PC Modern Warfare 2 sells less than a tenth of total on Amazon.com

Posted Nov 1st 2009 6:30PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Biz, FPS, Multiplayer, Modern Warfare 2

People have wondered how much of a audience the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 will have compared to the console versions. Now Amazon.com gives us a bit of a clue with their percentages of the all-time sales of the Standard Edition of Infinity Ward's upcoming first person shooter.

As you can see the PC version is currently selling only 8 percent of the Standard Edition's total sales. The Xbox 360 version is by far the most popular port with 61 percent followed by the PS3 version with a mere 31 percent (the results don't take into account sales of the Hardened Edition and Prestige Edition of the game which is not available for PC owners).

Even though the percentage is low for the PC version, Modern Warfare 2 is still expected to sell millions of copies among all three versions. That means the PC port could sell hundreds of thousands of copies which is very high for any game, PC or not.

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Tags: activision, activision-blizzard, amazon, infinity-ward, modern-warfare-2

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Umm... Steam or Mininova is where most people are gonna get it. Posted at 6:59PM on Nov 1st 2009 by Cheesus Crust

have to agree, amazon isnt the big one for PC games, steam, impulse are the way to get PC games, im actually surprised preorders for pc on amazona re even at 8%Posted at 7:12PM on Nov 1st 2009 by Chris

Is this meant to suggest that PC sales are slipping due to their changes? I was going to pass on this game to send a message, but the 20$ coupon on Amazon was hard to pass up. I don't expect to get much out of the multiplayer though.Posted at 12:27AM on Nov 2nd 2009 by Crazy Horse

I know alot of people are getting this on steam, but I'm guessing not a lot more. IW has gone out of their way to be total assholes to PC users.Posted at 11:49PM on Nov 1st 2009 by Sam

Had this game pre-ordered, but cancelled
after the news of no dedicated servers.

Feel bad because single player is probably
awsome, but they just knifed PC-players
in the back with their decision of WI.net.

Also no replies of devs to anything on their
Infinity Ward forums.

Sad.. and too bad.

Cheers.Posted at 3:58AM on Nov 2nd 2009 by Jelle

Agreed with Jelle. With their announcement of no dedicated servers coming a few weeks before launch, they don't deserve my moneyPosted at 12:32PM on Nov 2nd 2009 by Solice

I also canceled my pre-order because of the dedicated server news. If they are planning to kill the pc version just kill it already, put it out of it's misery. Putting out a half assed port doesn't help anybody.Posted at 4:17AM on Nov 6th 2009 by Steve

This will probably go down as 1 of the most hacked pc games of the last 20 years plus all those pirate copies.Posted at 1:43PM on Nov 10th 2009 by Stepz

COD6 SUCKS PC Doesnt have Dedicated Servers, No MOD Support, and single player has a mission (you can opt out) where you play the terrorist killing innocent people. NOT FUN TO ME. SCREW YOU IW... I was so pumped for this on PC but I am NOT PAYING $60 for Utter CRAP... That is one of the main REASONS it isnt selling well for PC and I for one am TICKLED... Posted at 4:05PM on Nov 10th 2009 by rob

1) Steam. Anybody who has even the remotest clue about what they are doing on the PC, gets it on steam, that way they can preload, and get automatic updates, and automatic install. The amazon figures mean nothing. I expect the PC sales combined will top the consoles.
2) I don't care about dedicated servers. It's actually more logical to run it peer to peer. That way as the number of players increases (which it will), the probability of it finding a low ping server increases. So really, it doesn't matter at all. And if it DOES end up not working, they will release a patch and make dedicated servers work.
3) I've never purchased a game on amazon. I always use steam. Who does that anyways? Why would you want to pay for shipping...? I buy books from amazon, not video games.Posted at 10:59AM on Nov 11th 2009 by Logic Bomb

To Logic Bomb. Anyone who has the remotest clue about what they're doing on the PC stays completely away from Steam. Why would you want to run spyware on your computer to play games that don't require it? In this case, MW2 actually forces it, but this hasn't been the norm in the past, nor is by any means the norm for most games. I personally buy my PC games locally. I don't pay for shipping. I do, how-ever, have a hard-copy of every single game I've ever bought, and none of them are Steam-related in any way, shape or form.

As for dedicated servers vs peer to peer. Peer to peer, your connection to a "server" if you want to call it that, is only ever going to be as good as the host's internet upload speed. This means that connecting to someone who's only a few blocks away from you will likely see your ping well past the 100 mark. Meanwhile, dedicated servers use backbone providers like Internap and Savvis, and as such, you can connect to a dedicated server from 1000 miles away, and still connect with a ping well under 100. Added to which, the dedicated server does all of the hit-registration calculations, thus making the players more equal. With peer to peer, the host's computer does all of the hit-registration calculations, as his computer is also acting as the server. This gives the host a pretty good edge on anyone connecting to him. Perhaps you should educate yourself on the differences before claiming "to know anything about computers". /sarcasm....since you're likely to miss that part. Posted at 9:11PM on Nov 12th 2009 by Myron