COD 4 Pc sold less than 2 million units? Piracy is to blame?

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salaminizer on 06 August 2009

Stan85 said:

gergroy said:

Mudface said:

shio said:

There are more PC games being bought on Digital Distribution than on Retail, right now.

Yep.

I disagree with a lot of your last post- COD 4 sold very well, but it isn't a Half Life/ Sims/ WoW seller by any means, and it won't get anywhere near 10 million sales- but I'd agree totally with the quoted statement, given the figures I posted earlier.

Frankly, I'm utterly amazed that the owner of a site dedicated to video game sales is so completely out of touch with the size of the digital download market.

lol, or maybe you are out of touch on the size of the digital distribution market. ioi has a lot more data and experience in this area than we do and I think he would know better than us. Also, he isn't the only one that thinks that. NPD came out and said that digital distribution only acounted for about 5% of the gaming industry.

Now, if you include piracy in digital distribution, than it might be as big as you think, but the people that actually pay for digital downloads are still pretty minor.

Agree,DD is very small and counts to those who don`t want to go to a gaming store.

But DD distribution is no match to torrent distribution,wich is free and used more and more these days.

yep, I agree with you, I have never seen a single PSone or PS2 original game, original PC games are also quite rare around here too. but there are millions of pirated PS2 and PC games sold every day.

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