Shame on John for not reporting this news. Blasphemy. How could this be? Traitor. Traitor I say. But anyway, back on topic (you read that? Traitor). DFC Intelligence owner David Cole told PCR that PC games are more profitable than console games. Yeap, PC is not dead, is a major player, and is not going anywhere (okay, we all knew that but it’s cool to use that sentence).
As David Cole told PCR:
“On a global basis PC games have surpassed console games but the new console systems means consoles should show an increase.
Among core gamers there is a heavy overlap with most console gamers also playing on a PC. The big difference is that consoles are now the luxury item and PCs are the necessity. Just a few years ago the reverse was true. This means PCs have the broader audience.”
In other words, the PC platform is profitable, something that is evident from all the latest indie titles we’ve been getting. Oh, and from the fact that a lot of companies like Konami, Tecmo and Namco are releasing their games on the PC too.
As you’d expect, the most profitable PC genres are MOBAs, MMOs, strategy games, first person shooters and Free-To-Play titles.
“The MOBA games League of Legends and Dota 2 dominate everything else by an order of magnitude in terms of more usage than other products. In the first part of 2014 we saw some signs that may change with the introduction of new titles and some increased play of games outside the MOBA category.
But MOBA is dominant. Beyond that it is a nice mix of MMO, strategy and first person shooter.”
All in all, the PC is a healthy platform and is doing great. Yes yes, we may not have games like The Last Of Us or Uncharted, but we have StarCraft 2, DayZ, ArmA 3, The Banner Saga, World of Tanks, and one hell of indie titles that cover almost all genres. Oh, and 2014 will be a great year with games like Wasteland 2, Pillars Of Eternity, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Divinity – Original Sin, Tesla Effect, Elite: Dangerous, Routine and The Forest.
Enjoy and kudos to Umair Khan for spotting it!
Thomas is a close friend to John ‘john2’ and John ‘WhatGoesAroundComesAround’. Thomas, John and John basically came with the idea of DSOGaming. Thomas has been helping John with News articles these past years, and prefers to stay in the background than the foreground.
wow shame on you john :)) kidding. thanks thomas for news and thank you umair, you rock dude 😀
dota 2 surpasses 25million unique users, i like to see more PC game sales in multiplatform titles too. there is a reason companies like Warner or Ubisoft releasing their titles simultaneously on PC these days with all that extra day one only on playstation contents, and that shows PC community grown even bigger, thanks to digital stores,steam,gog and others (no origin)
Yeah mate so true so true 🙂
He got numbers to back anything of this up? Because I doubt that a PC game does sell more than the console equivalent. For Example, Skyrims PC revenue made 11% while the 360 made more than 50% And this is quite extreme considering all the hype the PC version got with mods and Steam. If anything it’s more because there are way more games released on PC (Especially shovelware on Steam lately).
I don’t think anyone is taking into consideration the online sales and at this point, retail numbers don’t represent a clear picture. Due to lack of promo stuff for the PC, of course consoles will sell more of the same ol’ same ol’ stuff, but on MMOs and others like that, PC is way ahead.
You can’t sell more GTA copies on PC, when consoles were always promoted first and PC was an afterthought.
sales may be more, but cents for development, distribution , the part that take $M /$S and things are not so pink
On the other hand in the PC pay only Steam or use own platform and all price of $ 50-60 is your’s.
actually skyrim has sold amazingly well, just as well as the console version, not versions, version.
I also like how many games that had abandoned PC in favor of consoles or never been on it before are now returning or making their first appearance on PC these days. I think that too is a sign that the PC isn’t doing so bad as some of the doomsayers claim.
Yeah pc is being bombarded by releases new and old, then you got consoletards saying that pc gaming is dying and everyone is switching to tablets.
Speaking for myself I don’t want to switch from a large screened 1440p PC with 5.1 surround and various peripherals to a tiny tablet touch screen and headphones for gaming. So yeah, I don’t see myself migrating to tablets for gaming any time soon.
Couse these fags are full of BS and right now they are afraid, very afraid as theirs presious little crap boxes are on the way to die.
So whose ass will they kiss and praise next when there is no dipshits to rob them of their money heh 😉
As long as there are hardcore gamers , PC gaming is not going away , no matter how powerful tablets become . You can’t play RTS or Sims on Tablets . PC gaming transferring into Tablet gaming is a dream of haters .
And now I think that more website should start to cover news related to PC games instead of overrated console franchises and yearly releases . PC gamers are biggest customers now after all .
meh, all that needs to be said is this, if nvidia and amd cant sell powerfull pc hardware then how they gonna make money to advance technology and make better hardware for their precious consoles and how will devs make games?
But that thing misses the logic of consoletards and they think that just because people by tablets instead of desktop pcs, that somehow reflects to pc gaming declining and there wont be gaming pc in the future, no gaming pcs no console hardware it is a simple as that.
Playing on a tablet when I have a 144hz monitor?
Some peasants are just in denial.
their pcs are 15 inch macbooks so what you expect? They think that buying a 1440p 50 inch tv is gonna somehow benefit them when they can barelly do 1080p.
I read about this some days ago and was on the way to bring you the news but I guess this was to big to miss and you should have seen it yourself heh 🙂
Well it’s good news and just states the fact about how it really is, this is good for the people out there hearing the truth and not what some dipshits like Sony wants us to belive.
We all know this was bound to happen so there is no stopping know, consoles are soon dead, thats a fact 😉
I feel so much win in this article. Consoles are the ones who are in trouble.
Sony is in trouble. They sell off everything they got to survive.
Guys I’m quite disappointed with you all…not a single “PC MASTER RACE” comment!!…:(
What the actual…;)
There are too many “peasants,” though.
Pretty much the same result.
afraid and are in denial about the trouble they got.
Yeah, these peasant are in for a world of hurt and denial are one of the things they live by 🙂
I love some delusional fanboys that say stuff like “Meh , revenue is generated from MOBAS and F2P” . They think that most of console revenue comes from console exclusives (that barely sell over 2 million on PS3) . Console revenue mostly comes from rip offs like COD , Madden , FIFA and other casual junk . Not to mention overpriced games , season passes , on disc DLCs , Yearly releases and so on .
They say “Just take out MOBAS and F2P and there won’t be much revenue from PC” . I’d take out revenue generated by COD and FIFA and thinks aren’t looking good for consoles . At least PC games sell like hot cakes .
GTA V was released exclusively on consoles last year and made so much money , console community was so proud of it , yet PC made more revenue than all consoles combined . That’s huge in my eyes .
And thanks for mentioning me 🙂
Exactly, the console revenue comes from cod, madden, gta fifa, etc etc, lately most multiplats struggle to get 3 milion sales. The revenue comes from mp games like bf or gta, the sales of the rest of the games are nowhere near as high.
Console exlusives are made by taking a dev who is not into making big budget multiplatform games and giving them money to make a exlusive games so they got a excuse to make people buy their games.
Sony and ms are spending 100 mililion each year for the development of those games.
Ms has 1 billion invested in exlusives.
From 60 bucks, 10 are royality fees that go to ms and sony. Thats how ms and sony makes money from the game licenses and royality fees and online fees, each console their selling is damaging them, Amd makes more money off ps4 than sony.
When they sell exlusives they get 20 bucks from the publishing rights and 10 bucks from the royality fees, they could sell them lower to encourage people to buy them, but they cost so much that they need to make alot of money to make their money back so they hype them and price them as full games.
Funny isn’t it how console users take a shot at WoW yet it single handily destroys most console sales. Eve Online still going strong as well.
I would prefer that PC were doing well for games like SC2, BF4, DAYZ, any FG or anything else than MOBAS, those games doesnt need any kind of skill, SORRY.