TowerFall sold better on PS4 than PC, Ouya version trails behind

Julie Uhrman has stated 21% of the games revenue has come from OUYA, if that is correct that is impressive for a console for a niche market out less than a year. A very important issue to note is that this was expensive for an OUYA title. Where many games on the console are just a couple of bucks, Towerfall is $15. They should say how many OUYA owners downloaded the free trial, which is a core basis of the OUYA console (or was at launch).

With this it must be remembered that the PS4 sold by the bucket load with many people wanting to 'flesh out' their library. They knew that Towerfall was a good game due to media attention (a bright spot in the sea of negativity for OUYA). It sold less well on PC as the PC has more games of this type than PS4, especially on STEAM. It could be argued that the OUYA was a success for this title and proved a great launchpad for the developer but SSSHHH! We can't have positivity about OUYA!

Important things to consider. Ok, it will have sold the most on PS4 due to it being a new, highly selling console. People knew Towerfall to be a good game due to the media attention it could on OUYA (with all the negative it was a bright spot). Then there is the fact that there are a very finite number of games on PS4 and people want to bulk out their library. Then there is the fact that there are many games of this type on PC, so the PC version is bound not to sell as well. Finally, it was very expensive for an OUYA game, the fundamental point is there is a free version on OUYA. How many people downloaded that? The positive way to look at this would be the dev got his recognition on OUYA and it was a great launching platform, but SSSSHH! We can't have positivity about OUYA!!!

PC gaming is dead. The only reason it can't be declared so because everyone has PC's but only around 20K worldwide use pC's for gaming.

asking why?

a platform like PC is flooded with indie game releases daily. PS4 - not so much.small selection of games. so of course some games will do better on a console that isn't saturated with games. its simple economics. this just just shows you that PS4 owners are still starving for more games, and will buy just about anything right now.. PC gamers are not exactly in the same boat.

not every "good" game warrants immediate purchase on PC right now, because there are so many to choose from, and only so much time to play them all. PC gamers are spoiled like that. and they've adopted the model of waiting for deep steam sales.

Considering that the dev has pulled the free demo of Towerfall from Ouya and did not bother to support the PS3 pad for Ouya, I would say that the dev couldn't really care less about the Ouya system. I am not surprised though, considering what a mess the Ouya is in right now.

Why is it selling so well on the PS4? should the article actually be about.

It´s simply cause there isn´t anything worthwhile to play there, and while the Xbone and PC got Titanfall, this is the best Sony has been able to muster in that period.

There's like 10 similar games to this on steam (with online co-op) so why would PC gamers care?. Also no game dev is as childishly stupid as Thorson is quoted as being in this article. The article is clearly paid for to promote the game for PS4 fanboys and rile up PC gamers who seem to care about pc vs console warz!!. With no online co-op it is useless on PC. I'll just enjoy Starbound thanks

So don't realise it on steam, I'm sure you will miss the millions but like you said it's a console game...ya know?

If you're interested at all in gaming you would support the PC. The only truly open platform.

As you give control to the corporations you will begin to see your rights slowly being taken away. Power will be concentrated in only a few corporations. Corporations do not give a damn about you. They are simply a cancer. Their only goal is to spread, take control, and destroy competition, in the name of more profits.

If you love gaming, you would be smart enough to realize that open platforms = freedom from the corporations.

Support Gamers !! Support OPEN platforms !!

No mention that it prob got overwhelmed with the amount of constant new releases on Steam (many of them crap due to Greenlight). Whereas PS4 has a limited amount of releases at the moment.

Another good deal for the Indiestation 4

Indies have no problem to sell games on the Portstation 4 since this console don't have any good exclusives

Of course it didn't sell on PC well, its a 4-way "couch" PVP game, it has no online component. Why the f*ck would you buy this on PC? Is anyone surprised by this?

Is this yet another GS article trying to incite a platform war? Judging by the comments it's working; stop arguing you guillable lot.

Most people don't even give a flying **** about this game, much less what system sold more copies of it. This is yet again another article by Gamespot to tear gamers who choose one platform over another apart on the same old thing. Unless you're going to make a profit off of this game, what difference does it make?

Where are all the PC elitists who we're celebrating in the other article about PC selling more games than consoles? Lol

(Which was not even true)

Greatness Awaits!

Has to do with lack of titles for the new consoles. Logocycle, contrast, max curse of brotherhood likely same thing. People take what they have available even if its bad.

Understandable. After all, Ps4 owners don't have to download and wade through EA's Origin bullshit to play the game.

Sounds about right since PC gaming has been dying in and out for years now.Hell look at titanfall 1.5 million on the Xbox One,400,000 on the Xbox 360,and only 200,000 on PC as of april 12

Just proves we ps4 owners are hungry for games even if they are crap oxymoronic titled ones.

im glad people are awake to rubbish articles like this and yes im going to repeat it.

no shit, ps4 players will take what they can, there is about 10 games on the ps4, thier are thousands to choose from on pc and thousands similar to his game, not surprised that ps4 is the plafform its done best on.

moron article, writers are really dumb and bored of their jobs or they are hoping we are dumb and dont figure out the bigger picture eg ps4 haveing ef all games to choose from ofcourse this is going to get snapped up for 20 dollars" im so so so tired of having to sift through articles for the truth in all of them, atleast with forums like this we can just scroll down and someone has explained the truth about each article.

thanks gamespot members :)

There's a ton of these types of games on PC.

But look at the PS4 giving love to the indies eh.. That's the bigger story here I think.

I dont think I'v even heard of this game.

I'm a PC gamer and love games like this. It's a shame the developer did, well, nothing to promote the game on the platform.

I'd gladly plop down the $15 now if not for that fact. Given the heavy emphasis on multiplayer and the lack of sales, I can't justify risking idle time hoping someone else might join the game.

Good...it means that in the future, indie devs will do a lot more games for console, which means more choices for consoles gamers!

Maybe because PC gamers are sick of shitty copy+paste Tower Defense games?

No kidding. I mean on the PC, we have thousands of games to choose from. On the PS4, we have tens of games to choose from. So when a new one comes out, it obviously is going to sell better because people are bored with the few games they have.