Yeah, that's exactly what I meant. I think TW3 still has yet to hit 25% and 33% in Steam sales, and it's even still selling at full price, so I think it will certainly hit > 1 million before deep discounts.
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SteamSpy Sales Results for August 2015
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Robert at Zeboyd Games
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Race the Sun was available for free briefly.
Abilidebob
Member
Usually around 3AM GMT but it may vary a bit
PandaPedinte
Member
Ouch. But not unexpected, while the game is decent, there wasn't any hype for it.
Turin Turambar
Member
Well, it would be "easy" if Valve would release straight raw data. But they don't do that.
Steamspy is based on the idea of polling millions of user accounts, and suppose they represent the totality of Steam users. The author knows this method doesn't give really accurate numbers with a single entry point, so he prefers to wait and average numbers from several days.
This is the important part, I think. Notice how the top 15 only represents a small part of the total games, less than 10%. I think it's the other way around with the console market, where the top titles (their top 15) is a much bigger % of the total. It's a hit driven market.
That's why pc games seem to sell much less than the console equivalents. It's a less homogeneous market.
Q
Queen of Hunting
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Do theaw include gmg keys n stuff tho ? If they dont the. I expect its more due too the discount
it's not too bad when you consider that it was competing with MGS PP
based on ownership, so yes, it includes retail copies too.
Tizoc
Member
If I may add, One Piece PW3 sold over 20,000 copies on Steam-
http://steamspy.com/app/331600
Owners: 26,952 ± 4,244
http://steamspy.com/app/331600
Owners: 26,952 ± 4,244
Bonfires Down
Member
That seems surprisingly low considering peak players were around 15 000.
so basically Evoland 2 and Shoppe keep are out of the top, Mad Max and One Piece are in, while Grandia is dead last, at least it's still in top 15.
It's not accurate numbers at all. 3 days are needed for accurate data. It likely already broke 100k, easily.
There are 3 days already, the game was released on 31 of August
Data didn't show up until yesterday though.
I guarantee you the actual sales are much higher than 36,599, especially with 28,112 as the concurrent player peak.
40K-50K then? That's what I thought sales are, we'll see soon enough
More than that. If it takes three days to get accurate data, then I assume 1 day is data from 1/3 of steam users. I think it'd be safe to assume that it's already over 100k sales.
I doubt that, not when everybody and they grandma bought and are playing MGS, well, maybe not everybody but it surely looks like it.
But if it did ~100K, then it's great, isn't it?
It's weird that MGSV is "only" at 280k owners when peak current players are 70k. Not to mention it being Steam top seller for a couple of weeks now. Maybe Steamspy needs more time to collect alll the data? Because 280k sounds sort of underwhelming.
I think you're overstimating the number of people that ignored Mad Max in favor of MGSV.
I think if you look at that we only have data for 1 day, which is probably 1/3 of steam accounts, and then look at the difference of the number of reviews and concurrent users between MGSV and Mad Max, I think it's easy to extrapolate that Mad Max sales are at >100k. Couple that with the very agressive pricing it's getting and wonderful word of mouth, I wouldn't be surprised if it sells around half of what MGSV sells, at least in the first couple of weeks.
36K for Mad Max is not accurate at all. It's not even a full day of data - it's like several hours when they've remembered to switch the game's state
Wait three full days please. The first one doesn't count here and I will delete it when I get better info
Yep
. Like I said, 36k was impossible given the relative data we have. No way this game would bomb that hard Yeap! As soon as there's some numbers available people automatically assume that's it.
Steam doesnt work like AAA retail either. You have to wait several months to get the full scope on a titles sales. Even for big releases.
Randomizer123454444
Member
A very nice idea for a thread! Thank you for posting the statistics.
What I noticed most was that games that were released in August did not dominate the "most ownership changed" -list. It does reinforce the idea that PC gaming market is a long-term game. For example, Skyrim was released almost 4 years ago and it's still in top 10. People can buy the games several steam sales (read: many years) after the release.
What I noticed most was that games that were released in August did not dominate the "most ownership changed" -list. It does reinforce the idea that PC gaming market is a long-term game. For example, Skyrim was released almost 4 years ago and it's still in top 10. People can buy the games several steam sales (read: many years) after the release.
Evoland is out, and I've added OP3 (with a note on the pricing mistake)
Not sure why you'd want to add Mad Max, it was released literally on the last day of August. Will be featured in the September's thread.
I've found another game released in August that had some sales in July, Shoppe is out as well.
Well count me as one who would have bought Grandia 2 but reports of launch bugs kept me away for now. Once I hear most have been resolved I'll pick it up.
As for CS:GO I've long since given up trying to understand it's numbers. Even if it's "hackers and smurfs" it's still sales.
As for CS:GO I've long since given up trying to understand it's numbers. Even if it's "hackers and smurfs" it's still sales.
I don't think those MGS numbers are final either.
It seems I was overestimating those numbers, but it was hard not to, when everywhere I look is MGS talk and no Mad Max talk.
It seems I was overestimating those numbers, but it was hard not to, when everywhere I look is MGS talk and no Mad Max talk.
Turin Turambar
Member
if you want accurate data, I think you have to wait a full week, as there are people who only game on weekends, so until then they don't turn on the computer and open up Steam.
Turin Turambar
Member
The game will end with close to 400K units. But that's already a good amount. Most AAA games don't sell millions on Steam.
And remember MGS isn't exactly a known franchise for pc gamers.
They do, just not at launch.
Steam is not as front-loaded sale-wise as consoles are.
Turin Turambar
Member
Of course, I was talking of full priced products.
Both Metal Gear Rising and Ground Zeroes are now past 400k on Steam. I expect Metal Gear Solid V to sell around 500k at full price or close to full price (discounts of 25% or less). I'm sure that more than justifies the PC port.
Felix Lighter
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Now that it has been established as a quality port and a lot of attention is on the game, I expect it to continue to sell well over the coming weeks.
Also, let's not forget NVIDIA codes for the game.
Not sure how well 960/970/980 are selling, but surely higher than 0 copies.
Also, let's not forget NVIDIA codes for the game.
Not sure how well 960/970/980 are selling, but surely higher than 0 copies.
Those are activated on steam and included in the numbers
Yeah, exactly.
And as such can't be counted as selling at full price (not sure how much money NVIDIA pays per each key, but sure as hell not 59.99)
Given the relatively small size of the enthusiast PC market (the type of people who are paying $300+ on a GPU), and the limited nature of these deals, I wonder how many keys NVIDIA will even give out.
This might be similar to those cases where people are saying "Don't forget about Kickstarter backers!" when those "sales" count for 10-15% of the total, and don't really affect things a whole lot.
alexandros
Banned
The Summer Sale numbers were equally ridiculous, almost 110 million copies in two weeks.
And thats just Steam, add GOG, Desura, Origin, UPlay and all non-publisher games and this number will probably increase at least by 50%.