No need to respond to the comment as if I wrote it yesterday, that was the best prediction I could make at the time with the given information. Even then, I still think that this game will be able to reach 400,000. I think that a few games that we thought would do well, but didn't, may have caused several people to start under-estimating the PC market. Over a period of time after its release, this game should be able to edge to 400,000 copies or more worldwide.
When this game is finally released, the PC market will be healthier than it is now and the requirements to run this game won't cause a dent in its sales. I know many people who picked up Bioshock for the Xbox360 instead of the PC because they are waiting a year or so for prices to drop on PC hardware. I see this game being released in about a year or so, from that I expect it to sell well based on more people having transitioned over to Vista (assuming this is Vista-only) and hardware prices will have dropped sufficiently to warrant more people buying PCs that can play this game.
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No need to respond to the comment as if I wrote it yesterday, that was the best prediction I could make at the time with the given information. Even then, I still think that this game will be able to reach 400,000. I think that a few games that we thought would do well, but didn't, may have caused several people to start under-estimating the PC market. Over a period of time after its release, this game should be able to edge to 400,000 copies or more worldwide.
When this game is finally released, the PC market will be healthier than it is now and the requirements to run this game won't cause a dent in its sales. I know many people who picked up Bioshock for the Xbox360 instead of the PC because they are waiting a year or so for prices to drop on PC hardware. I see this game being released in about a year or so, from that I expect it to sell well based on more people having transitioned over to Vista (assuming this is Vista-only) and hardware prices will have dropped sufficiently to warrant more people buying PCs that can play this game.