Buiten steam gerekend is MW1 meer verkocht dan MW2
Maar zoals iemand al zei in dit forum, het kan goed zijn dat ze dit verwacht hadden en gewoon van hun console verkoop zijn afgegaan wat heel goed kan zijn, sinds de versie op PC een port is van de console versie.
Relevant article:
“VGChartz can exclusively reveal that according to our preliminary data, Modern Warfare 2 sold around 9.4 million copies in week one.
Breaking the sales down by console, Xbox 360 took 56% of total sales, PS3 took 38% and the remaining 6% of sales were for the PC version.”
6% of 9.4 million is 564,000 – copies. CoD 4 for PC sold around 2.4 million copies. So MW2 PC sales are down 1,836,000 compared to CoD 4 for PC.
1,836,000 x $60 = $110,160,000
So if IW was expecting the MW2 PC sales to be equal to CoD 4 PC sales at $60 a pop for just 1 MW2 PC copy per 1 customer, IW has up to now lost $110,160,000 from what it made with CoD 4 PC by refusing to have dedicated servers, and mod tools, punk buster, and removing the lean function, yayyy way to go Infinity Ward, great stuff.
And here in Britain/UK the sales of MW2 PC are really poor:
“Modern Warfare 2: U.K. PC Sales Lagging Way Behind
Nov 16, 2009 at 6:53 PM – Andrew Burnes – 35 Comments
1.78 million copies sold in the U.K., but of those only 53,400 (3%) are in the hands of PC gamers, making Modern Warfare 2 PC a pretty dismal failure:
As expected, the Xbox 360 version was the best seller with over one million sales on its own and GBP 38.5 million in revenues, a number which was also more than last week’s entire total for the UK games market.
Only the controversial PC version of the game could be considered a disappointment, entering at only number five in the individual formats chart. The PC version accounted for just three per cent of overall sales, compared to 57 per cent for the 360 and 40 per cent for the PlayStation 3.
Using these percentages, PlayStation 3 sales can be estimated at 712,000 units (with GBP 27 million in revenues) and the PC at 53,400 units.
Steam sales may be through the roof, but we’ll never know – Valve refuses to release figures”
A hundred goddamn million dollars lost. Wow, just wow.
How is this irrelevant?
Through their ignorance and haughtiness, the head-honchos of Activision have lost 20% of their potential revenue.
Considering the utter lack of community, mods, and positive word-of-mouth that MW2’s lack of dedicated servers and mod tools brought with it, I think it’s unlikely that sales will pick up in the future.
MW2’s financial success was a foregone conclusion, Kotick or not. But if I were a major shareholder of Activision I’d want heads to roll, because even at 5% share ownership, that’s at least a few million lost over nothing.
