Originally posted by Hoodlum
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First, as of December 19, acording to vgchartz, wich is a widely recognized source of information in this industry, the sales of ps3+xbox360 combined is 66 million worldwide. Considering the 360 has been around for 4 years, and the ps3 for 3, we can settle on a 3.5 years period. The lifetime psone sales is 100 million, in 6 or so years. Your 4x-5x argument is bullshit. The psone in its first 3.5 years was way under 50 M worldwide, so not only psone didnt sell 4x the sales of ps3 and 360 combined, but it sold less. And lets not forget ps3+360 combined is just 50% of the market. So much for a declining market, even funnier considering the economic recession. The 360+ps3 combined could end well north of the 130 M mark worldwide, considering the later years of sucesful systems are always faster than the early years.
Lets now check some of the most critically acclaimed and comercially succesfull hits of the pc this year:
Left4Dead2: Surprise surprise, a 360 game.
Dirt2: yes, it comes from the consoles.
Resident Evil 5: no need to say
Batman Arkham Asylum: yep, a console game
Modern warfare 2: A cheap port of the console game.
Dragon Age: Finally a real pc game. it had to be good old bioware.
Now take for example MW2. The pc version is obviously an afterthought, just released cause it was relatively simple to release it. Acording to data from amazon and other retailers, sales of PC MW2 account for less of 10% of the sales. So much for a giant market huh.
the Pc is seeing less and less releases each year, and what is release, are usually ports/adaptations of the console games, and not the other way around like it used to be back in the golden days of pc games. At the beginning of the decade/end of the 90's, tens of good games would be released every month.
Considering the global pc market is several times now the size of what it was 10 years ago, id say games aren't doing that well.
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