Activision Blizzard today announced its first-quarter 2017 results, revealing that the PC was the most profitable platform in this three-month period. It’s also worth noting that Overwatch has generated over $1 billion and is now the 8th billion-dollar franchise in Activision Blizzard’s portfolio.
As we can see, the PC platform has generated $566 million in the first quarter of 2017. And while this is lower than the console revenue, we do have to note that the console category includes a lot of console platforms. As such, the most profitable singular platform is undoubtedly the PC.
It’s also worth noting that the PC platform generated $166 million more than last year’s quarter. In other words, there was a 42% increase, whereas consoles saw a 20% decrease in sales.
Obviously, these results are mainly due to Overwatch and Hearthstone. Nevertheless, these stats show how important the PC actually is for Activision and Blizzard!
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But this still wont guarantee that COD will be optimised..
get a proper PC
Why would you want to play that trash series anyways?
Now that they go back to ww2 i dont even care anymore.
Blizzard is different beast than part of activision that makes COD. That part makes way, way more money via consoles.
what now waIikor?
“pc has no red dead 2 or ffxv lololol”
it’s the truth 🙂
GTA V wasn’t announced for PC at first but later it released on PC, and FFXV creators themselves said it will be release on PC eventually.
Building on what Stalker said; if you really think Rockstar is going to pass on all that PC money from RDR2, you’re as autistic as dagoat thinks we are.
As for FFXV, yeah, like Stalker said; all but confirmed.
how is it that i’m a bad guy now? is it because i tell the truth?i was one of the first people who said red dead will be on PC no doubt but i know when consoles beat PC (most of the times) i admit it
“i was one of the first people who said red dead will be on PC”
Uh, I’ve been saying for years that RDR2 will come to PC, either at launch, or at some point afterwards? I mean, come on, it’s as obvious as GTA V PC was, ffs.
For that matter, if you really want to compare epeen; I was one of the few people to accurately predict that Rocksh*t wouldn’t say a word about RDR2 PC when they announced the platforms it was going to be on (“because the PC is too big, too important to “ignore” these days!” they were saying), & look at that; I was right! 😮
what does that have anything to do with me being the bad guy here?
You’re really stuck on that, aren’t you.
Alright then; you might want to invest some points into English Language Reading Comprehension, mate;
“if you really think Rockstar is going to pass on all that PC money from RDR2, you’re as autistic as dagoat thinks we are.”
More specifically, I’m guessing you’re referring to the “you’re as autistic as dagoat thinks we are” bit, right?
I’m not exactly sure what the perceived problem here is, as you’ve literally called us autistic on multiple occasions now, so I’m really just using that as joke; Walikor is as autistic as you think we are [in regards to DRM], if he really believes that RDR2 isn’t coming to PC.
Happy, now?
i’ve seen your other comments mentioning me, i’m just wondering why i’m on list of bad guys, it’s definitely because i tell the truth
” i tell the truth”
Yeah, okay kiddo, keep telling yourself that.
salty
Nope, just tired of paid shills/trolls/idiots/other/[insert] who can’t accept when they’re wrong, & respond with such idiotic statements as “I tell the truth” & “salty.”
define autism
Damn, I broke him.
Oops.
yes, good job.
you keep saying same things and i don’t read them because you sound like an edgy 12 years old
“i don’t read them”
So, you reply without reading?
Nice! ESP? Cool!
i only read them when they’re very short, even then i stop reading them after reading couple of words because you sound autistic and repetitive
“you sound autistic and repetitive”
I agree, you really do.
yep they cant handle the truth
if you dont agree with the pc agenda you are the bad guy..lol
dont listen tho them the give they pc a participation trophy…lol
facts console revenue is 615m
fact pc revenue is 566m
console revenue is higher.
dont listen to them..lol
Console is higher, you are right.
PC is lower. No issue.
But we all know you are scared.
Here’s why:
You won’t admit (logically) that console is lumped together meaning it cannot be properly compared to PC as PC is not one thing but made of many things yet the ecosystem for the most part is the same, unifying it.
And the finish is the fact that console sales are in a decline, GameStop closing stores and having to diversify by selling digital keys for PC. Even the secondhand market isn’t as bountiful. Exclusives coming to PC at a much faster rate. Hell, even PC has exclusives now.
But yeah, you are right. 😉
yeah that revenue for console is split between 4+ platforms.
which means consoles which the survey lumped is still more profitable then pc.
are you giving the pc a participation trophy…lol
good job pc you can do better next time..lmao
its not like they buy it and support the devs.waiting for a steam sales or using g2a screw the devs over.
which is why this article shows consoles are more porfitable then pc ever will be..lol
but you can see the sales for example gta v
PC : 7 milion on steam
ps4: 15 milion
result: red dead redemption 2 not coming to pc!
you didnt even include the xbox one gta 5 sales either.
the pc is for esports and skin buying real gamers console game
2 of the most overated franchises ever
I would rather wait a year like GTA V and have a superior version on pc!
Walikor, dagoat, & Hvd.
all three blocked, lol
All the same ebin trole, most likely.
all same person using different names lol
waIikor has 2 accounts.
net revenue
first line console 615m
2nd line pc 566m
looks like console are doing better then pc.any can see the author is wrong.
its right there in the print consoles are doing better..
2 platforms vs. 1, & the PC still manages to make almost 9/10ths of the same profits.
If that’s not impressive, I don’t know what is.
the facts are the facts the survey forced consoles to be bunched up so deal.the fact is console does more revenue plain and simple.
pc total net revenue is lower then console so consoles are doing better then pc.the figuers are clearly showing that.
console total net revenue is HIGHER then pc.
#facts
The facts are the facts; 2+ vs. 1.
So, deal. The fact is consoles individually just generated far less revenue than the PC did, plain & simple.
PC total net revenue was ridiculously higher than each individual console, so PC is, in fact, actually the single best performing platform on that chart, & those figures are clearly showing that.
#Facts.
#Troll.
Don’t try to make a console gamer think. It’s just cruel to watch them sit there with that blank stare on their face and drooling. If they were capable of thought they would be PC gamers to begin with.
are you blind?
console net revenue 615m
pc revenue 566m
console revenue is higher then pc
you trying to get the pc a participation trophy..lol
good job pc keep at it..lol
Are you blind, do you not understand English as well as other people, are you currently/continuously high on mind-addling substances, or are you simply mentally handicapped?
You are comparing multiple platforms against one, singular platform. Your argument fails based on that, alone, as it is completely & utterly illogical to do so in the first place, so, please, just f*ck off already?
Or, actually, you know what;
Can we just ban this little b*tch already? I’m getting bored here.
Big, pretty please?
Iets than 8% diffirence. ConsoIes are dying.
#FACT
consoles in fact only grow bigger unlike PC which is either a small growth or backward steps due to piracy, what you’re seeing here is only because PC gamers in general pay a lot more for microtransaction otherwise console sale figures dominate PC sales by far, even xbox one surpasses PC most of the times
“consoles in fact only grow bigger unlike PC which is either a small growth or backward steps”
What.
“due to piracy”
Even excluding the assumptions you’re vomiting out here for the umpteenth time, the former part of that isn’t even true.
I mean, wow, I know you’re a DRM shill & all, but for f*ck’s sake, at least use facts, if nothing else, otherwise you come off as a troll –
– Oh, wait I forgot, you don’t have any facts to support your claims with, do you?
My bad, carry on.
“what you’re seeing here is only because PC gamers in general pay a lot more for microtransaction otherwise console sale figures dominate PC sales by far, even xbox one surpasses PC most of the times”
any statistic can back my claims, in terms of PC revenue growth, sure it’s a lot bigger now but considering state of PC gaming in 2004-2008, is that saying a lot? PC gaming was nearly wiped out completely back then
No, PC gaming was nearly declared dead by console sycophants trying to push the “PC Gaming is Dead!” campaign to its maximum extent. Namely, publishers looking to move away from the PC platform towards consoles, exclusively, & the gaming media websites that were helping them propagate their bullsh*t campaign to the masses.
PC has always been, & is currently doing just fine. The only problems the PC platform faced during that period was an explosive growth on the console market, as video games became more mainstream (read: accessible) through consoles than through the PC, though that trend (predictably & inevitably) tapered off, & a development focus shift away from a PC-first standard towards a consoles-first, PCs (maybe) second mindset that has remained in place through to this day (unfortunately).
“otherwise console sale figures dominate PC sales by far, even xbox one surpasses PC most of the times”
Link proof, or f*ck off already, because I can actually link you to CDPR talking about how The Witcher 3 sold far more on PC than on both consoles combined if you want, whereas you seem to just be pulling quotes out of your *ss.
you are giving console players too much credit, there’s no mafia or conspiracy against pc players, publishers saw no profit in PC market because of piracy.
it seems like you’re the one who’s pulling quotes out of your anuz, give me proof of this exact quote
“The Witcher 3 sold far more on PC than on both consoles combined”
And there it is; “publishers saw no profit in PC market because of piracy.”
The age-old lie, as set forth & subsequently propagated for years on end by the sycophantic media. Seriously, every time I meet one of “you people” who still believes this, I find myself wondering where the f*ck you picked this sh*t up from because, seriously, it’s becoming pathetic at this point to still find such idiots abound.
Let me guess, you also think Crytek did Crysis 2 as a multi-platform Call of Duty ripoff “because piracy”, right? Because PC piracy pushed them to turn their sandbox open-world shooter into a linear, corridor shooter Call of Duty ripoff, right? Not greed & the desire to maximise profits by making a generic-as-f*ck shooter, right?
Yeah, okay, whatever, just f*ck off already.
“Console players”? When did I ever mention “console players”? I’m talking about the publishers. They were the ones who pushed the “PC Gaming is Dead” propaganda onto the media, who pushed it onto us. The gullible console idiots just bought the sh*t, nothing more.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Has Sold More Copies On PC Than Consoles Combined – Developer
Read more at http:// gamingbolt. com /the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-has-sold-more-copies-on-pc-than-consoles-combined-developer
Eat me, b*tch.
P.S. By the way, just in case you forgot; The Witcher 3 had no DRM what-so-ever. OH, THE HORROR!
as always you are delusional and persistent on something made up due to your severe (blank)
he also said console sales are catching up and it was probably because witcher3 was a new franchise on consoles, i bet my life that sales on consoles are probably 2-3 times bigger than PC at the moment
Now I get it; you’re a robot with an inhibition chip drilled into your computational unit, aren’t you?
I mean, that’s really the only explanation I’ve got left for someone so absurd. Either way, believe whatever you want.
Just for the record, though, if CDPR ever published a breakdown of platform sales for The Witcher 3 & it turns out I’m right, does that mean you’re going to shut yourself down, permanently?
Also, “new franchise” is a gross exaggeration. The Witcher 2 was on consoles & it sold great on them, but nice try.
can someone help me with definition of autism?
thr pc is for esports thats why it has lasted this longs.
go buy them ships boyz..lol
This little f*cker just doesn’t stop, does he.
pc is for esports the only reason it has survived this long.
consoles are for real gamers.
lamo the first native 4k console is about to be launched for X3 the cost of a 4k pc.
pc is about to go in to hideing..lmao
ps most profit for devs is consoles this article saud that.
Our little community’s conslow trolls, in the case of Hvd & Walikor, & a DRM/Denuvo sycophant, in the case of dagoat, who thinks we all have autism, & takes every opportunity to remind us that we have autism.
Walikor is doing the best he can with what little sense he has. Be kind to the poor mentally crippled child : )
yes is correct pc gaming is good only for f2p and multiplayer games,but for single player like horizon no…too much piracy 🙂
console gamers are getting only third person action adventure with stealth elements in the name of exclusives. it hardly got any different genre than that. it can’t, they lack necessary input devices for all kind of gaming genre. But PC got whole exclusive genre, strategy games, grand strategy city building games, MMO games, simulation games, not to mention MOBA etc. etc. go and play repetitive, nothing any different in gameplay your third person action adventure with stealth elements. 🙂
You forgot “cinematic experience”.
Good point! Got to have that 30 FPS cap for the most “cinematic experience” possible!
Oh, & those black bars! I mean, how can we have a “cinematic experience” without black bars?!
you cant play a game with out a fps counter in the corner..lmao.
Says who? Is there a law that says so? Where? When did it pass? Why? How?
Oh, wait.
nothing left to ad?
console revenue 615m
pc revenue 566m with all the esport and mmo cash shops consoles still beat pc.
#accept facts
I hate repeating myself……
So, yeah, see above.
#AcceptFacts.
net console revenue 615m MORE THEN PC
net pc revenue 566m LESS THEN CONSOLE
how many time do i need to show you the facts?
console revenue is MORE then pc #facts.
I repeat myself, once more, for the idiots, imbeciles, half-wits, paid shills, morons, console trolls, & other such associated r*tards out there;
Consoles = MULTIPLE PLATFORMS.
PC = ONE PLATFORM.
Ergo sum: YOUR COMPARISON IS MORONIC.
#Facts.
you arnt winning this one consoles are more profitable then pc the facts show that 615m console revenue and 566m pc ravenue.
stop giving the pc a participation trophy
facts are facts.
consoles over all are still more profitable then pc.#facts
Fine, I’ll just quote this bloke, then, instead;
@BrainFlush
“Console is higher, you are right.
PC is lower. No issue.
But we all know you are scared.
Here’s why:
You won’t admit (logically) that console is lumped together meaning it cannot be properly compared to PC as PC is not one thing but made of many things yet the ecosystem for the most part is the same, unifying it.
And the finish is the fact that console sales are in a decline, GameStop closing stores and having to diversify by selling digital keys for PC. Even the secondhand market isn’t as bountiful. Exclusives coming to PC at a much faster rate. Hell, even PC has exclusives now.
But yeah, you are right. ;)”
Btw, nice post BrainFlush ^^
lol and you guys cant play a game with out a fps counter in the corner..lmao.esports are crap as most mmo’s are today.
all console needs is multiplats and by this article console net revenue is higher then all the esport and mmo’s put toghter..lol
Unlike console PC don’t have to hide behind “exclusive” to stay relevant.
PC is open market rulled by a lot of powerful corporations.
Consoles don’t have that power.
” rulled”
to be ruIIed you gotta have some authority and be abIe to make and impose decisions to the kingdom. None of these corporations can controI pc. None of them can force me to do anything but consoIes…on consoIes sony and ms decides if i can pIay mp without paying them and what mods i can have on faIIout 4.
Give it until Elder Scrolls 6, & Bethesda will have given themselves that power on the PC as well, I’m betting.
They’re already working on a Bethesda Launcher, so I’m thinking they’re just waiting for “that big one” to pull out of Steam, completely.
“open platform” and “ruled” in one sentence doesn’t make sense for PC platform.
While I get what you’re saying the term you’re looking for is Monopoly. Nvidia, Intel,steam all have a monopoly on pc. But here comes the best thing we have other options in the form of amd,gog etc.
That’s what I like about PC we get options and we choose the better one.
What are you gonna do without Intel, AMD and Nvidia? Nothin you can **** ****.
Question is, what AMD,Nvidia and Intel are going to do without PC market ? cuz they are replacables.
If pc is good for mp when why no desinty? If horizon is so good why no xbone version? Or any xbone exIusives at that point? How come nitnedo bareIIy even has any games?
Star citizen was funded by pc gamers and costs more money than any cosnoIe exIusive. Pc has star citizen, ps4 has horizon, which is meh and xbone and nintendo has nothing.
Destiny really is an interesting case study, isn’t it, as, on the one hand, their initial excuse of “we didn’t do a PC port because we didn’t have any more resources left at our disposal, what with our already being spread across 4 platforms” (somewhat) made sense at the time, whereas on the other, the fact that we never got a PC port, even years later, is just mind-boggling, as they’re bringing the sequel to PC, after all.
Especially once you keep in mind their mini-relaunch, which would have been a great time for a PC port. Sure, on the one hand, we’re talking about a console studio that only just returned to the PC after a decade-long absence, but on the other, the sequel is coming, so…..?
Horizon was done by Guerilla games, which is owned by Sony. Sony’s never allowed a Sony subsidiary to release a port of anything, on any non-Sony platform, as far as I’m aware – including Microsoft’s competing Xbox platform, yeah.
Nintendo…. LOL. I honestly have no idea what to put here. I mean, the Switch’s first party titles were just….. wow. And the best part of it all, in my opinion? SEGA is hiring modders to work on their IPs, whereas Nintendo is still DMCAing them, because “F*CK YOU”, I guess? I really don’t know, anymore.
Weeeeeeeell, to be fair, Microsoft does still have Call of Duty: Halo. Y’know, that one IP that they’re slowly running into the ground with each & every entry? That one IP whose last entry sold worse than Halo 3: ODST? Not to mention Gears 4….. that one IP that barely sold, what was it, 150,000 units in its first month?
Record numbers right there, mate, yeah…. Record numbers ^^
;D
The Witcher 3 disagrees with you!
“Every court needs a jester”. We got 3 of them right now.
…or one of them who posts under three different user accounts.
Overall the health of PC gaming is very good. Revenue just keeps going up year after year. Out of a 90 billion dollar games market (including all of the consoles and mobile gaming) for 2016 PC games sales generated a little over 30 billion dollars in revenue.
pc revenue is all esports.keep buying those skins.
MeanwhiIe consoIes and their ever so decreasing number of exIusives.
What?
PS4 has 1500 games of which nearly 40% are exclusives
XB has 1000 games of which nearly 15% are exclusives
55% exclusives, not including Nintendo. Total of 680 exclusives … like Halo 5, Bloodborne .. just to name 2. I knows ya kiddos are more into LoLs and F2P, it is okay..
Numbers from wiki
AAA exclusives, as they’re the only ones which are relevant, unless one of those “1500” exclusives suddenly starts bringing in God of War, Killzone, Halo, & Gears of War numbers.
In terms of AAA exclusives, Sony is down to rebooting God of War as a FEELZ-A-LOT title, the Uncharted spinoff, & the Last of Us sequel, as far as I remember right now.
Microsoft, on the other hand, is down to praying the next Halo will sell well, & that the next Gears of War doesn’t completely flunk. Though, I suppose they’ve got Minecraft still dishing out some money to them, don’t they.
revenue keeps going up because of popularity of microtransactions between PC gamers (not me though)
Yeah………..
No.
Call me nitpicky, but please don’t write “Activision” into the headline when you’re talking about Activision-Blizzard, It’s rather misleading, to me at least….
Probably had something to do with the latest CoD selling like crap (by CoD standards at least) across all 3 platforms, we all know those sales are mainly driven by console peasants. At least Blizzard hasn’t gone to sh*t under Activision the way Bioware has with EA.
“At least Blizzard hasn’t gone to sh*t under Activision the way Bioware has with EA.”
Sorry, what? Ever since the moment Vivendi (Blizzard’s parent company since the ’90s) merged with Activision, they’ve been on a downward spiral; WoW has declined into the sh*tter (both in terms of quality & subscription numbers), Diablo 3 was a horrorshow-trainwreck of an EPIC FAIL riddled with moron-level developers, & Overwatch….. don’t even get me started.
The one thing they’ve done right in the last decade (miraculously) is Starcraft 2, & honestly, even that doesn’t really compare to the original – it’s just not “bad.”
Valid points, but they’re hardly on Bioware’s level of sh*ttiness. I don’t play Blizzard’s games tbh, but it seems like a lot of people love Overwatch, Diablo 3’s improved a lot since it’s disastrous launch (always online can continue to eat a d*ck though), Hearthstone and HotS are supposedly very good for what they are.
Blizzard still seems to be one of the better big developers out there I guess is my point.
Overwatch is a low-skill cap version of Team Fortress 2, designed for the most casual of casuals audience, which is why people “love” Overwatch; it’s easy, dumb, & riddled with scrub crutches. Hell, in that regard, it’s even worse than Call of Duty.
Diablo 3 improved with the v2.0 launch, I agree, but then Blizzard found ways to f*ck that up as well (as they always do, really), so now it’s been degraded to a new level of sh*ttiness. Not to mention them cancelling the second expansion they had planned in favour of trickling down content piecemeal instead, & expecting people to pay for the new character class when they haven’t even fixed the old ones.
Heroes of the Storm is a watered down typical Blizzard casual-oriented piece of sh*t MOBA. Is it good? Debatable. Does it compare to DOTA 2 & LoL? F*ck no. Their original All-Stars DOTA project failed, like so many others did, so they degraded it into this, instead, in order to get some kind of financial return on their investment (same as with Overwatch).
Hearthstone…. ugh. The effect Hearthstone’s success has had on the industry just automatically puts it in a negative light as far as I’m concerned, period. I mean, ffs, even CDPR is doing a card game now. WHY? WHY CDPR, WHY?!
They’re technically neither better nor worse than any other, they’re just extremely focused on maximising profits through appealing to as many casuals as possible, which results in a degraded experience for everyone else. That, coupled with the undue amount of influence they wield on this industry, has continuously resulted in seriously nasty side-effects every time they successfully pull off one of their moronic stunts.
Also, the biggest, yet least evident problem with Blizzard is that while its games are extremely successful from a financial point of view, they don’t retain their communities in the long-term, even though they’re designed to be long term investments from both the developers & the community, exactly & solely because of Blizzard. See, most others just launch a sh*t product, get their launch window profits, & then abandon it, at one point or another. Maybe they patch it better (to a degree), maybe they don’t.
Blizzard, on the other hand, purposefully go out of their way to kill their games through sheer laziness, incompetence, idiocy, etc. etc. etc. It’s a quote I’ve used before, but it stands time quite well, so here it is again, as it extremely accurately describes exactly how Blizzard approaches changing/balancing/whatever something in a game (more often simply for the sake of changing something, rather than because the “something” in question actually needs to be changed, really);
“Before the change:
90% of people don’t care
10% of people are happy to [insert]
After the change:
90% of people don’t care
10% of people are pissed off
Net result: great success.
Well spent development time.”
The end result of this approach being, of course, that time after time people end up enraged at the moronic change in question that Blizzard has seemingly just pulled out of their *ss, so they take to the forums & rant for days/weeks on end about the aforementioned change, which in 99/100 cases results in absolutely nothing happening what-so-ever, since Blizzard almost always ignores this backslash, & instead opts to push forward regardless of what (the exception to this rule usually being those specific cases in which the change in question has such far-reaching universal consequences, that they have actually succeed in enraging the entire community to the point wherein they can’t ignore the overwhelming hate that’s being directed at them for the latest piece of r*tardation they’ve taken it upon themselves to implement, which in turn results in a swift, decisive reversal), “because we know what you dumb c*nts want better than you do, so shut the f*ck up, bend over, & take it up the *ss already, you little b*tches.”
As such, eventually people get tired of being treated like little children, ragequit, & tell them to f*ck off, either temporarily, or permanently. It happened to WoW, it happened to Diablo, & it’ll happen to Overwatch eventually, as well. Hell, even Starcraft was hit by this upon occasion, really. Most importantly though, by this point it’s happened on so many occasions, I really can’t tell if they’re doing it on purpose, or if they’re really just that stupid. Either way, the amount of damage they do is not something to be underestimated.
how the f*** you have patience to write all these wall of text???
PS: I don’t believe that I read all these in single breath
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ecc7030c215535808fba450463f425c6953fef065a98beddf26ecd7a4e4c6f12.jpg
😀
No, but yeah, I have a desk job, great typing skills, & a lot of downtime with little to no supervision (not to mention sh*t pay to go with it), which leaves me constantly bored & looking for something to do, so, yeah ^^
Oh, & I hate Blizzard with a burning passion. F*ck those pr*cks.
LMAO…can I ask what sector/industry you in?
Thank you, I try ^^
Data Entry these days (got to love those old corps with the archived papers & all :D)
“Huh, that was longer than expected”
Yes, for the love of God, Shudup 😀
umm the author of this article is wrong.
net revenue
first line console 615m
2nd line pc 566m
looks like console are doing better then pc.any can see the author is wrong.
“while this is lower than the console revenue, we do have to note that
the console category includes a lot of console platforms. As such, the
most profitable singular platform is undoubtedly the PC.”
Blind or Stupid ?
Why not both?
did you actually read that this isnt based on specific console. net revenue of pc and console total get it?
“while this is lower than the console revenue”you just posted it pc net revenue is LOWER then console.
this article clearly shows consoles doing better then pc.
first line console 615m
2nd line pc 566m
net total revenue. you cant argue the facts.
So you saying pc made aImost as much money as 2 systems despite no one bought the Iast cod on pc and yet this is a bad thing because??
Since when consoles manufacturers share their revenue with each other ?
They are not one, they are 3 different companies and compete against each other, they can not be united and that’s a fact.
still, console markets as a whole should be more important to them so i doubt this means anything
Yeah right, sorry i was wrong, i forgot that every night Sony/MS and Nintendo sit on a table and share their profits with each other.
Yeah right, sorry i was wrong, i forgot that every night Steam/MS and GOG sit on a table and share their profits with each other.
Blizzard isn’t on Steam, or GOG?
Literally, the only place you can buy their games from is the Battle[.]Net Store.
Also, GOG doesn’t carry most major AAAs at launch, so your argument is overwhelmingly moot, really, except in those specific case-by-case exceptions wherein a publisher actually goes out of their way to launch a game on both Steam & GOG, concurrently.
what does autism mean?
also i’m wondering if you read my comment before replying since you missed “console market as a whole”
Read the article, dumb*ss. He states that the 615m is spread across multiple platforms.
Same applies to all those 1,000,000,000 PCs?! Dipshit ..
615mill. revenue with a basis of what 55mill. PS4+20XB1 end of 2016 versus
566mill. revenue (PC) with a basis of what ten times the console market … great for pointing out that each consolero makes more money.
Sony PS4 owners MADE 2016 more money (software alone) than whole Valve´s steam 2016+2015 combined (well nearly … but very close). Eat that up kozo. But then again this wont show up, because this site favors p.c.c.
I believe what your autistic, garbled, peasant scribblings were trying to communicate is that the average individual console owner brought in more money than the average PC gamer. That’s a false equivalency, just because there are close to a billion PC’s out there doesn’t mean every PC owner plays video games, much less those specifically from Activision. These simple charts shown don’t give us enough information to determine whether or not that is the case. Even if that were the case, who cares? The ultimate goal of a company is to try to make as much money as possible. In the case of mobile gaming, that means catering to the whales. On console and PC though, at least with retail games, that means selling as many copies to as many people as possible, in addition to selling DLC, etc.
The article was simply correct: PC owners brought in more revenue for Activision Blizzard than any single console platform for Q1 2017.
dummy
Geez who would have guessed pc was so profitable
But DIE CONSOLES!
It’s important to Blizz, but as for Activision, I doubt it, not when their games sell like crap on Steam (which is on their behalf).
it’s important to blizzard but overall this is bad news for PC gamers, it means more microtransactions
Microtrans are already in nearly every AAA game these days, even on consoles.
mostly PC, that’s why there are so many f2p and monthly subscription games on PC
Actually monthly subscription has almost completely died, but nice try.
As for F2P; have you considered looking into what type of game on the PC is F2P, specifically? For example; there’s a lot of F2Ps targeting Asia, specifically. Other F2Ps target Russia, specifically, & so on, & so forth.
People lump those “regional” games together with the greater PC platform & then try to make a big deal out of the amount of F2P games on the PC, it’s ridiculous.
It’s actually in both believe it or not. There are even F2P games on consoles that feature micro trans.
I like how you’re trying to paint PC with a wider brush in order to make it look bad, which is typical of you.
Genuinely surprised by that given that COD isn’t as well received on PC as console, Destiny isn’t out on it, nor is Skylanders. I think the Blizzard side of Activision Blizzard is doing the heavy lifting, and a quiet console release quarter is also a factor.
And they say we are all a bunch of pirates, well I guess that blows that theory away then.
“blizz not only love scr*wing with what isn’t broken”
This. So much this. One of their developers even admitted as much, some years back; they actually like taking us on a roller coaster. It doesn’t even matter to them if they’re in the middle of a PvP Season or something, nope, just slap on those super-controversial changes, & remember to slap on your “F*CK YOU!” sunglasses.
I think they are like Bethesda these days. They have a huge following and they know the casual fans will forgive them for it, while the dedicated will complain and move onto something else, Blizz doesn’t care for those of us that move on, they certainly didn’t care when it came to giving WoW sub numbers or possibly even bothering to give it a new engine.
bethesda is the same way at times:
“no reviews for you until we say so”
“The modders will fix our game”
“Blizz doesn’t care for those of us that move on, they certainly didn’t care when it came to giving WoW sub numbers”
Exactly. Seriously, the best thing to happen to Blizzard for f*cking years now, was the retirement of Chris Motherf*cking Metzen. That guy, that *sshole imbecile moron was the start of all of this. Him, & the other guy, Morhaime. Those two have been cancer for I don’t even know how many years, now.
Maybe now they’ll finally be able to wise up a little & pull themselves out of the gutter? Though, to be fair, I doubt it.
Consoles could sell double or triple than PC, who cares, it’s painfully obvious PC was, is and will always be the superior platform.
you mean the platform where revenue is derived from microtransactions with card packs and loot boxes. wow. so great.
Yeah pretty much it. They make a good game which skilled players can enjoy, in the next update they introduce RnG stuff in it, then they make it more random and in the end it’s a facebook game that you have to waste more money and time to get the stuff that you already paid for.
Don’t get me started with their fanboys, most savage shills in universe.
Consoles are still number 1
xbox 1 is selling faster then the x360 did, so its fine.
ps4 is number 1
PC may be one component, but there are more PC’s then x1 and ps4 combined.
This article is reaching…
Your got TRUTHED!
“xbox 1 is selling faster then the x360 did, so its fine.”
Who cares? The real question is, how much is it outselling the PlayStation 4? Oh, wait, it isn’t.
Surely that can’t be true? As console fanboys pointed out, the PC is dead with the XBOX Scorpio around the corner and teh powa of the cloud and PlayStation Pro that is stronger than 90% of PC’s out there.
/s
– Sorry, what exactly do you think the Apple 2 was, exactly, if not a Personal Computer? Also, you seem to either be excluding, or you’re simply unaware of the Great Video Game Industry Crash of 1983-1985, which was solely the responsibility of… wait for it – CONSOLES.
– No change against the PS1? Are you, like, high, or something? Also, should I even bring up how far back into video game history you’re going with this ’80s & early ’90s stuff? No? Yeah, I didn’t think so.
– You mean that age that started during the mid-’90s & continued up-&-through to 2006, wherein people were developing games for the PC, & then maybe porting them over to 1, maybe 2 consoles, if even? Yeah, good times.
– PC was what during the early 2000s? See above, kiddo.
– Port beggings? “Beggings”? “Beggings” isn’t even a word, for one thing, & for another, “beg”? Seriously?
Keep telling yourself that, kiddo.
An*s Numbers are the best, aren’t they? 😀
“Witcher 3 sold approx. 5ish mill times on the pc with up to 1bill.”
And that right there is where I got my absolute confirmation that you’re *sspulling these numbers from way up in there.
Seriously, you should see a doctor about that, it’s very unhealthy.
Uh, the comparison was against consoles, Apple2 and Amiga/C64 are still computers.
As for the rest, you clearly haven’t got the slightest clue of what you’re yappin’ about:
PC Early – mid 90s: Wolf3d, System Shock, DOOM, QUAKE, SimCity 2000, Diablo, Warcraft, Warcraft 2, Dune 2, Duke Nukem 3D, XCOM, DOTT, Theme Park, Syndicate, DOOM 2, Secret of Monkey Island, Last Crusade, Fate of Atlantis, Civ 1 & 2, Monkey Island 2, Gabriel Knight, C&C Red Alert, Ultima Underworld 1 & 2 and I could keep going on and on and on…
Late 90s: More of the same, if not better.
Early 2000: Same. Thief 2, Soldier of Fortune, Deus Ex, Diablo 2, Baldur’s Gate 2, Red Alert 2, NOLF, Hitman, Operation Flashpoint, Max Payne, Shogun Total War, Arcanum, AvP2, IL-2 Sturmovik, Civ 3, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Gothic, Gothic 2, Jedi Outcast, Morrowind, Soldier of Fortune 2, Neverwinter Nights, Warcraft 3, Mafia, Battlefield 1942, Age of Mythology, Temple of Elemental Evil, Bloodlines and again I could keep going on and on and on.
PC started to see a decline in quality games from 2002 on, thanks to dumboxes Xbawks and PS2, wanting to emulate 1st and 3rd person (and even RTS) PC games for which they weren’t prepared (crap hardware and terribly inadequate input devices)
So please, try to inform yourself before going around writing bullsh*t.
Scroll down a bit, he’s got a mega-post riddled with more such bullsh*t, it’s hilarious.
Bah, not worth it to spend any more of my time with an ignorant peasant shill.
Ugh, I always forget about that assclown.
“There is also lots of conflicting feedback, where people are unhappy for different & conflicting reasons.”
Holy sh*t! People don’t agree on something! OH MY GOD! THE HORROR! THE TRAGEDY! WHAT. SHALL. WE. DO!
But yeah, not the first time I heard such bullsh*t from Blizzard, unfortunately. For them, whenever something is wrong in one of their games, it’s always the same excuses; either “working as intended”, or “we don’t see what the problem is.”
I.E. “F*CK YOU.”
Yeah, it’s basically their way or the literal highway when it comes to change
Remember when they actually confessed to taking a vote to no longer implement flying in WoW, forever? I mean, beyond the idiocy of that very idea unto itself, the actual fact that they confessed to such a moronic feat……
Not to mention the good old “flying is just a flip of the switch away!” bullsh*t. Oh, those lying little f*ckers.
The idea of not being allowed to fly, made their RNG gambling idea all the better for them. I still remember the old days, back when we had to earn our flying mounts, but even then we had to wade through so much crap to get from one zone to the other. I’d rather we not go back to the stone age age of WoW.
I disliked how they locked it for in Warlords and also to a degree in Legion, though both can be unlocked via stupid amounts of cheevo grinding, but I gave up because they gimped my main class and reason for playing WoW, the locks.
So my long post got censored (oops), so check back later for that one, but in the meantime, have this little addendum;
In regards to flying; My favourite part of the “no flying, ever again” edict, personally, was always how Warlords Collector’s Edition actually came with a flying mount. To this day, I have yet to forget the irony of that.
Also, yeah, the hilarious “unlock this meta to achieve flying!” thing. I mean, why? What happened to just buying the f*ck thing at max level? Why do I need Loremaster to know how to fly, ffs?
The Stone Age was definitely a Stone Age, indeed, but hey, come on, it did have its moments! Y’know, before LFG came along & started defiling the very meaning of the words “Massively Multiplayer Online Community.”
Please never type a response again… oh screw it im blocking you. i need you to no longer exist on the internet.
lol
I like this site its small enough that you can find all the console trash trolls fast and block them.
Are you stupid? the early 2000s were amazing for pc gaming…
Its almost like you can feel two different activision employees look at each other and go
“DLC?”
“DLC.”
I read these comments and i don’t get if you understand the console sales are combined on multiple platforms. As they say console-s you do understand that multiple platforms PS4/3/XboxOne/360 and so on. even when one platform is 50% of that sum. PC is way way more profitable. Also different consoles have different development costs so by that fact PC is way way profitable for the company.
615m console net revenue
566m pc revenue
which makes devs more money consoles end of story.
morons and skin byuing.the only reason pc still lives to day..lol…so sad.