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Superdata: Cyberpunk 2077 had the biggest game launch of all time based on digital revenue and digital units sold (10.2M)

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stormfire

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A successful marketing campaign and the reputation of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt provided the hype necessary for the CD Projekt Red title to break records despite issues including performance problems on consoles, widespread glitches and the indefinite removal of the game from the PlayStation Store. An extremely high share of digital sales (80%) were on PC, likely due to the delisting on PlayStation and overall state of the console versions.
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* These estimates do include digital copies that have been refunded, but our data shows that refunds did not substantially affect the game's aggregate sales.
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January 2021 worldwide digital games market — SuperData, a Nielsen Company

Worldwide digital games earnings rose by 15% year-over-year to reach $11.6B in January 2021. Revenue was up annually across all device types.
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Lmao. People were saying it was a failure in those refund threads.

It's a shame that CDPR lied about the state of the game.
 
Kingpin722

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Insane what they were able to do essentially off the goodwill the Witcher 3 generated for them. Instantly gained them cult like loyalty for completely unproven game. Sad that people will never learn how to temper their hype.
 
Razmos

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So the moral of the story is to lie and cheat and treat people like trash
 
Diarrhea Day-Lewis

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Do we have numbers on # of returns? It's disheartening to see CDPR get away with this. I'm sure it can be and probably is a good game, but between all the non-gameplay issues and then adding the game performance issues, it's sad to see their execs make so much $ of deceptive marketing, and bad work conditions.
 
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Impressive - i feel this game is gonna have crazy legs especially on PC and once the next-gen patches arrive.
 

Lagspike_exe

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Going to buy it as soon as they releasae the next gen update. They'll probably fix the majority of issues or at least the fundamental ones by then.
 
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JDHarbs

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m_shortpants said:
Undeserved.

Biggest let down in gaming history?
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I'd give a slight edge to Colonial Marines. Cyberpunk bugs will get fixed eventually. Gearbox did just as bad in terms of false marketing only they didn't give a shit about fixing the game ever after release, but they made sure to release that DLC though *sigh*
 
Butch

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It's a good game even with the issues it has, everyone I know who's playing it loves it and is recommending it to other people, not surprised.

Edit: I'm talking about people who don't necessarily follow gaming news that much or all the controversies sorrounding CP. That's why I'm saying this doesn't surprise me.
 
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all the wrong lessons will be learned from this fiasco. Suits patting each other on the back, management continuing to embrace crunch, 'cdpr magic' etc...
 
Magic-Man

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Really conflicted on this. The game is good, but the management is gonna look at this and be like "See? Nobody cares about all the shitty stuff we did!" and continue to pull shit. Fuck CDPR management. All of them can go to hell.
 
LabRat

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on one hand i'm happy a cyberpunk project is a huge financial success which almost never happens. on the other hand if the game keeps selling like this cdpr really has no reason to fix the game and they will just do the same again with the witcher 4
 
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Really conflicted on this. The game is good, but the management is gonna look at this and be like "See? Nobody cares about all the shitty stuff we did!" and continue to pull shit. Fuck CDPR management. All of them can go to hell.
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They've also seen the refunds, they've been dragged in social media, they did lose the trust of many people (not all obviously, but nobody ever does). So I doubt they think all is fine, they lost a lot of sales after the release when the faults came apparent and the shitstorm began. Simply being pulled from PSN lost them a truckload of money. They didn't get away without consequences just because the lights are still on.
 
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Abylim said:
I gave it a shot. In my 30-35 hours of play I had tons of crashes and bugs. As someone who put up with Skyrim on the PS3, I just couldn't do it again >_<
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I had a lot more luck with Skyrim than Fallout 3 on PS3, so buggy. I actually managed to have less bugs in New Vegas than Fallout 3, even.

Well, until my save eventually got too big...
 
Ales34

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Tragic. This would only encourage companies to hype up a broken product with non-existent features and reap the benefits on the release day. Lying pays off, apparently.
 
Butch

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Abylim said:
I gave it a shot. In my 30-35 hours of play I had tons of crashes and bugs. As someone who put up with Skyrim on the PS3, I just couldn't do it again >_<
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I totally get that, I only had like 2 crashes in 100 hours of playtime and some funny bugs but nothing that breaks the game, on PC. I watched a friend playing it and she did have constant crashes and bugs, seemed like a different game to what I was playing.
 
MeltedDreams

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It's kinda insane how CD Projekt used the huge success of Witcher to lie about everything Cyberpunk and lure tons of people to pre-order their unfinished product. Heck, even this forum choose Cyberpunk 2077 as most anticipated 2020 game based on all fake pre-release videos.
 
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