PC Contributed to 45% of The Witcher 3's Sales from 2015 to 2018

According to the CD Projekt RED's financial report for the fiscal year 2018, the biggest chunk of sales for Witcher 3, came from PC with 44.5% of the total.

[MadLad]

So sad PC gaming has been dying for over 2 decades now /s

[Kornholic]

PC has a user base larger than PS4 and Xbox One combined and still manages to sell less. Sad.

[Vegamyster]

A larger user base because you can put store fronts like Steam on a potato to play games like Counter Strike, it doesn't really mean anything without the exact data for the hardware that's used. It's hardly sad that a open platform is making similar profit for developers as a console, it's a good sign of a healthy market and benefits everyone regardless of platform.

[MadLad]

My mom owns a computer; that neither makes her a gamer, nor dictate she's going to run out and download Witcher 3, you disengenuous knob.

[Kornholic]

I'm talking about Steam users. Man you are stupid.

[MadLad]

You ignorantly choose not to differentiate any ten year old home computer that may have had Steam put on it at one point, and a dedicated gaming machine.

I'm the dull one though. Ha.

[Kornholic]

Steam has over 150 million active users, 90 million active monthly users. PS4 has around 90 million users total and Xbox One has a bit less. Man you are stupid.

[MadLad]

Though every time you post on the subject, people seemingly disagree with you.

Maybe you're just a dense person who can't register the bigger picture.

[Vegamyster]

So what if Steam has 150 million active users? What are the specs for those users? If you look at Valves hardware surveys 12.57% of users have a 1366 x 768 monitor which is a old laptop display, that's just under 20 million of the install base right there. If you combine all the old desktop/laptop GPU's that can't do modern gaming you're probably looking at another 10%-20%, comparing PC to Console install bases is not black and white, there is a ton of variables.

[Kornholic]

It means that PC has a larger active user base than PS4 and Xbox One combined and still managed to sell less than half of the copies of PS4 and Xbox One combined.

[Vegamyster]

It means your turning a complex variable into a black & white answer, there is a random assortments of laptops, home computers compared to dedicated gaming hardware that all use Steam. If you look at the percentage of users running gaming capable hardware, it's lower than the total PS/Xbox hardware sales, the idea that you find it "sad" that people with old cheap laptops ect aren't buying games like The Witcher 3 since they can't even boot it up is silly lol, why do you think system requirements are a thing?

[Fullmetal1337]

I don't know you but I haven't bought a PS game in like 3 years, all the recent games have been on PC for me.

So sad elitist peasants only argue about stuff that doesn't give a shit to them.

[Juras]

2015-2018. Please hare data for first year, i bet PS4 leaded. It's not secret PC games sell better on later date, if gone cheaper, while majority of console sales are just opposite.

[alexkarkar]

no wonder. you need to be a complete moron to play such an rpg game on consoles.

[Stanjara]

Or on a 15 inch laptop with claw mouse grip.

[jeki]

Wow, I would have thought more.