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THQN: Absolute majority of Metro Exodus revenue coming from consoles, no comment on PC sales
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Rock Paper Shotgun publishes top 10 best selling Steam games weekly.
The week after Exodus was pulled from Steam, it registered as number 6... on the strength of a day's worth of last-minute pre-orders (the game was pulled on a Monday).
I'm sure that spike accounts for a good portion of the initial profit. With no price competition driving the price down while the game's exclusive to EGS, I can see its long-tail being pretty poor.
The week after Exodus was pulled from Steam, it registered as number 6... on the strength of a day's worth of last-minute pre-orders (the game was pulled on a Monday).
I'm sure that spike accounts for a good portion of the initial profit. With no price competition driving the price down while the game's exclusive to EGS, I can see its long-tail being pretty poor.
Also telling that it's very long sale. Steam Summer sale already is very long and this is more than double the length and everything is sold at loss due to $10 discount.
Just want to echo all the sentiments made here, but I'm so glad to see this news, especially after Epic tried to claim this game was doing SOOO great on their storefront (Eyeroll).
I can only hope to see similar thread titles about future Epic exclusives selling poorly or below expectations.
I can only hope to see similar thread titles about future Epic exclusives selling poorly or below expectations.
I read this more like "wow the console market really is a good place to be" just like how Witcher 2 and 3 did better on consoles than PC by a large amount t
You could have honestly not added a "when it comes to pc gaming". Wouldn't trust this board to know different types of clouds.
The Witcher 2 absolutely didn't do better on the 360 than the PC.
Witcher 2 is practically pc exclusive.
Witcher 3 probably sold more millions on pc than any single console.
That was only true at launch (because the nature of consoles means physical copies are still a big thing and must be shipped before, which means they have a dedicated shipment already)
Multiplat games always sell better on consoles. I suppose the only exceptions would be RTS games and similar genres.
Edit: RPGSs too apparently ☺
The game isn't good, plus the technical state at release was straight up garbage. EGS surely plays a part in it but its not the whole side of the story
Glad the series has seen growth at least overall on console systems.
The reedux games and long lead up to Exodus gave me time to brought me and become a big fan of the series.
Plus Exodus was pretty great!
I have noticed this weird trend on Era where posters are using crunch to beat up other players up when they have legit gripes.
It's really strange.
The reedux games and long lead up to Exodus gave me time to brought me and become a big fan of the series.
Plus Exodus was pretty great!
I have noticed this weird trend on Era where posters are using crunch to beat up other players up when they have legit gripes.
It's really strange.
I think Fallout always sell well simply because its Bethesda and nobody gives a shit about it, since you know, mods. Consumers have been wanting solid ports and whatnot since Arkham Knight it feels like. I've been enraged about Bethesda since more than a decade and only F 76 / TES Blades actually got slammed. Feels like progress still, but a slow one
Utterly shocking to no one, other than perhaps the tribal support of Egs circulating from platform warring folks with no interest beyond this in the PC ecosystem, and that demonstrably show no knowledge what service providers are actually doing.
Also double shock that the extraordinarily vague statements from Epic were completely misleading
Also double shock that the extraordinarily vague statements from Epic were completely misleading
I'm sure that Epic is happy to pay a ton of money for a game that doesn't sell, and that the dev/pub is happy that their long term prospects on the platform have taken a hit. Lol.
I legitimately cannot believe how in the actual heck THQN has 80 games in development. Sincerely do not understand how that's sustainable. Probably the most incredibly scary thing I've ever seen in my entire life and I'm not even involved. Especially since they don't have any development studios that are amazing. 4A games and Volition are the only proven ones and even they aren't exactly "amazing". They put out good games. But not amazing games. Everything else they have is very A or AA. I think they're like one big hit away from becoming the next E3 presenter if they can keep up their production.
THQNordic and EGS is like the power couple of offending business decisions right now.
They deserve each other, but the rest of us deserve better.
They deserve each other, but the rest of us deserve better.
I could get it for $20 on this epic sale, I will wait for $5 on steam
It was the end of the Metro trilogy, so maybe they don't really mind the series' name losing its shine since there's nothing left to do with it?
I see what you mean, but if that number was sufficient to coast by until it hits Steam and GOG (e.g. at least around the lower bound of what they hoped to sell), it wouldn't really matter, right.
It's the end of the main trilogy. But there are still 52 books left to make games for!
http://www.metro2033.ru/books/
They'll absolutely do more games in the future for as long as the franchise sells well.
This is absolutely gonna happen. Most people will just wait for a sale. You already held off for a year so it's no big deal.
Am i wrong to be reading that as when the game was available on steam before being removed?
Launch year is where the majority of sales come from, they absolutely sold better on consoles.That was only true at launch (because the nature of consoles means physical copies are still a big thing and must be shipped before, which means they have a dedicated shipment already)
It's pretty clear to anybody who has been paying attention that the EGS hasn't been doing as well as expected. The fact that we have a loss leading ''Mega Sale'' to try and buy customers in to their eco system tells it's own story. The only sad part is that a lot of people fall for this shit. Rather than exercise a bit of self control and demand better it's ''ooooooh but it's really cheap''. I mean it's cheap for a fucking reason, it's loss leading and offers less than the vast majority of digital stores out there.
even more so when Era scared away half of PC era last month lol.
Wonderful news! I hope that in time developers and publishers start feeling that Epic's money isn't worth it.
Now by the time Exodus arrives on Steam it will be old, and should be selling for at least $20. Try and push $60 for your old game, and you will continue to fail.
Third party PC games should be on as many stores and launchers on day one, as possible!
Now by the time Exodus arrives on Steam it will be old, and should be selling for at least $20. Try and push $60 for your old game, and you will continue to fail.
Third party PC games should be on as many stores and launchers on day one, as possible!
It is easy to spend money. From what we know next two quarters will be light for THQ, and THQ is publicly traded company so if you are not making money your share price goes down.
I heard this a couple of times, never saw the source of the quote, do you know where/when he said that?
That's simply not the case in game ecosystems where there is a significant PC component.
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