Pretty sure playstation and Xbox recieve 30% of that.
Will still easily cover costs but 8 years and thousands of employees is a massive upfront cost
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Red Dead Redemption 2 Achieves Entertainment's Biggest Opening Weekend of All Time ($725m)
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Pretty sure playstation and Xbox recieve 30% of that.
Will still easily cover costs but 8 years and thousands of employees is a massive upfront cost
I don't understand this. The game never seemed very mainstream or iconic to me, especially considering it's theme and time-period. Sure, quality looks amazing, but confounds me how it would beat out other, much more established and accessible titles.
Rockstar's name alone.
RDR 1 being one of the highest rated games of last gen.
GTA 5 being one of the highest rated of last gen and highest selling.
It couldn't have gone any other way.
Both SP are well worth $60, RDR2 has a run time of 50 hours on main missions only, there's a massive epilogue after that and not to mention side stories and content. I mean seriously this is probably the best $60 you will pay this year if you are ok with Rockstar's gameplay
Not to single this post out, but I don't get this trend of mocking assumptions that were based on limited information, and not even antagonistically made.
They were proven wrong but why is it some kind of victory?
R* brand basically, their releases has became a big event after GTAV and even before during post GTA3. GTAVI will be massive
I don't get this I can't remember many saying anything like that in the thread just that it was kinda disappointing for the physical sales in uk. People like to read into thread what they like.
I think many people underestimate the pull the name Rockstar has. This is their first game this generation. It is a game from the people who made GTA 5. The first RDR is an acclaimed and beloved game. The marketing campaign in the days before launch was insane. That's really all that was needed here.
The UK sales thing is weird to me. Since when is doubling the previous game without digital not a good opening?
Or just take them for what they are and don't overreact. I took the UK sales as a sign that a big launch like this was coming, since RDR2 smashed Black Ops 4's UK launch.
Anyways, with digital included next year UK charts should be much more representative compared to historical data again.
also, fomo
and the rockstar thing of 1 event game every 5 years
and there are millions plyaing gtao daily who are willing to take a chance on another rockstar game
This game selling well does not mean we'll be getting glacial Western games with flaky controls from MS, Sony, Ubi, and EA anytime soon.
OK, this is what i wanted to hear. next step is 25milion first month. game is absolute masterpiece.
Because it didn't outsell FIFA or something. I dunno. Some tweet from a random guy calling the sales in the UK disappointing also got a lot of run in that thread.
Since the OP chose to frame it otherwise with the title chosen (that later got edited).
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The former is indeed PR nonsense.
The latter part is sales to consumers.
I think that's pretty close considering in 2015 FO4 shipped 12 million copies and generated 750 million dollars.
Meh, the articles said when sales were great employees were getting bonuses in the mid five figures. That's a pretty damn good bonus.
Sony takes more than a week to publish their sell-through numbers, how is Rockstar able to do it in only one day? And the $1 billion dollars record of GTA was not sell-through
It's Rockstar. The name alone carries a ton of weight. They haven't had a new game in 5 years. Plus the original Red Dead Redemption was well liked and very successful. If anyone else had released the same game, I don't think it would have been near as successful. It is as slow, but brilliant, game.
They even took activision's PSN records
remember when acti said they would take the records back after GTA V ?
well keep hoping bobby
https://www.mcvuk.com/business/activision-wants-to-reclaim-gta-v-sales-record-one-day
remember when acti said they would take the records back after GTA V ?
well keep hoping bobby
https://www.mcvuk.com/business/activision-wants-to-reclaim-gta-v-sales-record-one-day
For the UK, FIFA 19 was the biggest launch of the year followed by RDR 2.
(UK charts also don't count digital until next year).
I genuinely think it's one the greatest games ever made after you get your head around everything. Just constantly surprises me.
Well deserved.
Well deserved.
I suspect FIFA 19 is going to be the biggest launch in Europe as well.
