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Witcher 3 sold 4 million copies in the first 2 weeks!

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Turin Turambar

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Canis lupus said:
Doesn't steamspy track steam keys from other places as well?
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As other people have indicated already in the thread, in Witcher 3 case, there aren't "other places" contributing to Steam this time. As the "other places" only had GoG keys, supplied by the dev. Which are a sister company of GoG, so not surprising.
 
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DTurkin

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Good, if any company deserved success then its this one.

Hopefully this will encourage other companies to make more high class RPGs.
 
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Derp

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WorriedCitizen said:
That's really awesome. Hopefully EA and Ubi are taking notes.
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Lol what for? Rogue and Unity combined sold over 10 million by the end of Q3 2014. Business is about making money, not necessarily good products. If anything CDPR took a few notes from Ubi on how to show off a game that'll never exist (in terms of visuals) and let the hype market the game for them. The difference though is that CDPR produced a masterpiece... :p

Well deserved CDPR. Can't fucking wait for Cyberpunk 2077.
 
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King_Moc

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Sijil said:
PC retail must be popular in Europe I guess, hope Witcher 3 enjoyed the same success, I guess Witcher 3 PC retail in Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe are reasonably priced?
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The retail version of witcher 2 was cheaper than digital, has no drm and came with physical extras. It was a complete no brainer to buy it over the digital one.
 
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wazoo

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Hayvic said:
With only 570K sales on steam we're looking at 25% of sales on PC at best. And this is from a PC friendly, pc gamer darling developer that produced a game that is superior to the console version on all counts. Safe to say the PC renaissance is over.
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This is still full price. Wait for the steam sales and the sales will climb.

4 million is great because the price is high, but for the long term, PC sales will go for a long time (even if the margins will be lower).
 
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noshten

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derExperte said:
And going by people I know a surprising amount of them bought the game for/on GOG. Usually I'd say the vast majority of sales happen on Steam but here I'm not so sure.
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Exactly, if you want to support the Witcher and CD Projekt Red you buy it on their platform and ensure no 3rd parties like Valve/Sony/Microsoft are getting a piece of the pie.

It's the main reason I've bought the W2 twice.


Denton said:
Wow, what an ignorantly moronic post

Unless my sarcasmdar is off
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Don't mind him obvious troll is obvious
 
Denton

Denton

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Hayvic said:
With only 570K sales on steam we're looking at 25% of sales on PC at best. And this is from a PC friendly, pc gamer darling developer that produced a game that is superior to the console version on all counts. Safe to say the PC renaissance is over.
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Wow, what an ignorantly moronic post

Unless my sarcasmdar is off
 
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EatChildren

Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Real talk though I'm gonna need a TeamTriss/TeamYen percentage breakdown of that 4 million.
 
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jett

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TW3 deserves all the monies.

Nirolak said:
In what sense? They already have an 800 person RPG studio that went all in on open worlds after Skyrim sold over 20 million copies.
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Well Bioware definitely should be influenced by how CDPR handles decisions. Their good/evil binary thing should be done with. I haven't played Inquisition though.
 
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Sijil

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Hayvic said:
With only 570K sales on steam we're looking at 25% of sales on PC at best. And this is from a PC friendly, pc gamer darling developer that produced a game that is superior to the console version on all counts. Safe to say the PC renaissance is over.
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Interfectum

Interfectum

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Nirolak said:
I'm kind of surprised we haven't seen overt signs of them whipping up an f2p version yet.
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Yeah I'd love to see a fully fleshed out stand alone version with multi. A good way for CDPR to break into mobile as well... unlike that Witcher Arena game. =/


EatChildren said:
Real talk though I'm gonna need a TeamTriss/TeamYen percentage breakdown of that 4 million.
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Gotta go with Triss. She's been with me since the first Witcher.
 
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EatChildren

Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Nirolak said:
I'm kind of surprised we haven't seen overt signs of them whipping up an f2p version yet.
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The game hasn't been out that long. I'm guessing they'll work on getting the free DLC out alongside info on the first expansion then hit with a PC + mobile F2P Gwent.
 
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Kolx

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Well deserved. When a developer make a good game they deserve a good sales. Hope this can help them make cyberpunk 2077 a better game.
 
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Raist

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Denton said:
PC sales are above million,must be. Retail is still huge in Europe, russia etc.
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That's vastly overstated. If you look up figures for the share of PC vs Console SW (including both retail and digital) markets in Europe, there's quite a big gap.

Examples:
PC 13% (2% retail, 11% digital) vs Consoles 40% (31% retail, 9% digital) in France (2014).

Even in Germany where PC gaming is higher than anywhere else in Europe, it's almost a 3:1 ratio.

If you follow the PAL charts, in the UK you'll see a big hitter on PC chart fairly high every now and then, but just vanish very quickly.
Most recent one: The Witcher 3 weekly rankings since release:
PS4: 1 - 1 - 1
XB1: 2 - 2 - 2
PC: 3rd on first week, and then gone from the top 40.
Splits on first week were 63 (PS4) - 32 (XB1) - 5 (PC)
 
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Sijil

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Nirolak said:
I'm kind of surprised we haven't seen overt signs of them whipping up an f2p version yet.
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I'd take the real thing over an f2p digital version, physical cards and all. Too bad they only made 2 decks just for the X1 collectors edition.

kharak said:
And:
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I had to import the whole thing myself, set me back 50$ from Amazon and another 50$ in shipping and customs fees. Well worth tho, even if Geralt's bust had its nose ruined like the Sphinx.
 
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publicpwnerer

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Thoroughly deserved. I picked up the game on XBO, and I was very grateful with how generous the standard physical edition was.

My first playthrough was 130+ hours, with probably 10-15 of those being AFK. After finishing it, I immediately bought it on PC (Which I should've done first...but I think it was the free physical content that prompted me to buy it twice).

One of the finest RPG's / games ever created.
 
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ANDS

King of Gaslighting
Haven't played the game in a week and not even close to finishing. I'll congratulate them when they get those quality of live fixes in.
 
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Mister Megative

Banned
Damn.

DAMN.

That's a hell of a number for two weeks. Anything we can compare it to? Also, CDPR's stock skyrocketed the moment they announced sales. Good for them, amazing game.
 
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Barzul

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Still need to beat it, but I've sunk over 70 hours in it. Very few games keep me that engrossed. Good work from the team.
 
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Dmonzy

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I really hope other companies take note of Witcher 3's success. It and Bloodborne are two great examples of quality games amidst the sea of underdeveloped games released this gen.
 
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Mr Git

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Well deserved, the game is brilliant. Well over a hundred hours in and nowhere near the finish. Spend most my time playing Gwent these days. I noticed one of the free DLCs was a alt costume for Yennifer. I'm kinda hoping they add an alt voice for Dandelion.
 
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misho8723

Banned
Raist said:
That's vastly overstated. If you look up figures for the share of PC vs Console SW (including both retail and digital) markets in Europe, there's quite a big gap.

Examples:
PC 13% (2% retail, 11% digital) vs Consoles 40% (31% retail, 9% digital) in France (2014).

Even in Germany where PC gaming is higher than anywhere else in Europe, it's almost a 3:1 ratio.

If you follow the PAL charts, in the UK you'll see a big hitter on PC chart fairly high every now and then, but just vanish very quickly.
Most recent one: The Witcher 3 weekly rankings since release:
PS4: 1 - 1 - 1
XB1: 2 - 2 - 2
PC: 3rd on first week, and then gone from the top 40.
Splits on first week were 63 (PS4) - 32 (XB1) - 5 (PC)
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Yeah, but the Steam version already had after 2 week about 540 000 copies sold.. and many retail copies of the PC version of W3 were sold in Europe and I think that about 400 000 copies were sold of the GOG version.. so atleast 1 mil. PC copies sold is a pretty good guess
 
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Raist

Banned
misho8723 said:
Yeah, but the Steam version already had after 2 week about 540 000 copies sold.. and many retail copies of the PC version of W3 were sold in Europe and I think that about 400 000 copies were sold of the GOG version.. so atleast 1 mil. PC copies sold is a pretty good guess
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I replied to the "retail is still huge in Europe/Russia" comment.
 
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