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Witcher 3 sold 4 million copies in the first 2 weeks!
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Turin Turambar
Member
Do you really think it sold better on XboxOne than on PS4?
There are more PS4 than Xboxs out there. And especially in Europe where the series is stronger.
The ps4 version is selling better than the Xbox in both amazon.com and amazon.co.uk.
I would guess
PC - 1.1m
Xbox One - 1.1m
PS4 - 1.8m
QuickSilverD
Member
I think is unlikely the XONE version sold better than the PS4 one.
My take:
PS4 - 1.8m
PC - 1.2m
XONE - 1.0m
It's not only unlikely, it's completely out of the question.
It sold 2:1 PS4 vs. XB1 in UK in first week sales, the second strongest Xbox market.
Ivory Samoan
Gold Member
This makes me so happy... the best RPG since Mass Effect, hell... it's as good as Mass Effect (which is massive coming from me, Commander Shepard's #1 fan).
Good on you CDPR, you deserve all the sales.
Thank you for this game, it's just...amazing.
Good on you CDPR, you deserve all the sales.
Thank you for this game, it's just...amazing.
paragonpro
Banned
Congrats, but don't kick me out of my game again for an update.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Steamspy says 585k steam owners, and there has to be a ton on GOG with the Nvidia codes floating around. Like GTAV, the only way to get a Steam copy is to buy it directly on Steam. All 3rd party sites offering deals had GOG keys.
What can CDPR do? That's an Xbox One "feature".
NeuAscension
Banned
Jumped 20% after the story, up to around $24.50/share
Haunted
Member
All physical copies are only activatiable on GoG as well
So at least half of all PC copies will be on GoG
Wow. $15m budget? Benefits of developing in their part of the world, I guess.
Yeah, that sounds much more realistic than $15 million quoted before. It could have been a targeted budget, but certainly way too low for the scope. Still quite impressive though, no doubt about it (comparable games are usually made with at least twice the budget).
EDIT: Yeah, a quick googling reveals that the 15 million was the initial estimated budget in 2013, which obviously didn't count for all the delays.
See above, the actual end production costs were near 32 million dollars.
Well deserved, I've been putting so many hours and I'm not even close to the end game... so amazing. I'm glad they were able to push through and sell mainstream numbers even though Witcher 2 was a great game as well.
Did the exact same thing for me where it concerns Skyrim but especially DAI.
Did the exact same thing for me where it concerns Skyrim but especially DAI.
I guess it takes a well designed game for people to perceive poorly designed ones.
IcyBlueStrawberry
Member
Yeah, that definitely happened.
I don't dislike DA, but the quests and characters are terrible when compared to The Witcher.
THe_DeiCiDe
Member
This. Playing DA:I is like some type of punishment after playing Witcher 3. Bio ware really need to step their game up imo.
Witcher 1's E3 "booth":
Technically that was Bioware's booth...
QFT for me here. Witcher 3's writing, characters and quests just take such a huge dump on DAI it's really stunning
Even worse when I look back and see all the praise and GOTY awards DAI got.
If Witcher 3 doesn't get the same amount of accolades or more, then something is wrong.
You could make that case for a lot of games going back retroactively.
SONIC
Competition is way more fierce this year than last. If Witcher came out last year, it would have clobbered all games last year. This year it's facing a few heavyweights, most of which haven't come out yet.
StrongBlackVine
Banned
There is no way the Xbox One version sold more than PS4. The UK split was hugely in favor of PS4.
The problem with comparing against those games is that the Witcher 3 does so much more other things that those games do not do.
Dragon1893
Member
I'm so happy with this news, I hope it has some serious legs.
Jibbajabbawockky
Member
Truer words have not been spoken.
And I wasn't totally crazy about DAI after I finished it but thought it was generally pretty good. But playing The Witcher and CDPR just makes DAI look like a joke in terms of how they implement actual quests in the world and have a semi-open world that actually feels like a living, breathing world, not some MMO level.
To some extent comparing something like Witcher and DA will differ on fundamental levels (controlling only Geralt makes for an easier open world as opposed to a party of characters) but CDPR showed how to have story matter in an open world game.
zkorejo
Member
The only heavyweight i can see giving TW3 a fight IMO is MGS V. Even then.... It will be tough to beat TW3.
The game looks amazing, feels amazing, sounds amazing, has a great story with actual decision making and pretty big consequences to those decisions. The game is HUGE with tons of content...... and the best part is, it never feels like its way too much, the game makes the player want to explore and do everything instead of it being an annoyance.
In short... I dont think there will be a game this year as good as TW3. Hell.. I dont think there will be a RPG as good as TW3 in a long time.
Well it's largely due to the massive increase in scope and production value. Naturally a Witcher 3 was possible just on PC, but it wouldn't have been close in value to what they were able to produce with expected revenue of the consoles.
KillerSloth
Banned
Joke post? Split in the uk was heavily in favor of ps4 so it'd worse worldwide.
BaraSailey
Member
Amazing numbers, and well deserved! The game's incredible, congrats to CDPR 
CarbonFire
Member
I bet Mike Pondsmith is pretty happy right now he hitched his wagon to CDPR.
Let's hope they can take all of this success and turn it into the Cyberpunk game of forever we've always wanted.
Let's hope they can take all of this success and turn it into the Cyberpunk game of forever we've always wanted.
They don't get anywhere near $60 per copy sold though.
