53% of BC2 sales on 360 (UK)

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[QUOTE="blue_hazy_basic"] Errr UK has a huge PC gaming market (football manager is always a top seller in the RETAIL not including DD sales) but it also has a huge console market too. I think there are just more gamers (partly culture partly weather)blue_hazy_basic

from the link by anjunaddict.

"During peak US hours the Xbox 360 dominates the player numbers. When that post [the one claiming PC numbers were greater] was made it was the Europeans playing and pushed the PC numbers higher," wrote DICE staffer Bazajaytee on the EA forum.

[QUOTE="Crystal-Rush"]Yeah it kind of contradicts that report about PC having more players. Even though this is UK sales only i'd think the numbers would be similar for other territories Theguy56

Not surprised.

BFBC2 has sold out twice where I work. Where as the PS3 version is only now down to it's last few copies now.

most pc sales were digital rather than retail

I thought the PC percentage in the Uk Would be higher but then again it does not surprise me.solidgamer

Yeah it kind of contradicts that report about PC having more players. Even though this is UK sales only i'd think the numbers would be similar for other territories Crystal-Rush

Wow, this is interesting. It seems to suggest that there's less "hardcore" PC gamers out there than PS3 users. Could this be a sign that PC gaming is in decline?

gamecubepad

UK is 360 centric, most likely due to the ridiculous price of the PS3 outside of Japan/NA.

I thought it was already established that the 360 version usually sells better?

[QUOTE="solidgamer"]I thought the PC percentage in the Uk Would be higher but then again it does not surprise me.Killfox

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I remember when theUK used to be called Sonyland on these boards ... :P

Javy03

Pc games are handled digitally now. I'm actually surprised that PC managed to reach 16% in total retail sales for UK.

Pc games are handled digitally now. I'm actually surprised that PC managed to reach 16% in total retail sales for UK.

JangoWuzHere

So....the 360 version has a bigger community than the PC overall at the moment then?Ravensmash

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"Ravensmash"]So....the 360 version has a bigger community than the PC overall at the moment then?KHAndAnime

lol.

everyone can afford PSN though....where are they by the way?

BF: Bad Company 2 outsold the original Bad Company's launch week numbers almost 3 to 1.

"According to Chart-Track, BC2 is the "best ever launch for any game released this early in the year." Interestingly, 53 percent of BC2 sales went to the Xbox 360 version, followed by 31 percent and 16 percent of sales for the PS3 and PC, respectively. (The game also topped the three, individual platform charts.)"

LINK: UK Sales: Week ending March 6

BURSTIIIFIRE

[QUOTE="JangoWuzHere"]

Pc games are handled digitally now. I'm actually surprised that PC managed to reach 16% in total retail sales for UK.

xsubtownerx

[QUOTE="xsubtownerx"][QUOTE="JangoWuzHere"]

Pc games are handled digitally now. I'm actually surprised that PC managed to reach 16% in total retail sales for UK.

dawgrejectx

so which one is bigger on PC

Physical copies or DD?

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[QUOTE="xsubtownerx"] You make it sound like all PC gamers go DD. Again, can we see some sale charts?AdmiralBison

so which one is bigger on PC

Physical copies or DD?

[QUOTE="solidgamer"]I thought the PC percentage in the Uk Would be higher but then again it does not surprise me.Killfox

[QUOTE="Killfox"][QUOTE="solidgamer"]I thought the PC percentage in the Uk Would be higher but then again it does not surprise me.seabiscuit8686

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[QUOTE="dawgrejectx"] yea you have no idea, PC may soon become DD only i am old fashioned i like the case but there is like no insentive PC packaging(minus Blizzard) is getting really cheep, my BFbc2 was in an old school dvd case and it doesn't look to sturdy and the book is like 4 pagesm and guess what i payed $5 more cause of tax, so if you go thru DD you save tax. and after 10 games you thats 50$ saved for an 11 game. so yes majority of PC users direct download thru steam or d2d or directly from the company(like EA) also no worries about searching for your game in an aisle or send for it, all the games are easly found and d/l.

dawgrejectx

so which one is bigger on PC

Physical copies or DD?

so if the majority of sales comes from dd, why don't they show the sales figures for those then?

Like on Steam or something.

For a country a sconsole centric as UK 16% for PC version (and retail numbers alone) is pretty nice. By comparision: in case of Modern Warfare 2 only 3% of all units sold in UK were PC versions

Yet we still get no 32 player battles. :(enterawesome

32 players are too much honestly it would be a mess like TF2 on pc. also its good to see the best version selling the most :) and lol @ hermits typical DD excuse "buh buh tehy dawnt countz DD, if tehy didz it wudz be muchz moe den cawnsole zales". you can combine pc DD and retail sales and they would still be less then 360, heck it might even be less then ps3 :lol:

[QUOTE="enterawesome"]Yet we still get no 32 player battles. :(sikanderahmed

32 players are too much honestly it would be a mess like TF2 on pc. also its good to see the best version selling the most :) and lol @ hermits typical DD excuse "buh buh tehy dawnt countz DD, if tehy didz it wudz be muchz moe den cawnsole zales". you can combine pc DD and retail sales and they would still be less then 360, heck it might even be less then ps3 :lol:

Huh? PC version is universally considered the best and it's not the best selling one. And no..BC2 maps are big enough to be able to handle 32 players without any problem.

I do think that currently PC sales are lower, I'm sure PC sales will drop slower than console one, so it's possible PC will eventualy match 360, like it happened with Bioshock (initialy 360 sales slaughtered PC ones, but in the end they both sold about the same)