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Id: Rage Sales Will Be Split Evenly On Consoles And PC
Id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead predicts that its upcoming game, Rage, will sell one third on PlayStation 3, another third on Xbox 360, and the last bit on PC, in contrast to previous skews toward PC.
In an interview with Eurogamer, Hollenshead describes the change. "I'm not in the sales forecast business, and I don't want to be making projections for the company on the basis of that. But if we're just going to do napkin math, that's as good as any," he says. "Maybe it's 70 percent among the consoles and 30 on the PC, or maybe 75, 25. But we're still talking two-thirds plus of the sales being on PS3 or Xbox 360."
Hollenshead expressed id's console focus straight from the get-go, realizing the changing gaming landscape.
"So, while we're developing Rage on the PC, we forbid anybody from playing it on a keyboard and mouse until we've played it first on a console controller," he says. "We pull the keyboard and mouse out and put in a USB 360 controller, even on the development staff. That's not just the testers."
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