No Super Streetfighter IV for PC due to piracy

RDM said:
What is the real reason if you think piracy is a convenient excuse?
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I reckon MS or Sony made a deal with em to keep it on consoles and off PC as fighter games sell well i bet on consoles and keeps fighter fans on the consoles and off the pc's.

Thats my guess at least.
 
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It's quite frustrating as a PC gamer, especially as the PC version of SF4 is so good.

I am a bit confused by the responses to this thread though, If the reason isn't piracy then what is it?.
Surely if there is good profit to be made there must be a good reason not to release a PC version...
 
uv said:
what a load of *****.

A quick search for "Street Fighter IV" on a popular usenet site, ordered by times downloaded:

1st: 360 - downloaded 7833 times
2nd: PC - downloaded 5502 times
3rd: 360 - downloaded 3345 times
4th: 360 - downloaded 3345 times
5th: 360 - downloaded 3065 times
6th: PC - downloaded 2185 times

360 total = 14243 = 65% of pirated copies
PC total = 7687 = 35% of pirated copies

Obviously, piracy is the reason this is coming out on 360 but not PC!
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Yeah but you have to mark those figures against the total sold on each platform and then work out a % of sales/piracy. Even with those stats, the PC would have to sell half as many copies as the Xbox version.
 
megalomanic said:
It's quite frustrating as a PC gamer, especially as the PC version of SF4 is so good.

I am a bit confused by the responses to this thread though, If the reason isn't piracy then what is it?.
Surely if there is good profit to be made there must be a good reason not to release a PC version...
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Good post, well put.

It's only ever going to be two things. Poor sales due to lack of interest or poor sales due to piracy.

No one can say the previous title was a bad game, it was heavily played by many for a long time.
 
Gackt said:
Just yet another attack on PC gaming by the console corporations trying to get as much money as they can.
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What console do Capcom manufacture exactly?

Only a couple of months ago Capcom were being heralded as the saviours of PC gaming by many in this subforum, now they're being accused of being in cahoots with console manufacturers :rolleyes:
 
I guess the conspiracy theory could be that they where bought to keep it to consoles, big games sell lots of consoles and the very expensive controllers as well.
 
Smells like a typical BS excuse especially since he ruled out steam so fast. How many people these days don't have or have access to a credit or debit card of some description? And as usual even though its pirated up the wazoo on 360 its only the pc piracy that matters. :rolleyes:
 
glen8 said:
what about console piracy :confused:
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Unauthorised console game duplication has been around in britain (UK) for many many years, it was rampant at car boot sales, some market stalls and even from some bloke at the work place. I personaly never saw many unauthorised pc games. For a guess i'd say console is the largest of unauthorised game duplication.
 
RDM said:
What is the real reason if you think piracy is a convenient excuse?
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Increased profit from overpriced console games? less compatiblity headaches and after-sales support required? I agree it sounds like a convenient excuse to crap on PC gamers, point to piracy and deflect the anger away from themselves.
 
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Street fighter 4 and super have always been cheap on consoles. Super is £15 and £16 in two supermarkets and probably cheaper online
 
i think this is rubbish personally. i guess all that stuff that capcom said in some interview a while back about supporting the growing technology of the pc platform was bs.
 
mmj_uk said:
Increased profit from overpriced console games? less compatiblity headaches and after-sales support required? I agree it sounds like a convenient excuse to crap on PC gamers, point to piracy and deflect the anger away from themselves.
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If that was the case why not just say nothing about it? Plenty of games are released on the consoles without ever seeing the PC with no drama at all. The guy even admited that SFIV sold well on the PC so they seem to be throwing money away while blaming piracy. There doesn't seem to be much in the way of reasoning as to why "they are just using it as an excuse".
 
It is true though anyone can easily download a torrent but not everyone can figure out and flash a 360, so I don't blame them.

The second hand game market is far more harmful than piracy on consoles.
 
Streeteh said:
What console do Capcom manufacture exactly?

Only a couple of months ago Capcom were being heralded as the saviours of PC gaming by many in this subforum, now they're being accused of being in cahoots with console manufacturers :rolleyes:
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And why were they being heralded as such? Because they said they were looking to continue to support the PC platform going forward... and now they have done a u-turn. Comprende?
 
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