dancrane212
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The Polygon story for Alan Wake 2 was recently updated to reflect the actual sales of Alan Wake rather than the 4.5 million that was previously used in the article (the franchise total we got a couple weeks ago). The story now mentions Alan Wake selling 3.2 million copies.
As there was a decent amount of discussion around the breakdown of Alan Wake's sales in the previous thread I thought folk may be interested in what this number gives us once combined with the data from steamspy.
Alan Wake 3.2 million
Steamspy: 1,577,045 ± 32,606
Which puts 360 around 1.6 million sold.
While steamspy does not track the DRM free copies from sites like GOG we can *infer that the sales breakdown between the 360 and PC is pretty close to 50/50 with PC most likely in the lead with those DRM free copies. Surprised to see the console game sell ~1.6 million though, I suppose it was bundled with a console for a decent amount of time which definitely helped it.
*Added clarification on the ~1.6 million on 360.
American Nightmare 1.3 million
Steamspy: 1,091,227 ± 27,151
Which puts 360 around 180,000 sold.
If 3.2 million of the 4.5 million was for Alan Wake than American Nightmare should be around 1.3 million with the data showing that the grand majority of those sales came from the PC. Looking back to Gamasutra's XBLA sales analysis for the month of AM's launch it certainly lines up with the steamspy data even if the leaderboard tracking was limited as the sales image states.
While the game was featured on a few XBLA sales I can't see those making any huge headway that would dispute the ~180000 copies sold the steamspy data would put the game at on 360. XBLA wasn't really lighting up the charts in 2012 if I'm remembering right.
Steamspy really is the greatest, thanks galyonkin!
*EDIT*
DocSeuss went and dug up the humble bundle data if folk wanted to see it.
As there was a decent amount of discussion around the breakdown of Alan Wake's sales in the previous thread I thought folk may be interested in what this number gives us once combined with the data from steamspy.
Alan Wake 3.2 million
Steamspy: 1,577,045 ± 32,606
Which puts 360 around 1.6 million sold.
While steamspy does not track the DRM free copies from sites like GOG we can *infer that the sales breakdown between the 360 and PC is pretty close to 50/50 with PC most likely in the lead with those DRM free copies. Surprised to see the console game sell ~1.6 million though, I suppose it was bundled with a console for a decent amount of time which definitely helped it.
*Added clarification on the ~1.6 million on 360.
Sure, no way to track those numbers so I had to simply note it and guess that Steam made up the majority of the PC sales. There was an unconfirmed report from before the PC release (found it) of Alan Wake that the 360 version was close to 1.5 million "sold". Doesn't confirm my numbers but I felt it was close enough that I could be pretty confident of my results. The report did go on to mention that 900,000 of those sales were from the holiday bundle that the game was included in.
American Nightmare 1.3 million
Steamspy: 1,091,227 ± 27,151
Which puts 360 around 180,000 sold.
If 3.2 million of the 4.5 million was for Alan Wake than American Nightmare should be around 1.3 million with the data showing that the grand majority of those sales came from the PC. Looking back to Gamasutra's XBLA sales analysis for the month of AM's launch it certainly lines up with the steamspy data even if the leaderboard tracking was limited as the sales image states.
While the game was featured on a few XBLA sales I can't see those making any huge headway that would dispute the ~180000 copies sold the steamspy data would put the game at on 360. XBLA wasn't really lighting up the charts in 2012 if I'm remembering right.
Steamspy really is the greatest, thanks galyonkin!
*EDIT*
DocSeuss went and dug up the humble bundle data if folk wanted to see it.
That was the entire bundle, both Alan Wake and American Nightmare. There were only 286k (just looked it up) copies sold of the bundle for the average price of $2.26.