World of Warcraft games never had, and right now Digital Distribution is bigger than Retail.
Any proof to back your statement?
No, there isn't.
Show me the figures!
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It didn't and you know it. I'm not even gonna bother to find the article saying how many copies total MW has sold cause you'll say something stupid in return. But hey I bet it got pirated 8 million copies...that makes sense.
| Barozi said: OH goddammit give up already shio ! http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=18887 http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/58537 10 million as of June 08 13 million as of May 09 = PC version has approximately 2.5 million sales as of today. Not more ! |
But, but, but gaise!!! they aren't talking about the whole worlds!!!!!!!1111
i dont think the larger install base will have any effect. as you know the game has had legs ever since its launch, which probably means new hardware owners were purchasing it. thus negating any increased install base advantage.
i also think MW2 will sell close to MW numbers as I dont feel everyone will purchase the sequel. i feel it will be MW with new maps/guns so I am not purchasing it as many others might not as well. just my opinion
People have underwhelming illusions of the PC market. The PC market is so big and reachs so far that it can afford pirates.
It is possible call of duty 4 sold 8m on PC.
Digital distribution reaches every country in the world and the number of gaming PC beats all consoles together.
The online helps to diminish the pirated numbers also.
Call of duty wasn't a console game ported to PC. It had the PC version as lead and very optimized.
| Barozi said: OH goddammit give up already shio ! http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=18887 http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/58537 10 million as of June 08 13 million as of May 09 = PC version has approximately 2.5 million sales as of today. Not more ! |
Actually if my math is correct, and if VGcharts is correct. 4.5+7.5= 12 million and 13 million as of May 09 would mean only 1 million PC copies (which is really surprising to me, since I had no idea PC market was that weak.)
yo_john117 said:
But, but, but gaise!!! they aren't talking about the whole worlds!!!!!!!1111 |
The other 7.5 million are all digital edition pffff. Get with the time, PC consumers have evolved
Also Activision half the number of PC sales before showing them to the public for fear of the 360 terminator squads and the Sony ninja assassins.
Acevil said:
Actually if my math is correct, and if VGcharts is correct. 4.5+7.5= 12 million and 13 million as of May 09 would mean only 1 million PC copies (which is really surprising to me, since I had no idea PC market was that weak.) |
lol yeah you're right. I looked on World at War's numbers for the PS3 version accidentally. D'oh !
Anyway even if our numbers are wrong (which I don't think) there is no possibility that the PC version has sold anything near that 8 million mark
Barozi said:
lol yeah you're right. I looked on World at War's numbers for the PS3 version accidentally. D'oh ! |
Actually if you count in the DS numbers. The PC version is even lower. I think it might be possible that he was talking about console sales only, I doubt PC version is truly that weak, but I honestly don't know the market, like I stated before.
Well, if you look at the news article on the front page about digital downloads increasing you can get a rough idea of how much impact digital downloads actually have.
While digital downloads are increasing by a huge margin, the analysts on there say that they only acount for a mere 5% of game revenue. Now, Shio would have you believe that these online stores like D2D and steam are huge movers of software compared to retail channels. This just isn't true.
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