That was actually my thought making that post, but on my system I have to use adaptive vsync and the hints of tearing take it down a peg.
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Dark Souls 3 and MGS5 sales top 1 million copies on Steam (SteamSpy)
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That was actually my thought making that post, but on my system I have to use adaptive vsync and the hints of tearing take it down a peg.
pretty done
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Well deserved for DS3.
As for MGS5, at least the port is good.... heh. Wonder if they'll ever port the MGS HD collection to have most of them on Steam and make a quick ez buck.
As for MGS5, at least the port is good.... heh. Wonder if they'll ever port the MGS HD collection to have most of them on Steam and make a quick ez buck.
Lumpy Onion
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Glad to hear. Two of the greatest games I've ever played.
Verendus mentioned it before last E3 but nothing materilized since then.
pretty done
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That's cool, maybe we'll hear something this year since Konami don't seem to have that much going on. I'd definitely buy MGS HD Collection and Silent Hill HD Collection (hey, it's better than nothing) day zero.
I'm pretty sure they gave up on it after the Kojima stuff
Well I assume they did at least.I am always glad when games do well on steam, it makes the PC gaming market that much stronger. Dark Souls III is excellent and MGS V is good but definitely not great IMO. MGS V would have benefited greatly from a few more varied areas. I got very sick of visiting the same locations over and over again. It makes me happy that both sold well though...
"On May 10, 2016, Bandai Namco announced that Dark Souls III had reached three million total copies shipped worldwide, with 500,000 in Japan and Asia, 1.5 million in North America, and one million in Europe." (from the wikipedia article)
Source: Gematsu
Quite a bit more than that by now, then.
Not sure if they included digital copies in their shipped numbers though. Assuming they did, someone could track how many copies it had sold on steam by May 10 and get an estimate on how many additional copies it sold since then.
Fantastic numbers for the franchise either way.
I would love to see Atlus games on PC but they seem to have tunnel vision and focus solely on Japan, so I'm not expecting them to change that anytime soon.
MineralCraver420
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I love that so many Japanese games are getting quality PC ports now.
Persona 4 Golden and Nier next please.
Nice for both of them, MGSV is the best action TPS game ever made and let's be honest here, it will probably be at the top for years... it's maybe time for Konami to put the MGS collection on PC too, thanks.
Dark souls 3 is not as good as Bloodborne but definitely a great Soul game, congrats.
Dark souls 3 is not as good as Bloodborne but definitely a great Soul game, congrats.
Porting the Legacy Collection to PC/PS4/XBO would be cheap, risk-adverse, and have huge margins. Would basically fit perfectly with Konami's current strategy, I fully believe it will happen at one point.
VolticArchangel
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Very well deserved for both. Was actually worried for V since it wasn't moving past that 900k+ odd number since november/december. Congrats to Unit 8 on the development. Hope your parent company open their gaming division in Las Vegas soon.
bobawesome
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Remember, kids: it's not port begging if it's for the PC.
Stumpokapow
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Any sales updates on Quantum Break for UWP?
pretty done
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It's not port begging to say Atlus ignores the PC
"Quantum Break has a massive untapped customer base that has exceeded 350 Million Windows 10 devices."
Or something like that. Wouldn't even bat an eye if some marketing guy tells publishers something like that. And that the Windows 10 Store has a bigger userbase than Steam.
Probably not much, I've heard nothing official more than it not selling to expectations on all platforms.
Calm waterfall
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I highly doubt that. Do you have a link?
The series sells similar amounts, if not more, on PC and digital versions generate far and away more income than retail.
It's not a very difficult assumption to make.
Real_Madrid
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You didn't make it sound like an assumption and do you have proof for your first sentence?
Calm waterfall
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So you have no evidence whatsoever. Also the games sell $60 on consoles vs 50 on PC. And it is not similar amount at all. DS3 shipped 3 million and only a third sold on PC.
Shipped != Sold
Aceofspades
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I thought DS3 passed that long ago .
Well deserved.
Well deserved.
Number breakdown posted above, though I dislike the way From presents the data.
Demonstrates a basic misunderstanding about how revenue is generated.
Shipped is not sold, but even disregarding that the PC version has still generated more revenue than either console platform.
Dark Souls 3 is 60$ regular price on PC. And 60$ physical copy sold still brings less money than 50$ on digital so you'de be wrong either way.
Shipped and sold are not the same thing.
So yes, DS3 probably sold better on PC, and it definitely had better revenue.
Nope, that isn't how it works in any way, shape or form.
Calm waterfall
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Shipped=demand. The console versions have long surpassed the million, so yeah DS3 sold more on consoles.
Thats not how it works
Real_Madrid
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Still, there's no proof whatsoever about your statement about revenue. That something sold more or less, doesn't matter that much if you don't know the exact figures and you don't know the exact figures.
Yeah, a lot of members still seem to think shipped=sold and that publishers get all 60 dollars to themselves.
You must realize that companies tend to obfuscate this type of information.
Stump'd em
Calm waterfall
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I understand revenues pretty well, and Steam takes 30% of that revenue so .... And the numbers favor consoles.
No I am not wrong either way. DS3 did not sell more on PC nor did it make more revenues, unless you can prove otherwise. DS3 sold around 300k alone on PS4 in Japan, so yeah, unless you have any evidence to back up what you are saying, don't throw these kind of assumptions as facts.
PSN also takes 30%, and physycal takes almost double that, so uh, no, you don't seem to understand revenues pretty well in the slightest.
And wow, it sold 300k in Japan! Your point being?
Oh cool are we doing that thing where we count PlayStation and Xbox together for some reason?
To say nothing of shipped vs. sold and you getting the price blatantly wrong.
Real_Madrid
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Only if you for some reason count every copy sold on steam as a 50 euro digital thing and every copy sold on console as a 60 euro physical thing.
Yes. even better actually, 375.183 copies according to Famitsu http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=208735605&postcount=70
Real_Madrid
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You must realize that companies tend to obfuscate this type of information.
Stump'd em
That's my point, you make an assumption (based on mostly irrelevant information) sound like a fact.
Retail cuts are around the same between countries, so a retail copy sold in indonesia is still less revenue than digital. It's not like retail cuts are exclusive to the US or Europe.
This is a pretty pointless discussing, you won't convince the other of anything by being condescending to eachother while both sides are talking about unkowns and guesswork with sprinkles of easily verifyable wrong facts.
The PC might have given FS the most revenue or it might have been the ps4 depending on the ps4 sales, but we have no idea which of it it is more than just (un)educated guesses.
we can't expect FS to go out with official numbers as that's something that most devs/pubs will try to keep a secret.
But we can all agree with that eitherway PC has probably generated a lot of revenue for FS and will continue to do so in the future.
Please remember why sales threads often gets locked and try to act accordingly.
The PC might have given FS the most revenue or it might have been the ps4 depending on the ps4 sales, but we have no idea which of it it is more than just (un)educated guesses.
we can't expect FS to go out with official numbers as that's something that most devs/pubs will try to keep a secret.
But we can all agree with that eitherway PC has probably generated a lot of revenue for FS and will continue to do so in the future.
Please remember why sales threads often gets locked and try to act accordingly.
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