All purpose Sales and Sales Rumours and Anecdotes [2024 edition]

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Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty Has Sold More than 5 Million Units in 2023

CD Projekt RED announced that Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty has sold more than five million units before the end of 2023.
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2024 has begun favorably for CD Projekt RED as the Polish game developer announced yesterday that Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty sold over five million units across all platforms, following the previous benchmark of 4.3 million units from late November.
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The success of Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty is great news for CD Projekt RED, which spent a considerable amount of resources (of which a sizable cut probably went to Idris Elba for his role as Solomon Reed) to make it. The Polish studio revealed the expansion cost them around $85 million, although this figure includes marketing. Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty is priced at $29.99, so its sales have already broken the $150 million milestone.

Of course, CD Projekt RED has to surrender 30% of the cut to Valve (on Steam), Sony (on PlayStation), and Microsoft (on Xbox), though a good portion of its PC sales usually happen on GOG, which is owned by CDPR.
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Hogwarts Legacy Sold 22+ Million Units, Is the Best-Selling Game of 2023, Says WB; More HP 'Things' on the Way

Warner Bros. Games announced that Hogwarts Legacy has sold over 22 million units in 2023. It is the best-selling game released last year.
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Today, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment released new sales data on Hogwarts Legacy via an interview with Variety. The game has sold over 22 million copies in 2023, adding two million units just in the month of December, according to the publisher. Moreover, according to Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment president David Haddad, it is the best-selling game released last year.
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People spent more than 707 million hours playing Hogwarts Legacy, brewing 819 million potions, harvesting 1.3 billion magical plants, rescuing 593 million magical beasts, and defeating 4.9 billion dark wizards. It is no wonder, then, that Warner Bros. is already preparing 'a series of other things that will let the fans be part of this world and stories and characters in deeper and deeper ways'.
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UK Annual Sales 2023 #1 PS5 (+55% YoY), #2 Nintendo Switch (-16.7% YoY), #3 Xbox (-14.2%YoY) #1 EA Sports FC 24 #3 COD MW3

2.38 million games consoles were sold during the year in the UK, according to GfK panel data. That's a rise of 9.4% over the year before.

PS5 was the driver behind this. Sony's console saw sales rise 55.2% over 2022, making it the biggest year yet for new PlayStation. It's actually the best year for a PlayStation machine since 2014.

The other console to post year-on-year growth was, interestingly, PS4. Sales of PS4 were up 633% year-on-year. Like with PS5, this is due to severe console shortages that plagued PlayStation consoles throughout the year prior.
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Elsewhere, Nintendo Switch ended the year as the No.2 console, but sales are down 16.7% over the year before. This is the Switch's seventh year on the market and a decline was expected.


Narrowly behind Switch is the Xbox Series S and X, which saw sales drop 14.2% over the year before.

Over in accessories, nine million products were sold at UK retail in 2023, a drop of 4.5% over the year before, despite improved console sales.
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UK GSD 2023 Top 20 (Digital and Physical)​

PositionTitle
1EA Sports FC 24 (EA)
2Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros)
3Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)
4FIFA 23 (EA)
5Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)
6Spider-Man 2 (Sony)
7Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (EA)
8Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar)
9The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo)*
10Diablo 4 (Activision Blizzard)
11Super Mario Bros Wonder (Nintendo)*
12Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision)
13Mario Kart 8: Deluxe (Nintendo)*
14Assassin's Creed Mirage (Ubisoft)
15Resident Evil 4 Remake (Capcom)
16NBA 2K23 (2K Games)
17LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (Warner Bros)
18WWE 2K23 (2K Games)
19F1 23 (EA/Codemasters)
20Grand Theft Auto Online (Rockstar)
 

Interesting to to see EA Sports FC 24 right up there. I did wonder if the loss of the FIFA licence and brand would impact the appeal of this game series, but it looks like its off to a good start.
 
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Video Games are no longer the biggest entertainment medium in the UK - KitGuru

Back in 2012, video games took the top spot in the UK when it came to ranking the biggest entertainm
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As reported by Gamesindustry.biz, the trade body representing video, music and games retailers in the UK – ERA – released their latest figures, revealing that for the first time in over a decade, video games are no longer at the top spot.

With a 2.9% increase year-over-year, the UK’s video games industry amassed a total revenue of £4.74 Billion across PC, mobile and consoles in 2023. While an impressive amount with a healthy level of growth, the video industry saw a huge spike in 2023, growing by a whopping 10% to £4.9 Billion.
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According to ERA, the reason for such a high growth in video was thanks to subscription services like Netflix, Disney Plus and Apple TV – with subscription revenue said to account for 89% of the video market.
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DSoup said:
Interesting to to see EA Sports FC 24 right up there. I did wonder if the loss of the FIFA licence and brand would impact the appeal of this game series, but it looks like its off to a good start.
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I don't think video game players care about the FIFA brand as long as their football/soccer [:p] players are in it. EA made the right decision to drop the FIFA branding.

Regards,
SB
 
Silent_Buddha said:
I don't think video game players care about the FIFA brand as long as their football/soccer [:p] players are in it. EA made the right decision to drop the FIFA branding.
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Further to my earlier comment, apparently FC 24 is selling badly compared to previous FIFA-branded games and had been put on sale multiple times since launch which I understand isn't usual. I came across a reddit threat yesterday and apparently a lot of people who used to update every year are sticking to FIFA 23 and using mods.

The last footie game I played was Kick Off 2 on the C64 so I'm not that close to what the issues are but I can't see how EA can substantially improve a footie game every 12 months for 20 years to make it worthwhile to drop $70/year. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
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The top grossing mobile games of 2023 - Mobilegamer.biz

According to Appmagic, Honor of Kings and PUBG Mobile are top again while Royal Match, Honkai: Star Rail and Monopoly Go storm into the top ten.
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According to Appmagic data, Honor of Kings is once more the top grossing game worldwide on iOS and Android – and by some distance.
Tencent’s monster MOBA earned an estimated $1.48bn in 2023, over $300m more than closest rival PUBG Mobile, which is also published by Tencent.
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Baldur’s Gate 3 was the best-selling PC game of 2023 - KitGuru

2023 was an excellent year for video game releases across the board. That said, the PC market in par
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VGinsights have released their annual report for the global PC games market, breaking down sales, revenue, peak players and more. The full report can be accessed HERE, but some of the most interesting revelations include the fact that the PC market broke many of its own records last year, with 2023 seeing the “highest ever revenues, units sold, peak players online and number of games released on Steam.”
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That said, the platform also had a good number of huge successes with 20 new titles in total raking in over $50 million. Speaking of PC success stories, VGinsights shared the top 10 best-selling titles on PC both in terms of revenue and total units sold.

Despite being a full-priced premium title, the award-winning Baldur’s Gate 3 managed to not only make the greatest amount of revenue, but even beat out free-to-play games for the best-performing title by total units – an impressive feat indeed. The rest of the top 10 best-sellers by revenue is as follows:
  1. Baldur’s Gate 3
  2. Hogwarts Legacy
  3. Starfield
  4. Resident Evil 4
  5. Sons Of The Forest
  6. ARMORED CORE VI
  7. EA SPORTS FC 24
  8. STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor
  9. Lethal Company
  10. Cities: Skylines II
 
Went to my local electronic store. They had a lot of PS5 digital edition but had none with disc drives.
 
pharma said:
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Baldur’s Gate 3 was the best-selling PC game of 2023 - KitGuru

2023 was an excellent year for video game releases across the board. That said, the PC market in par
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VGinsights have released their annual report for the global PC games market, breaking down sales, revenue, peak players and more. The full report can be accessed HERE, but some of the most interesting revelations include the fact that the PC market broke many of its own records last year, with 2023 seeing the “highest ever revenues, units sold, peak players online and number of games released on Steam.”
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That said, the platform also had a good number of huge successes with 20 new titles in total raking in over $50 million. Speaking of PC success stories, VGinsights shared the top 10 best-selling titles on PC both in terms of revenue and total units sold.

Despite being a full-priced premium title, the award-winning Baldur’s Gate 3 managed to not only make the greatest amount of revenue, but even beat out free-to-play games for the best-performing title by total units – an impressive feat indeed. The rest of the top 10 best-sellers by revenue is as follows:
  1. Baldur’s Gate 3
  2. Hogwarts Legacy
  3. Starfield
  4. Resident Evil 4
  5. Sons Of The Forest
  6. ARMORED CORE VI
  7. EA SPORTS FC 24
  8. STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor
  9. Lethal Company
  10. Cities: Skylines II
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From all the noise about Starfield it looks like it still sold extremely well.
 
Shifty Geezer said:
That'll mess EA's financials up no end if so. It's a major cash-cow they've lost.
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Interesting if true.

Unfortunate timing, this is a Euro year and then next WC in 2026.

EA used to put out Euro and WC editions in addition to the usual game. Then also Road to the WC.

Did they also drop the Euro license with UEFA?


Also FIFA said they were going to license some other publisher or maybe put out their own FIFA game. That hasn't seemed to happen either.
 
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