MediaKick: "“Built for the digital consumer,” Kaz Hirai mused when he unveiled the PSP Go back in E3 2009. This represented a significant step in the direction of a digital only future for games and other entertainment media, or so Kaz Hirai and the rest of Sony hoped. In reality, the PSP Go only served to show the word that we are not ready for a digital only future just yet, or if we as consumers even want one, but that doesn’t mean we won’t be at some stage."
On 16 May, the long-awaited release of the PC version of Ghost of Tsushima took place. And the game proved to be a great success on the first day.
It has surpassed spider man now
it's 71k+
game did this with way shorter time than spider man.
@prince
I'm confused. Does that number mean total players at one time playing like a snapshot
or total sales? If it's the former that's not very accurate because I know I'm not the only person that buys games and plays them later and that number is not included.
Is this going to be the new thing thing? Articles about Steam reviews? Which of course was in response to the false article about the review bombings in the first place.
Hey, just a heads up that the new owners did open news to Steam updates, but we try our best to not allow them to go on daily updates unless relevant to some other news. I understand this isn't everyone's cup and tea and sympathize, but the door has been open. If you feel it's 'too much' please do PM me or submit a ticket to the mod team. Thank you.
I came here to post this link in that specific article. 84 perce t is pretty good. How many bad reviews were there like 5
I always get confused by this, but is 72k good sales numbers for a game? I keep seeing games fail at selling 2.5 million and that they need to be on multiple platforms but is an additional 72k adding much?
Im not sure how its confusing :\
72k actively playing. Not 72k sold.
A good example is Helldivers 2, 6m sold, 450k (at its peak) active players.
But how many swords swung is what we're all really waiting for.
for one they already had a huge launch on the playstation, they don't need to sell 5m to make the porting to pc profitable and as pointed out below that number you see is just the people playing it at this moment.
Also from the insomniac leak we know these PC ports are a quick turnaround and budgeted around $2-4 million. At 100k sales they break even including Steams cut. They may not sell millions but they are a great ROI
72k concurrent. That is a global number. People who bought the game are not playing at the same time because of timezones, working schedules, holidays, events... There is no good rule of thumb but you can extrapolate based on other games that also released sales data. Then it is clear that the PC release alone accounts for at least 500K copies sold on steam, maybe closer to 700-800K. Probably will sell over a million this extended weekend.
According to steamspy and other data gathering sites games like Days Gone, Spider Man, God Of War, Horizon Zero Dawn have sold 2 to 5 million copies on Steam. So I expect Ghost to reach similar numbers. Probably even surpass it.
Mecha Party brings the VR MOBA to Europe and Asia on PSVR 2 and Steam, while the Quest 3 version targets a summer release.
This looks pretty good. RIGZ made me queasy but I've got better VR legs now (I think).
This article explains how to link your Steam and PlayStation Networks accounts, which is becoming a must for Helldivers 2.
Well digital is great. I personally have over 200 games with Steam, most of them were bought very cheaply. Due to the PC platsforms BC i get to keep all of them for a very very long time. I am currently shifting home, i dont have to worry about shifting 200 odd boxes. While this is all good in the PC market. I would think this is also due to the fact we have alot of competition in the PC digital market of the top of my head Steam, D2D, Gamersgate, GOG, GFWL, Origin, all of these constantly give discounts to promote the prices of digital games on the PC.
On consoles however i do see digital only as a gloomy future, which will further place further control in the hands of the console makers (which really isnt a good thing), already they completely control the machines. If consoles were to go digital, it would mean Sony would hold complete sales control on PSN and MS would hold complete control for XBL with no one else to compete on those networks. MS and Sony might as well set prices and not bother with discounts since there wont be anyone competing with them. Hence i personally dont like a digital only future for consoles.
For a home console digital only is a no go.
For handhelds I'd say yea. In fact I'd even go as far as to say we need a cloud based handheld console. It would make gaming on the go so much more convenient. I was hoping the Vita would go this route.