Reminder: the game had sold 1 million units two weeks after launch: https://www.resetera.com/threads/detroit-become-human-sold-1-million-units-in-two-weeks.48043/
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Detroit: Become Human has reached 1.5 million players
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Reminder: the game had sold 1 million units two weeks after launch: https://www.resetera.com/threads/detroit-become-human-sold-1-million-units-in-two-weeks.48043/
In more than a month and a half ? I expected more than that for a game of this caliber, since it's supposed to be pretty frontloaded.
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True however with majority of PS4 game sales being digital plus even taking off the .5 as borrowed games. There is a high probability those are 1 million unique game sales accounted for.
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That's pretty good for a game like this.
Bloodborne was reported as passing 2 million 6 months after launch.
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/ps4s-bloodborne-sells-2-million/1100-6430572/
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The game did sell one million units two weeks after release, though.
Players. But it's already sold for more than 1mil so it's a good result for a game like this. They need a price drop to keep selling
Wouldn't the numbers be really close though? I assume "players" counts PS4s with multiple accounts, but I can't imagine that makes up a really large %.
The million of sales was announced a while ago yep, mid-June.
Detroit will pass 2 million this year for sure.
Not really comparable at all.
Is that so ? It means that with one more month it sold less than 500k units. I don't see it going much further unless there's a severe price drop.
Well, I'd consider a game like Detroit to be even more niche than a game like Bloodborne.
Lifetime a couple million sold is probably what they anticipated
This is a good number.
Also players/sales should be close because its not like its on a free gamepass trial available.
Also players/sales should be close because its not like its on a free gamepass trial available.
With those production values & content ? It wouldn't even have been greenlighted if that was the case.
Thats really good. Sony had a monster year. Even got Spidey around the corner
This is a very different type of game than the ones you mention. There is not an expectation for it to compete with them. The fact they are announcing this number means they are happy with it.
I should've clarified better. I didn't mean just Sony's expectations about sales but people here as well. I do however wonder if Sony would shift in the future to target hit heavy titles only from the AAA space due to the success they had this gen. Time will tell.
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Here you can find more info about the game's budget: https://www.resetera.com/threads/he...ome-human-dev-budget-about-€30-million.17001/
Also, in this interview David Cage said that all of QD's games have been profitable: https://www.resetera.com/threads/in...ndustry-trends-interactive-fiction-etc.43143/
Apparently Detroit's dev budget was €30 million. Even if we turn that into the USD equivalent (roughly $34,738,500) and then generalise that at 1.5 million sold at $60 USD (which is a terrible thing to build an point off on but I digress) then that's $90,000,000 USD in the bank.
But again, it isn't 1.5 million sold just players, and its a generalisation of the 1.5 mil sold at $60 USD despite other territories and regions pricing the game differently and whatnot. My point is, I guess, that they should have made a profit on it, even if marketing supposedly boosted the budget to over $50 million.
Those are some pretty good numbers. I really loved Detroit Become Human and hopefully this means Sony will continue to publish these type of games.
I'm plenty aware. Heavy Rain was a juggernaut, more than doubling its total budget in revenue, due to particularly good word of mouth that made it one of the leggiest 1st party Sony game.
If QD is communicating about these numbers, it must mean that they're happy with those and they probably know how to handle a budget. But it's a noticeably more expensive game than the previous ones and it isn't carrying the same word of mouth. I was just surprised that the number wasn't higher at this point, given the marketing push.
Birdseye quoted them for me here. Selling a couple millions LTD when Heavy Rain sold twice more than that would be a terrible scenario, not one that was ever going to happen anyway.
Are you sure about that? It took Heavy Rain six months to hit 1.5m sales. Know how many units have sold as of 2018? 5.3m.
Shuhei Yoshida has explicitly said that their job as a first party publisher is to provide variety to a console's game library where not all games they publish are mega sellers, but instead filling gaps not covered by third party publishers.
Heavy Rain was a different case, it made the reputation of the studio and sold that well because of word of mouth. It released kinda "out of nowhere" for the mass market. Maybe thats just me but now that the studio is well established and hyped a more ambitious project for years, I expected more out of it.
Jesse Williams in particular and Bryan Dechart have been very very aggressively marketing this game on their social media. And the fan art following for this game is just as huge as say....Overwatch
Yeah I hope that philosophy remain intact. With projects like Dreams and Concrete Genie there is nothing to worry about in the immediate future.