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Nirolak · Mar 5, 2015

Courtesy of Ars Technica: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/03/steam-gauge-measuring-the-most-popular-steam-games-of-2014/3/

Thanks to Shantom for catching a lot I missed.

Criteria:

1.) Game released in 2014
2.) "Numbers reported here were measured on February 26, 2015 unless otherwise noted."

Hours played per title and percentage of people who have started the game are at the link.

I plausibly missed some things so please point out if I did.

Sales (Owned Copies):

Dark Souls II: 964,266
Ultra Street Fighter IV: 451,366 (Likely includes Arcade Edition sales)
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance: 444,266
Metal Slug 3: 443,928
Final Fantasy XIII: 327,959
The Evil Within: 250,533
One Way Heroics: 213,342
Valkyria Chronicles: 210,299
Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes: 192,042
Resident Evil 4 HD: 170,403
Final Fantasy XIII-2: 159,922
Vanguard Princess: 135,241
Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends: 131,183
Agarest: Generations of War: 138,622
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky: 107,516
Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae: 105,488
Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution: 100,416
Go! Go! Nippon! ~My First Trip to Japan~- 95,007
Final Fantasy III: 91,964
100% Orange Juice: 87,906
Hatoful Boyfriend: 85,878
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger: 85,540
Pro Evolution Soccer 2015: 83,849
Final Fantasy IV: 75,397
Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition: 64,239
Astebreed: 59,844
The Legend of Korra: 57,139
Ikaruga: 52,406
Metal Slug X: 42,601
NEKOPARA Vol. 1: 39,896

rjc571 · Mar 5, 2015

Are Steam sales numbers and playtime statistics publically available? If not, how did they acquire these numbers?

EDIT NVM, just clicked page one of the article

ThePeoplesBureau · Mar 5, 2015

All those glorious Valkyria Chronicles sales.

GhostTrick · Mar 5, 2015

Great sales overall ! No wonder why Japanese 3rd parties are releasing stuff on Steam more and more.

Nirolak · Mar 5, 2015

rjc571 said:
Are Steam sales numbers and playtime statistics publically available? If not, how did they acquire these numbers?

They went through every profile ID and looked at their games owned.

BassForever · Mar 5, 2015

100k for Trails? Excellent more people need to play it the game is truly fantastic

Lulubop · Mar 5, 2015

That new Dragon Ball game did seemingly very well on PC.

LiK · Mar 5, 2015

not bad.

they excluded all those press accounts right?

Shizuka · Mar 5, 2015

Surprised with Trails and Valkyria.

GhostTrick · Mar 5, 2015

LiK said:
not bad.

they excluded all those press accounts right?

What do you mean ? Accounts of reviewers ?

Nephtes · Mar 5, 2015

Such a high number for Ultra Street Fighter IV. How hard is it to find matches on the PC version?

Visualante2 · Mar 5, 2015

Final Fantasy numbers should be high enough to warrant a port of X and XII.

Holundrian · Mar 5, 2015

Happy about the trails sales maybe this will make further translations beyond SC feasible?

GhostTrick · Mar 5, 2015

Visualante2 said:
Final Fantasy numbers should be high enough to warrant a port of X and XII.

I doubt it will happen. But yeah, good sales overall, but could be better with a FF title people actually wants.

Psycho_Mantis · Mar 5, 2015

Nirolak said:
They went through every profile ID and looked at their games owned.

They don't go through every ID do they? I thought it was just sampling size from what I remember reading.

Mpl90 · Mar 5, 2015

GhostTrick said:
I doubt it will happen. But yeah, good sales overall, but could be better with a FF title people actually wants.

...Like FFXV

Nabs · Mar 5, 2015

LiK said:
not bad.

they excluded all those press accounts right?

Didn't they kill those?

Stone Ocean · Mar 5, 2015

Almost a million Dark Souls 2 copies on Steam alone? Wow

GhostTrick · Mar 5, 2015

Mpl90 said:
...Like FFXV

For exemple

But let's not turn this thread into a port begging one hahaha

And sales would be even better if we didn't had to be worried about horrible ports.
I wouldn't be surprised if FFXIII-2 port suffered from the FF XIII port... not only accounting that it sold twice less, as FFXIII-2 did on other platforms.

Momentary · Mar 5, 2015

Nephtes said:
Such a high number for Ultra Street Fighter IV. How hard is it to find matches on the PC version?

Not hard at all.

GhostTrick · Mar 5, 2015

Psycho_Mantis said:
They don't go through every ID do they? I thought it was just sampling size from what I remember reading.

They don't, but they use a huge sampling size, over millions iirc. Also, a lot of profiles are private. Mine for exemple, and I own a lot of these japanese titles.

LiK · Mar 5, 2015

GhostTrick said:
What do you mean ? Accounts of reviewers ?

yup

Nabs said:
Didn't they kill those?

nope

Dascu · Mar 5, 2015

Those numbers seem really good.

Red Blaster · Mar 5, 2015

was metal slug 3 in a humble bundle or something

also where at ffvii and viii

Inuhanyou · Mar 5, 2015

Mpl90 said:
...Like FFXV

Maybe KH and FF will eventually find their way onto steam. FF15 at the very least i think is probably 99% certain a year maybe after the console versions are out or something, but KH is a wildcard with Disney and the licenses and everything

kswiston · Mar 5, 2015

LiK said:
yup

nope

Number of press accounts is probably well within the statistical margin of error, so I doubt it matters much.

SliceSabre · Mar 5, 2015

Interesting to see how well Agarest: Generations of War considering the kind of game it is. Good either way though since they've brought all three of those games to Steam now.

GhostTrick · Mar 5, 2015

LiK said:
yup

nope

Well... to be fair, I doubt that these account for more than 500 profiles hahaha.

Nabs · Mar 5, 2015

Nephtes said:
Such a high number for Ultra Street Fighter IV. How hard is it to find matches on the PC version?

It's not hard at all, but those numbers are a bit misleading. They changed the name of Arcade Edition to Ultra, so I'm going to guess lots of those are of people who haven't upgraded yet.

Psycho_Mantis · Mar 5, 2015

GhostTrick said:
They don't, but they use a huge sampling size, over millions iirc. Also, a lot of profiles are private. Mine for exemple, and I own a lot of these japanese titles.

Yeah and I remember them saying that the errors were notable. Nevertheless it is nice to see some kind of valid data.

Gintoki · Mar 5, 2015

Red Blaster said:
was metal slug 3 in a humble bundle or something

It was, twice

t26 · Mar 5, 2015

Half Minute Hero 1 and 2 not on the list

BadWolf · Mar 5, 2015

That Metal Slug 3 O_O

dejan · Mar 5, 2015

Nephtes said:
Such a high number for Ultra Street Fighter IV. How hard is it to find matches on the PC version?

I think these are combined numbers for Ultra SF4 and SF4 AE.

Nirolak · Mar 5, 2015

I put in a note about Street Fighter.

t26 said:
Half Minute Hero 1 and 2 not on the list

The first was 2012 to note, so it would be excluded.

MUnited83 · Mar 5, 2015

Psycho_Mantis said:
They don't go through every ID do they? I thought it was just sampling size from what I remember reading.

They go through every public ID.

Miker · Mar 5, 2015

Ikaruga am cry

sixteen-bit · Mar 5, 2015

Good job Metal Slug

GhostTrick · Mar 5, 2015

Miker said:
Ikaruga am cry

60k aint bad for Ikaruga, considering multiple factors.

LaunchpadMcQ · Mar 5, 2015

My takeaway is that these devs should start releasing these games in a more timely fashion for PC. I mean, pretty much all of them launched considerably after their console counterparts. I can only imagine how much better some of them would have done if they released alongside the console versions; although, admittedly, PC gaming might not have been as big when some of these originally launched on consoles (FFXIII, VC).

LiK · Mar 5, 2015

Miker said:
Ikaruga am cry

that's actually very good for an old shmup. a lot of newer shmups don't even get those numbers.

Dascu · Mar 5, 2015

Miker said:
Ikaruga am cry

It should have easily matched its porting costs and, to my knowledge, it hasn't had a lot of sales either.

sixteen-bit · Mar 5, 2015

GhostTrick said:
60k aint bad for Ikaruga, considering multiple factors.

Yeah, for comparison it sold under 20K its debut week on Dreamcast.

djplaeskool · Mar 5, 2015

Miker said:
Ikaruga am cry

GhostTrick said:
60k aint bad for Ikaruga, considering multiple factors.

Not enough frothing demand.

Zia · Mar 5, 2015

Ikaruga: 52,406

This seems like enough to warrant more ports but they've been so quiet. Also...

Pro Evolution Soccer 2015: 83,849

This could be so much higher. If Konami released a ver on par with the console releases and introduced Workshop support it'd be doing NBA 2K numbers.

Edit: Are the Metal Slug ports any good?

Terareflection · Mar 5, 2015

Wow at Metal Slug 3 and Vanguard Princess.

Will 3D Fighter publishers get the point, and the put their stuff on Steam now?

Nyoro SF · Mar 5, 2015

Thanks for the info. Now I wonder what SEGA thinks of VC1 sales in the overall picture of the franchise.

Mauricio_Magus · Mar 5, 2015

The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky: 107,516

more than 100k? nice!

Corpekata · Mar 5, 2015

Ikaruaga has only had like 1 sale so before Steam cut that's like 500 grand for a 13 year old game.

sixteen-bit · Mar 5, 2015

Terareflection said:
Wow at Metal Slug 3 and Vanguard Princess.

Will 3D Fighter publishers get the point, and the put their stuff on Steam now?

DOA5 is coming to steam

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