The boxed PC version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 sold around 170,000 units in November, according to Gamasutras NPD analysis.
Compared to the 6 million units the game shifted on consoles in one month, thats a rounding error. Want to know why all those boycotts over feature cuts dont work? Because nobody bought Modern Warfare 2 on PC.
As Ive written before, PC gamers only account for a small fraction of Modern Warfare 2 users. Its just not worth the time, effort and expense for companies like Activision to please such a small fraction of the audience.
(Yes, the NPD only counts sales of boxed product, and many PC gamers do like to download their games. Without the release of download sales numbers, its impossible to get a perfect figure.)
So the bad news is that PC gamers can expect their demands to elicit little more than barely-stifled yawns from the people who make mega-hit multiplatform titles: There are just not enough of you to merit special treatment.
Heres the silver lining, though: 170,000 is still a lot of people. And for every big publisher that turns its back on the community, there are ten companies willing to bend over backwards to make the hard-core happy.
If PC gamers know whats good for them, theyll start rewarding these companies for their efforts.