FPS games on PC

VG chart: "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 broke all first week records to become the fastest-selling game of all time this week. With 8.14 million units sold on Xbox 360 and PS3, and over 8.6 million when including the PC release,"

soure: VGchart http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=5919

so MW2 only sells 500k to 1Mcopies on pc in the first week, sigh that's pathetic...it looks like PC FPS games (free online) are dying...

good pc is better than console, but how many people have a good PC?

For online games, it's all about how many population it has. the more the better, the less the worse.

I like keyboard and mouse combo on FPS, but PC FPS community is shrinking, which is a bad sign for PC industry and gamers.

If game companies dont make profit, they wouldnt make new games or theywould change business model from free online play to monthly fee base.

That's why the next COD may start to charge monthly fee on PC, and crysis 2 are going to on console version.

VGA awards? Dont make me laugh.

yes, it is dying. even though the PC community has clearly expressed much outrage over the shenanigans they are pulling with IW.net and all that other ****

we have real games that have things pc gamers enjoy we don't need a console port that robs us of all things standard.

Furthermore, our community is doing nothing but growing. the MW community in particular has gotten BIGGER sence mw2 launched, games like TF2 and CS still have massive communitys and L4D2 is full, quite literally, with people. It is hard to even join a dedicated server at times because there just arent any left

VGA awards? Dont make me laugh.

clyde46

You obviously know nothing about why the PC version is going to tank hard.

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VGA awards? Dont make me laugh.

shadow_hosi

Hmm. Does the TC even know why the PC game is tanking harder than before??? I can hear it now though. IW will say teh piracy made it do bad when it was themselves that did it.Killfox

That's why the next COD may start to charge monthly fee on PC, and crysis 2 are going to on console version.

oajlu

IW are only considering fees because they think their majority audience (console users according to you) is gullible enough to pay for them, it has nothing to do with PC gaming. As for cross platform development, this has been explained so many times you would think people would get it by now. I suppose console gaming is dieing is it? Because more console games are cross platform than PC games, that's your rational not mine.

good pc is better than console, but how many people have a good PC?

oajlu

Great, someone else who thinks they in their ultimate knowledge know what PC gamers are running in their systems better than they do...

I severely doubt that those numbers include digital distribution.

A. MW2 isnt a popular game with pc gamers

B. that doesnt include DD

C. sales of other FPSs like STALKER (with no hype) prove this wrong.

It would be very interesting to see a sales comparison of the PC and 360 versions of L4D2.

It would be very interesting to see a sales comparison of the PC and 360 versions of L4D2.

gamecubepad

PC guys are probably playing superior games like TF2 instead of buying MW2Parasomniac

Actually, roughly 1/7 the number of players are playing TF2 versus MW2.

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

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It would be very interesting to see a sales comparison of the PC and 360 versions of L4D2.

Brownesque

I agree about the DD part, especially since this is a Valve game. I have L4D2 and my 360 right in front of me, I wonder where they list the number of players? I've seen the listing in Halo 3, does L4D have the same thing?

The reason it tanked is beacause its a bad PC game, it was made for consoles and doesnt stand up to other fps's the PC has to offer right now, i would rather play tf2, CSS, or L4d2 then that consolized garbage of a pc game, and it looks like most pc gamers agree.

Honestly I doubt those figures are accurate, for one it's vgcharts, and two PC sales are near impossible to track unless the numbers came from dev/pub themself.

But if true then good, the online component simply isn't up to PC standards so it should show in sales.

However, when even games like Stalker can sell 2m I'm pretty sure MW2 will do twice that as it's much bigger game, even on PC.

[QUOTE="Brownesque"][QUOTE="gamecubepad"]

It would be very interesting to see a sales comparison of the PC and 360 versions of L4D2.

gamecubepad

I agree about the DD part, especially since this is a Valve game. I have L4D2 and my 360 right in front of me, I wonder where they list the number of players? I've seen the listing in Halo 3, does L4D have the same thing?

All I took from this is that PC gamers were the smartest consumers in this situation.

lol its good thing really. the pc community expressed how it did not like what IW did with the game and they boycotted the game and it seems it was failry successful (although 1 mil copies sold is still a lot) so i dont think its asign of pc gaming dying you silly. you get a boop on your nose

Any big excluisve PC FPS game coming out in 2010?

Any big excluisve PC FPS game coming out in 2010?

PS3_3DO

VG chart: "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 broke all first week records to become the fastest-selling game of all time this week. With 8.14 million units sold on Xbox 360 and PS3, and over 8.6 million when including the PC release,"

soure: VGchart http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=5919

so MW2 only sells 500k to 1Mcopies on pc in the first week, sigh that's pathetic...it looks like PC FPS games (free online) are dying...

oajlu

I don't even think that MW 2 sales on PC reached the 500.000 units, and honestly the PC version doesn't deserves so high sales, IMO. Is hard to sell when the main appeal is the multiplayer and in this field is clearly worse game than COD 4, BF2, CSS or even COD 2.

Assuming the info is correct, am I the only one seeing this as good news? Activision and IW completely stepped on PC gamers with MW2. I mean, when people can infect other PCs with Trojans over the online multiplayer component you know you've failed at releasing a respectable game on the PC platform. The sales reflect this.

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Any big excluisve PC FPS game coming out in 2010?

skrat_01

The last Stalker game kind of flopped. Oh I hate RTS games. :D

good pc is better than console, but how many people have a good PC?

oajlu

thats not our problem if you cant handle capitalism

[QUOTE="skrat_01"][QUOTE="PS3_3DO"]

Any big excluisve PC FPS game coming out in 2010?

PS3_3DO

The last Stalker game kind of flopped. Oh I hate RTS games. :D