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THQN: Absolute majority of Metro Exodus revenue coming from consoles, no comment on PC sales
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Interesting spin!
Epic Store is number one if you exclude the primarily physical console sales. I don't know for what reason you would do this.
It also beat out Steam, but I don't think they had any major (or even any at all?) new releases on Steam for this time period.
When will people learn that "we are the #1 platform!" means nothing without actual numbers. PS4 and Xbox One version could have sold 500 copies between the two and 501 on EGS and that would be technically correct.
And the number must not be very good, since they had no problem rallying behind the WWZ 250k or so copies.
And the number must not be very good, since they had no problem rallying behind the WWZ 250k or so copies.
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There's no other way to buy the game on PC beyond EGS digital release and console players are going to focus on the physical copy over the digital, so what is there to doubt?
It's a positive spin on an expected outcome that has no real bearing on overall sales.
HOLD THE LINE!
Seriously though, real test will be Borderlands 3. As much as I hate what epic is doing, I have a strange feeling alot of folks going to cave for that one
Seriously though, real test will be Borderlands 3. As much as I hate what epic is doing, I have a strange feeling alot of folks going to cave for that one
For real. It's so easy to be the best at something when completely ignoring specific and not-insignificant factors to reach that milestone.
This is some galaxy brain levels of intentionally misleading PR spin.
That's part of the problem, though - when these folks cave and buy Borderlands 3 on EGS, what's going to make them continue buying games on EGS moving forward?
For instance, I bought Control in the EGS sale because Epic was dumb enough to give me 10 dollars for free, effectively giving me nearly 50% off on an unreleased game (due to regional pricing). That doesn't mean I have any incentive to buy more games from them moving forward. Why would I?
They're paying crazy money for the right to say they had x game come out on their digital store first and I'm smiling from ear to ear knowing it's been a disaster for both Epic and the publisher.
I doubt Source 2 will ever be any sort of serious threat to Unreal Engine, Valve probably has like 10 people working on it at the most and they'll probably never be able to compete with features that Unreal has because Epic probably has way more people working on the engine. I doubt we'll see a lot of console specific optimizations and documentation if the Source 2 SDK releases which will hurt it's adoption.
Apparently Valve has a pretty good relationship with Unity (I've heard they're actually in the same office) and Valve does work in Unity. If anything I could see Valve teaming up with Unity in some way.
Well, to be honest, I think that at this point I would also like EPIC to just leave pc gaming alone for good. I dont think there is anything that makes me want to use it ever, in some weird way it almost feels personal.
But the original comment was a bit tongue in cheeck and I meant that hopefully pubs will read this correctly and not jump into some weird rabbit hole where games dont sell and everybody is a pirate.
Its number 1 because he removed physical sales of consoles. Which is meaningless and proves nothing since we have no sales ratio of digital / physical of the game on consoles.
We are the good guys! Many, MANY people, said so. Also we are winning, WINNING at the game sales. Absolutely crushing it on that area.
We're gonna
Don't get me wrong, it's definitely sustainable, but during Gen 7 it looked like it would be omnipresent by now.