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Originally Posted by PANDAmonium
Wait, where are there numbers of people playing on consoles versus PC? I just want to see where he's bullshitting.
I'm just saying, not everybody strikes it rich just because they make video games. You're not being a big man by pretending that one less rich dude doesn't make you care - especially when you're an independent developer, it's not always a question of developing one game and suddenly becoming Bioware or whatever.
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I'm not pretending I don't care, I really don't care. Cry me a river. I spend plenty of money on gaming and I'm not interested in hearing developers cry about how it's so tough out there.
Where is he basing his sales numbers off of anyhow? NPD retail reports?
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There are NPD numbers, of course, but Lombardi says they don't tell the whole story. "They report on something really specific and people are taking that and saying that's the whole industry. There's nothing wrong, per se, with NPD's retail U.S. report but that's a really specific thing...For example if people looked at the retail sales of games in Germany, a different story would be written. PC sales crush all consoles in Germany with the possible exception of the DS. Maybe sometime [Valve will] release some sort of figure from our side to help broaden that picture and the perspective people have, but Valve is a privately-held company so we don't do reporting or any of those kinds of things."
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I can't remember the last time I bought a game in a store. I bought CoD4 on steam. That doesn't show up in his airtight little assessment.