>1.5 million sales on PS4 >400k sales on PC Why do they

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>>382953721
This game sold better than P5 what the fuck?

>>382953721
>Why do they even port games to PC?
are you retarded?
1.5 million means they sold 4 times as much as the pc.
What that means close to one fifth of the sales were on PC.

Why would they want to lose 1/5 of their sales?

>>382954190
Because OP is an underage retard who has no idea about business.

Nier:A isn't really a good case for this, the game came to PS4 first, then PC later. Anyone who really wanted to play the game without spoilers bought it on console. Besides, 400k sales for a port is nothing to shake a stick at.

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It's so people don't have to fight about exclusives and threads about the game can instead just be about the game

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>>382953721
>Why do they even port games to PC? They should stop.
If they don't, I pull the trigger.

>>382953721
400,000 on PC is probably equal to about 600,000 on PS4.

So they made a lot more money for "porting" a game to PC when it was developed on a PC in the first place.

>>382953721
PC sales are only just beginning. When the game gets some Definitive Edition on sale for $10, many times more people will buy it.

And then if they release the next game in the series on the PC as well, a ton of people will buy it on release for full price.

>>382953721
Those 400k sales made Squenix between 16 and 24 million dollars depending on how many copies were sold on services like Steam that take a cut.
Are you suggesting that it is in their interests to not make that money?

>I can assure you
No, you can't.

>>382953721
The game would have sold more on PC if the port wasn't fucking garbage.

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>>382953721
>Why do they even port games to PC?
So I can have my 2B background with my 2B avatar and upload 2B pictures as artwork to show off how fukken weeb I am lol

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>>382953721
>most of the sales of the game came from the japanese market
>nobody plays PC vidya in japan

common sense OP you poorfag cuck

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>>382953721
>I can assure you if Neir was built from the ground up for the PS4 only it would have guaranteed to be optimized better

Because that totally worked for Bloodborne, The Order 1886, Knack, etc. Who are you trying to fool?

>>382954190
This pretty much, why leave a market and therefore gain more money with it just because some retards feel insecure about their consoles.

HUR DURR why would they even want 24 million dollars for minimal effort! They sholdn;t even bother!!!

kill yourself retard

>>382953721
>why do video game devs like money?

>>382953721
>Why make $114 millions when we make $90 millions?

And that's why /v/ will never be successful at business. Or life.

>>382953721
>I can assure you if Neir was built from the ground up for the PS4 only it would have guaranteed to be optimized better.
It still would have played like wet ass, though. And it still would have sold entirely on wet ass

The game was unoptimized as fuck but only the PC audience cares.

Uhh, the 1.5 million figure is for PC+PS4.
So it's closer to 1.1 million on PS4, 400k on PC.

>>382953721
1.5 million includes PC sales retard

>>382954645
My PC is a toaster and ran Automata fine (only crashed a couple times).
Your OS is just bloated with shit.

>>382954976
>>382955428
>24 million dollars
How'd you calculate that?

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>tfw download the fan fix and run the game at 4K 60fps while consolebronies play in upscaled 900p 24fps
Also it's good that PCbros are too smart to give these japanese jew hacks their money, they don't deserve it.

>>382957290
400k Steam owners (eh) * $60

>>382953721
would have sold more at the start if not for the crashes on certain gpus

>make a bad port that needs to be fixed through mods
>wonder why it sells like shit

>>382957481
Doesn't Valve take some of the cut for hosting the game on their client? And steam is the only platform that sells Automata on PC?

>>382953721
PC games have longer sale period. Eventually NieR Automata will be off shelves, but it'll never be off steam.

>>382953979

Good.

>>382953721
>Why do they even port games to PC? They should stop.

They do it as punishment for the big 3 not bribing them to keep it exclusive.

>>382958246
>>Doesn't Valve take some of the cut for hosting the game on their client?
Yes, that's why we're rounding sales around the 400k mark instead of the current 478k
>Is steam is the only platform that sells Automata on PC?
Yes.

I don't understand why Shitheem is still used by publishers. 30% cut per sold game is fucking insane.

After the summer sale it's already eclipsed 500k easily

>>382954645
lel

>>382958246
>Doesn't Valve take some of the cut
so does gamespot and other retailers

>>382958558
still far less than the cost of selling phisical media over regular stores.

>>382958558
because almost everybody who plays on pc has steam
however, many companies like ea and ubisoft have their own clients

>>382953979
Believe it or not, most people don't want to play an animated version of Microsoft Excel.

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>>382958380
>digital sales don't exist on consoles
this is your typical retard steam toddler

>>382953721
funny because they still made more money from the pc version

>I can assure you if Neir was built from the ground up for the PS4 only it would have guaranteed to be optimized better. Sad.
and yet it runs perfectly on pc lmao

c u c k

square makes much more from the PC than the ps4 sales
PC just has the steam cut of the sale, where ps4 has the distribution costs, the retailer cut, sony's cut

Games are ported by small teams and it's literally pure profit.

>>382958558
Do you think brick and mortar retailers that sell console games work as a fucking charity or something?

You get more money on PC than anywhere else

But it's 1.5 including PC

Why am I replying to this bait

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>>382959537
Welcome to the age of clickbait. Thanks to SJW Liberals and breitfart

>>382953721
Nice bait. The game has 1.5million sales total with 500k of them being on PC.

>>382956768
God fucking dammit fuck you for Spoiling 2B death faggot

>>382954324
Plus I've heard that the port has some issues that make it unplayable for some.

>>382958558
Two reasons
>Physical retailers take an even larger cut including platform royalties
>Creating your own client would require you to have servers to host any content you want to sell digitally so people can actually download it
Steam provides the servers, you provide the game.
30% cut is preferable to investing millions of dollars in hardware so you can host your own digital distribution platform.

>>382954190
To boost console sales and stop pirating.

>>382961783
Boosting console sales is not enough of a benefit to justify having less sales overall by choice.

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>>382953721
That's like asking why people make Ferrari if it sells less. There is always a premium version needed, instead of being more expensive the entry barrier is hardware though.

>>382953979
Not everyone is a lonely virigin weeb faggot