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mai on 16 November 2009

shio said:

I don't know where they got that number from, but that $24.9 billion is either wrong or it's not just from console software sales.

In 2007, console games retail revenue in US was only $6.64 billion. Where did the other 18.26 billion come from?! Are you telling me that US was less than 27% of worldwide console games sales in 2007?!

That might be so, PwC probably included hardware & accessories sales into report, since they're talking about the whole industry. Though great majority of those sales on PC come from online subscriptions.



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chriscox1121 on 16 November 2009
Vagabund said:
kitler53 said:
Vagabund said:
Does 1 million more or less really matter in this case? ;)

depends - does 50 million dollars sound like it really matters to anyone?

They make shitloads of profit out of it anyways. And it's not safe to say, that everyone who pirated it would have bought it if they didn't have the possibility.

 

Maybe my opinion is a little unpopular on that topic, but I really don't feel bad for that stuff - not for so big companies and games. I just think it sucks if you download smaller (independent) companies' games, or don't pay for any games at all.

of course you wouldn't...it's not your money




waron on 16 November 2009

there are way more downloads than those 640k i would say that by the end of this year more than 4mln people will pirate this game - just on one torrent site i saw like 300-350k people downloading different MW2 game torrents right now.
checked 2 more popular torrents for MW1 on just one torrents site they had more than 600k downloads from that site so far. they weren't released when pc version of MW1 hit the stores they were released like 6-7 months after that when most of the pirates already had the game.



waron on 16 November 2009

about the pc revenue figures - how much comes from mmo games? 50-60%?
revenue from games like NFS Shift, Prototype, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Street Fighter 4, Resident Evil 5, Mirror's Edge, Shaun White Snowboarding or Dead Space was abysmal at best.
only MMOs and niche games do good and good for niche games means 100-150k lifetime.



Alterego-X on 16 November 2009
waron said:
about the pc revenue figures - how much comes from mmo games? 50-60%?
revenue from games like NFS Shift, Prototype, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Street Fighter 4, Resident Evil 5, Mirror's Edge, Shaun White Snowboarding or Dead Space was abysmal at best.
only MMOs and niche games do good and good for niche games means 100-150k lifetime.

Wait... 

First,, you argue that PC gaming is smaller, because there is a single important genre, while console gaming has many smaller genres.

After that, you add that PC has tons of niche genres, as opposed to consoles having only a few mainstream games.



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Alterego-X on 16 November 2009
Pharaoh said:
Don't make excuses for pirates, they are dirty sub-beings with no moral compass.

Or not.



mai on 16 November 2009
waron said:
about the pc revenue figures - how much comes from mmo games? 50-60%?

I bet >60%



pbroy on 16 November 2009

NICE!!!

Back to form... You still have it in you MAFFKA.. I knew you had it in you. All you had to do was B.E.L.I.3.V.E.... I was beggining to lose faith in you. Give it to them Xbox loving bots.. they deserve it. ~_n

Thanks for telling everyone what the file names are, so that we can pirate the hell out of the game so M$ will suffer and die!!!

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shinyuhadouken on 16 November 2009

these people should get life in jail and dick every day.



Not a 360 fanboy, just a PS3 fanboy hater that likes putting them in their place ^.^

Sidious on 16 November 2009
MAFKKA said:
nightsurge said:
CommonMan said:
Seems like more and more people feel that they should get things for free. Especially if they feel the item doesn't live up to their arbitrary expectations.

Exactly.  And all they are going to do by pirating it, rather than just not buying it, is give developers more of an excuse to move development to consoles or implement even more DRM.

^ Well the 360 still have 220.000 pirated downloads. So at the moment, i'd say they give developers more of an excuse to move development to the PS3 rather than to "consoles", if your point would claim any value. But yes, i understand what you're saying. Piracy on PC is a problem according to developers.

Still, i think it's not only the Pirate's to blame. I think the platform where games are distributed also needs a look-over, much like the Movie and Music industries are working on. Now services like iTunes, Spotify and Voddler exsists, that delivers a great service where users actully feel its worth coughing up money.

I mean... take MW2 as an example. They go out with info that MW2 for PC is going to get matchmaking instead of dedicated servers. And the PC community feels that this will never work. Had IW released a PC demo, alot of PC gamers might've found out that they could still make it work, i.e they go out and buy the game on release day. But in this case IW drops a bomb, the community is in outrage, and IW just continue on with their everyday life, and later blames the PC community for having a piracy problem.


MW2 360 is well on its way to outselling the top selling PS3 game to date (and is outselling MW2 PS3) and you want to use it as an example of why developers would want to move game development to the PS3 and exclude the 360 and PC?  Please tell everyone you're joking before they start thinking you're a Sony drone living in a fantasy world.