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Does anyone know what kind of sales revenue this game has generated? I'm not a gamer but this is the only game I've heard off recently that has not only taken

Does anyone know what kind of sales revenue this game has generated? I'm not a gamer but this is the only game I've heard off recently that has not only taken over my news feeds, hn, reddit, youtube and it was also on TV last night. I haven't seen so much media coverage (good or bad) for a game like this before personally. Is all this bad publicity actually working out for them eventually? I know they are apologizng and everything but at the end of the day it's just a business and so is synonymous with sales.. when the dust settles was it a winner or a loser?

Hamuko 6y ago
Revenue is kinda hard to estimate at this point when CD Projekt, Sony and Microsoft have opened up pretty generous refund policies for the game and with Sony stopping the digital sales entirely. CD Projekt said in an investor call that they would probably not disclose how much they lost in refunds.
- cromka 6y ago
  I listened to it and ai clearly remember this second or third question, which they answered to by saying they couldn't just tell yet, because it was too early – they only had begun issuing refunds a few days before the call and didn't actually see the numbers. This also isn't something they can withhold as a publicly traded company.
  - Hamuko 6y ago
    >Q7: Thanks for that and regarding refunds – there’s no chance that the market will receive an update on the volume or number of refunds before the sales report around Christmas, yes? >AK: We don’t know yet. Before Christmas we will release sales numbers, but in terms of refunds – we’re not sure if we’ll share this information outside of the company.
joveian 6y ago
"Cyberpunk 2077 has likely already paid for itself. In a memo issued Friday [Dec 11], CD Projekt — the parent company of developer CD Projekt Red — said that its revenue from digital pre-order sales alone exceeds all of Cyberpunk 2077’s production costs and all of the company’s marketing and promotional costs for the game this year." https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/11/22170468/cyberpunk-2077-sales-revenue-cd-projekt https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/11/22170468/cyberpunk-2077-s... CDPR said they had 8 million preorders, and Steamspy is saying 10-20 million copies sold on Steam alone. The game industry has been growing quite quickly the past decade so it maybe isn't that surprising that they are certainly in the top 50 best selling games of all time already and could be in the top 20. It seems likely they will make quite a lot of money even with issues. Sony has a new more capable system to sell anyone disappointed with the performance of the old one so I'm thinking they will do quite well also and both of them are just playing up the issues for free media attention. The game industry is strange, buy at release and you usually get a low quality product. Wait a year and not only will it work much better but you have a good chance of getting it 50% off as well.

Hamuko 6y ago

Revenue is kinda hard to estimate at this point when CD Projekt, Sony and Microsoft have opened up pretty generous refund policies for the game and with Sony stopping the digital sales entirely. CD Projekt said in an investor call that they would probably not disclose how much they lost in refunds.

cromka 6y ago
I listened to it and ai clearly remember this second or third question, which they answered to by saying they couldn't just tell yet, because it was too early – they only had begun issuing refunds a few days before the call and didn't actually see the numbers. This also isn't something they can withhold as a publicly traded company.
- Hamuko 6y ago
  >Q7: Thanks for that and regarding refunds – there’s no chance that the market will receive an update on the volume or number of refunds before the sales report around Christmas, yes? >AK: We don’t know yet. Before Christmas we will release sales numbers, but in terms of refunds – we’re not sure if we’ll share this information outside of the company.

joveian 6y ago

"Cyberpunk 2077 has likely already paid for itself. In a memo issued Friday [Dec 11], CD Projekt — the parent company of developer CD Projekt Red — said that its revenue from digital pre-order sales alone exceeds all of Cyberpunk 2077’s production costs and all of the company’s marketing and promotional costs for the game this year." https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/11/22170468/cyberpunk-2077-sales-revenue-cd-projekt https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/11/22170468/cyberpunk-2077-s... CDPR said they had 8 million preorders, and Steamspy is saying 10-20 million copies sold on Steam alone. The game industry has been growing quite quickly the past decade so it maybe isn't that surprising that they are certainly in the top 50 best selling games of all time already and could be in the top 20. It seems likely they will make quite a lot of money even with issues. Sony has a new more capable system to sell anyone disappointed with the performance of the old one so I'm thinking they will do quite well also and both of them are just playing up the issues for free media attention. The game industry is strange, buy at release and you usually get a low quality product. Wait a year and not only will it work much better but you have a good chance of getting it 50% off as well.