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News PC game sales constitute 14 percent of total sales

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by Tim S, 30 Jan 2008.

  1. steveo_mcg

    steveo_mcg What's a Dremel?

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    True it is to bad for Europe, but its not great for you either... From other threads it seams that Europe is a much larger PC games market where North America tends towards consoles. So as a PC gamer if the larger market is getting shafted and is disinclined to buy games then we as a whole suffer.
     
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  2. Lepermessiah

    Lepermessiah What's a Dremel?

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    What? why the little attack? what's your problem? Can europe still buy boxed copies? Then what's the issue? Don't use steam then, you can still buy the boxed copy, how is that going to make people not buy them? europe is not a larger market, Pc games just happen to be selling better there then the US right now, but is is far from the larger market, who knows if that trend is short term or not. Not need to get sooky like a child.
     
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  3. steveo_mcg

    steveo_mcg What's a Dremel?

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    I was about to apologies for being a bit harsh, but since your being childish.... Na na na na...
     
  4. Lepermessiah

    Lepermessiah What's a Dremel?

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    Sure you were.
     
  5. impar

    impar Minimodder

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    Greetings!
    Numbers for discrete graphic cards for 2007 are out:
    http://www.jonpeddie.com/special/AIBReport.shtml

    More than 99M of graphic cards were sold in 2007, with a market value of $M22.497, average selling price of $227.
    About 35%-40% of those should be low end, not capable of playing AAA games.
    There were already gaming capable cards in the market (7800s, X1800s and superior models).

    And all of those gaming capable PC's only managed to move 1M units of Crysis and 1,3M units of CoD4 in 2007.

    Then, when searching Mininova for Crysis and CoD4-PC one gets hundreds of thousands of ".torrent" downloads, adding the various "releases" available. From a single tracker.

    My conclusion, PC gaming is healthy, PC game market is not.
     
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  6. knuck

    knuck Hate your face

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    1M and 1.3M are bad numbers ? over a period of a month and a half ? Let me call BS on that
     
  7. AcidJiles

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    im not worried. the cutting edge is here and besides pc gamers speed alot more money to be there than console gamers so it makes sense for large companies to keep it going.
     
  8. impar

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    Greetings!
    Yep. Lousy numbers when compared to console numbers.
    Crysis, being a PC only title, is impossible to compare, but CoD4 sold almost 4M in the X360 and 1,9M in the PS3 during the same period.

    Both the 2007 user base of X360s and PS3s -17,4M and 10,7M- pale in comparison to the available gaming PCs, yet managed to move a lot more of CoD4 games.
     
  9. cjmUK

    cjmUK Old git.

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    I think it's fair to say that everyone who owns a console is interested in gaming and can play games designed for that console.

    It is not the case however that everyone who has a PC capable of playing a modern game like CoD4 is interested in gaming, and nor does everyone who has an interest in playing CoD4 have a capable machine.
     
  10. impar

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    Greetings!
    Yep, its fair.
    That wouldnt explain all the PC games freeloading.
     
  11. cjmUK

    cjmUK Old git.

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    What's that go to do with my post?

    For the record though, pirating is a big issue for consoles: http://www.torrentz.com/search?q=xbox+360
     
  12. impar

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    Greetings!
    People are interested in playing PC games, the numbers on P2P freeloading show that. Are not interested in paying for the games, hence the low 14% of total retail sales.
    Piracy and freeloading exists in every plataform, sooner or later, but is far more prevalent in PC.
    Pick a multi-plataform AAA game, CoD4 for example, check ".torrent" downloads of the various "releases" in Mininova for PC and consoles.
    Impressive ratio, isnt?
     
  13. Lepermessiah

    Lepermessiah What's a Dremel?

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    14% is incorrect, as those numbers are US only, PC gsming id big in Europe, and they do not include Digital distribution, which is very popular. AND, comparing PC to 7 other platforms makes it look worse then it is, compare PC to each other market individually, all of a sudden it is doing well, PC gaming GREW last year and is going to grow again this year. Crysis, a game thatr eguires the latest tech sold 1.3 million in 2 months, that is bad? Only a few consoles games beat that. PC is never as popular as it requires tech knowledge and more cash, but to suggest that it is in as bad a shape as u are is a fallacy.

    Piracy is hurting it, but not near as much as u say, one pirated copy does not equal sale, many studoes have disproved that piracy has a MAJOR effect, it does have an effect, just not as big as the suits say. Make a good game geared towards PC, it will sell, Stalker is at near 2 million now, yeah, a multi-billion industry is dying, lol.
     
  14. impar

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    Greetings!
    Source?
     
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