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Mat Piscatella: Horizon: Forbidden West was one of the US market's top 10 best-selling games during the week ending March 23rd
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crazyriddler
Member
It seems that all those worried about the economy and the loss of playstation's branding can rest easy.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Man I kinda wanna get it just to see how good it looks but the first game was aggressively boring.
kazuyamishima
Member
The game is possibly closer or passed the 10m. units mark, and already made their development cost.
Thick Thighs Save Lives
NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
They've been doing it for quite some time. Here's a recent example with their YTD (Jan + Feb) top 20 games.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
we dont know what is the number
Gaiff
SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
And we won't know until Sony discloses it. The game took 1 year of work to port. Probably cost Sony a coffee machine and a pack of cigarettes.
It's doing fine.
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Unknown?
Member
That doesn't mean it's doing well.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
Gaiff
SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
It's in the top 10 highest-grossing paid games on Steam, and this includes titles like Cyberpunk which is currently on sale for 50% off.
Last week it was top 5.
It's doing fine.
Mr Hyde
Member
Horizon Forbidden West is a great sequel. It expands on the original game in the best possible way, with new gadgets, weapons and robot dinosaurs to fight. Combat and exploring the world is really fun. It also looks fucking great. One of the best looking games out now. A true next gen showcase.
balls of snow
Member
Bringing back from 2022.
DForce
NaughtyDog Defense Force
But someone on Gaf yesterday literally said:
"I hate to break it to you but PS Studios aren't exactly setting the world on fire currently."
Who do I believe...
I think Resident Evil 2, 4, 7, and 8 have all sold less than 3.5 million copies each on PC.
You don't have those same GAF members calling the Resident Evil franchise overrated. lol
Seems like certain GAF members are looking for an opportunity to talk shit about PlayStation games.
Hawking Radiation
Member
Started up the game for the first time yesterday and have everything cranked up to Ultra.
WOW is all i can say. This looks absolutely incredible and I'm having a lot of fun playing it.
Can't imagine how good Death Stranding 2 is going to look in game.
Have it on my ultra wide PC and holy shit you're in for a treat. I found the first one a bit boring as well. This one (so far) I'm enjoying playing through but yeah its a visual treat. So much detail on screen and the character models are the best I've seen so far.
WOW is all i can say. This looks absolutely incredible and I'm having a lot of fun playing it.
Can't imagine how good Death Stranding 2 is going to look in game.
Have it on my ultra wide PC and holy shit you're in for a treat. I found the first one a bit boring as well. This one (so far) I'm enjoying playing through but yeah its a visual treat. So much detail on screen and the character models are the best I've seen so far.
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Tiago Rodrigues
Member
Good thing the game already sold like 9M or more before its PC release lmao.
Gameplay Gods Bless
Member
It's not unusual for a Capcom game to sell better on PC these days than console, that's why they recently switched their lead platform to be PC.
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
Yep, I will buy it when it goes on deep deep sale, because I have no interest in actually playing the game, kinda like a lot of the Assasins Creed games.
Boss Mog
Member
Most people probably didn't even know it was out. It's not like they advertise Steam releases that much.
The franchise is in trouble though, the one thing that truly shined was Lance Reddick's performance as Sylens, the only interesting character. Now that he's sadly left us, I'm not sure what could motivate me to play a 3rd game.
The franchise is in trouble though, the one thing that truly shined was Lance Reddick's performance as Sylens, the only interesting character. Now that he's sadly left us, I'm not sure what could motivate me to play a 3rd game.
Self_Destructive
Member
Nice to hear, especially considering it was going up against Dragon's Dogma 2 on the same day. So it's probably sold around ~200-300K considering Steam and Epic. At $70, that's a decent chunk of change right there already. Considering we know these ports cost them somewhere ~$2M to produce.. this is easy money for them.
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Last Hearth
Member
Don’t care about this game, but maybe this will get Stellar Blade on PC faster.
ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
This means those folks are wrong. Or maybe they want to create a narrative that it wasn’t selling well for one reason or another
DForce
NaughtyDog Defense Force
Resident Evil games often sell better on PlayStation whereas games like Monster Hunter are either very close or surpass sales on PlayStation.
HRK69
Gold Member
I like the way you think
Why not buy Forbidden West for me to speed up the process?
ShaiKhulud1989
Gold Member
You can argue about the game all you want (I, for one, liked it very much even during my PS5 playthrough), but PC port is just splendid. Second game after CP2077 with PT that gave me the feeling that 4080 upgrade wasn’t a complete waste. And it runs equally great on my wife’s 1080p machine with 3060 without any tweaks.
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Zathalus
Member
Some people are going to get upset that you said this, even though Capcom confirmed both of these things already.
Fess
Member
Been playing it for 25 or so hour on a living room PC and it’s very likely the best looking game I’ve seen on my TV. The water areas and lush forrests and the punchy colors. It’s just a feast for the eyes. I bet playing on a ultrawide is even better.
Can’t wait for mods though! Only reshades so far.
Tomi
Member
I dont know how much money they get from one copy sold but if it's around 20$ from 60$ then they earned over 6 million $ , so it's more than 4 million $ profit after few days
That is great number indeed
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TheRedRiders
Member
I'm glad the PC folks are enjoying it - still one of my favourite games in recent years, the final act is very cinematic in terms of storytelling and scale, and the game is a visual joy to look at. I cannot wait for the third game!
Tiago Rodrigues
Member
Most Nixxes ports so far have been great. One of Sony's best acquisitions for sure.
Self_Destructive
Member
They get 70%. So lets say 220K copies sold so far. That's 220K x $70 = $15.4M x .7 = $10.78M
Which would make it about $8M profit already from Steam alone. Any sales they've made from EGS they'd get 88%.. but let's keep it simple with just Steam. One thing about their "full price" model is it allows them to put on sales to more reasonable prices while still making good money from the game.
If this game follows the first games trajectory and sells over 3M lifetime on PC.. and if we figure the first 500K copies are sold at $70, then the next 1M copies at $49 (30% off), then the last 1.5M copies are sold at $35 (50% off) then they will have made ~
(again, let's just assume it's a straight 70/30 rev split even though we know after the first $50M in sales steam takes less)
500K x 70 = $35M x .7 = $24.5M
1M x 49 = $49M x .7 = $34.3M
1.5M x 35 = $52.5 x .7 = $36.75M
24.5M + 34.3M + 36.75M = $95.55M
So ~$100M made from something that cost them $2M to make. This is why these ports will continue to happen lmao.. the ROI over time is crazy good. If they move the dates up, they stand to make a lot more.
DrFigs
Member
because it's not true
edit: my bad it could be true. for some reason i was just thinking of Resident Evil games.
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YeulEmeralda
Linux User
Very few games have legs. Videogames are always front loaded. It is why they push pre orders. Getting those €70 sales is preferred to €7.99 Steam sales in 5 years.
The fact that it sells won’t make it a good game.
I bought it thinking it was haters talking the game down and, to my surprise, it was a pile of burning trash.
Fake
Member
Thats 'why' being the number one of the week is different from 'one of the US top 10 of the week'.
mayham2199
Member
How is the franchise in trouble? It's one of Sony's top performing franchises when did it fall into trouble?
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
Not a Sony doomer and I want their games to do well on PC but if that’s the lower end of the top 10 it might not be a whole lot of revenue.
I think it’s all worth it for Sony either way as I’ve been saying for years I believe their plan is a PS Store on PC.
I think it’s all worth it for Sony either way as I’ve been saying for years I believe their plan is a PS Store on PC.
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