PC games don’t sell well. It’s an undeniable fact and you can’t do anything about it. At the end of January, if I’m not mistaking, the critically acclaimed (to an unhealthy degree if you ask me, the game is not THAT good) Crysis sold just over one million copies.
You probably think that’s not bad, but let me make a comparison. To be fair let’s take another overhyped game – Halo 3. Now, after a few months on the market Crytek’s game sold over a million copies. Bungie’s game on the other hand “sold” over four times better even before it was released (estimated four million preorders in North America alone). I have no idea how many copies of Halo were sold by the end of January, but I’m guessing it was a LOT. To add to Crysis’, let’s face it, utter failure let’s compare how many people have a PC capable of running Crysis (even if on low settings) and how many have a 360? What would be the ratio - 10:1?
Why is that? Is it because of the high piracy level with PC games, or maybe because you need a plutonium powered PC with eight graphic cards, fifteen gigabytes of RAM, a ten-core CPU and a pool filled with liquid hydrogen built next to your house to cool your machine to actually run the game with a decent framerate?
What’s even more interesting is that Electronic Arts (the game’s publisher) didn’t expect Crysis would sell well at all, as their spokesman stated that…and I quote: “…Crysis sold more copies that we have expected.” (Ok, that might not be an exact quote, but I can’t be bothered to look it up again).
Other big PC games didn’t sell well either. Unreal Tournament III and a PC version of Call of Duty 4 (which sold phenomenal on 360 and PS3) were particularly unsuccessful if you consider their hype.
The PC gaming market is in a lousy condition and to prove that I am right read this – at the last Game Developers Conference game and hardware developers announced that they will form a PC Gaming Alliance to alleviate the cripled PC gaming (those developers include: Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Microsoft, Dell, Acer, Razer, Epic and Activision). A desperate move for desperate times if you ask me.
3 comments:
What for buying PC game if You can download it! You don't even have to waste time/money to write it on cd/dvd - appropriate crack ant it will go without a cd/dvd-rom. How nice :D
I bought ps2 for many reasons:
tons of good games, no game installation , no f...ing blue screen, no hardware requirements just pure undisturbed gaming!
people like YOU are the reason PC gaming has a tough time. Burn, pirate!
You should recognize irony when you see one. He doesn't mean he does use pirated games. He just shows how people think.
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