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Cyberpunk 2077 has sold over 18 millions copies as of today

Draugoth

Gold Member
From CD Projekt Red's earnings results


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  • Cyberpunk 2077 has sold over 18 millions copies as of today
  • Witcher 3 has sold over 40 million copies as of today
  • working on multiple unannounced projects
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Game is very stable and playable now. It’s such a shame they had a disastrous development and launch for what could have been one of the biggest games ever.
 

DukeNukem00

Banned
Gamers™ fucking it up for everybody.


Nobody is fucking up, this result is a flop of epic proportions. Their sale goals were order of magnitude more than this. The game sold over 13 million in december 2020, at launch. After a year and a half they only moved 5 more. They were projecting 35 million or so in the first year, or more than that. This was probably the most hyped game ever, remember. The first single player game to pass 1 million players on steam. In the entire history.

These sales are extremely far from what they were expecting
 

SF Kosmo

Al Jazeera Special Reporter
Would have been a lot higher if they had been able to build a game that worked on last gen.

That said, I think the better move would have been to only release the game on hardware that can run it well. Would have cost some sales but been way better for the brand and made their game synonymous with next gen.

In any event I do love the game and I am glad it has made enough money to recoup costs and hopefully merit more expansions and sequels.
 
Hype sells, that's the only explanation.

This game is embarrassingly bad, just poor game design everywhere.
 
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Would have been a lot higher if they had been able to build a game that worked on last gen.

That said, I think the better move would have been to only release the game on hardware that can run it well. Would have cost some sales but been way better for the brand and made their game synonymous with next gen.

In any event I do love the game and I am glad it has made enough money to recoup costs and hopefully merit more expansions and sequels.

Would have been better if they just deleted last gen versions
 

winjer

Gold Member
Not as much as CDPR projected, but considering the launch of the game, this is a very impressive number.
And with CDPR continuing to support the game, tis number is bound to keep growing.
 

DukeNukem00

Banned
Not as much as CDPR projected, but considering the launch of the game, this is a very impressive number.
And with CDPR continuing to support the game, tis number is bound to keep growing.


Its not impressive at all. Dont look at the number in a vacuum, you need context for it. If you have one of the most expensive games ever made and you expect 70 million copies sold by end of 2024; then you launch the game and you end up selling 25 million by 2024, that means you floped so bad that you will have your own chapter in the history books.

Polish analysts estimated the game will sell 7 million in 2021 alone. After the game launched they reduced those sales to 3.6 for 2021 and 5.9 in 2022. The figure today means the game underperformerd even the lowered projections.
 

Roxkis_ii

Member
It's no Hello Games redemption arc, but cyberpunk is a good game. I'm glad I got to play it after they fixed most of the issues so I don't regret my purchase. Just wish they would have added a new game plus, so I can experience the other starts without completely restarting.
 

RAIDEN1

Member
....they should have also mentioned: "A big shout out to all the patches for all their hard-work, if weren't for you, we wouldn't even sold 18k worth of copies, let alone 18 million" !
 

Chronicle

Member
I gotvit after the PS5 patch and it was well worth it. I found itvyo be a great game. I bet the would have sold a lot more if it launched properly. I'm sure they learned their lesson. Unfortunately the gaming community learns the hard way. However, we can't take everything with a grain of salt. There must be some truth in the things gaming companies say and do going forward.

I'm glad I waited for the patch
 
Gamers™ fucking it up for everybody.

Gamers playing amazing games and not letting bs noise get in their way. People who wanted this game to succeed and to be good, even with its missteps, gave it a chance, didn't give up on it. Games can improve and get better. They're not only ever supposed to be their very best in their launch window. That's the most ideal and preferred, but that just isn't the reality.

If I had my way, every single game would be flawless and its very best version of itself at release without exception. We are dealing with human beings, and human beings are imperfect, mistakes happen. Management tries their best to manage this all, but it isn't always a perfect science.
 
1 copy from me. Started playing on the Xbone X, Got a Series S and played a few dozen hours more, Then Got a Sereies X and finished with 90 hours and all cars bought.
Now waiting for any news of expansions.
I'm not ever going to go to bat for the game if anyone talks smack about it. It doesn't deserve my energy to even try to defend. BUT 90 hours spent playing, I got my moneys worth.
 

Varteras

Gold Member
40+million copies of TW3?... Absolutely well deserved!!

WTF are big pubs making endless BR games and not more sprawling WRPGs when games like Skyrim and TW3 sell this well?!?
Money. Witcher 3 released 7 years ago. Even if we assume that the average sale of the game was $40, that means it brought in $1.6 billion over that time. You could probably bump that number to $2 billion or a little over for various additional transactions prior to the game of the year bundles and such.

Fortnite released 5 years ago. It made $3.7 billion in 2019 alone. That means it made twice as much money in one year as Witcher 3 has in 7 years. If you add in the 2018 revenue, it made over $9 billion. In two years.

I can pretty much guarantee you the initial investment in Fortnite was nowhere near the cost of something like Witcher 3. That's why companies are chasing these live service games instead of putting their eggs into Witcher 3 shaped baskets. Because if you land a hit with these kind of games, you can bring in tons of money with typically nowhere near the upfront cost of a big, sprawling WRPG.
 

Hugare

Member
2023 for the expansion??


Releasing an expansion in 2023 for a 2020 game is embarassing

Hearts of stone was released 5 months after The Witcher 3, and Blood and Wine was released 1 year after the original game's launch

They really have to pull off an amazing expansion to justify its release date

I'm really impressed by Witcher 3 number, holly fuck
 
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