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SuperData: Red Dead Redemption 2 received a substantial boost after launching on Steam in December 2019. From 406K to 1.0M.
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A 40/60 split is still a lot better for EGS than I expected but it does show you that most people would rather wait for Steam, even for a highly desirable game like this one (excluding rebuys, anyway). I'm curious what it would be if there was a longer gap between releases.
Mind you RDR2 released on Rockstar launcher AND EGS in November. So the 40/60 Split is between steam and Rockstar Launcher/EGS.
Not terribly surprising to me or I assume anyone who's seen through the instances of EGS sales spin over the last year.
Calling it 40/60 is charitable considering EGS and RGL numbers are lumped together
I wonder what the split was between EGS and RGL.
Not sure who had it first as both OPs say "20 minutes ago," but https://www.resetera.com/threads/su...pent-on-gtav-in-1-month.166387/#post-28501249
Considering the wait was literally only a month I have to imagine most people thought "eh, I'll wait."
I think the delay would be a way bigger deal if it was 6 months or a year like most other Epic exclusives. A month is nothing for most people.
And this was probably expected by EGS, might have even been better sales than expected.
We all want them to stop the exclusive stuff, but their announcement that they beat forecasts by 60% kind of went ignored.
Need to keep pressuring devs/pubs to drop the EGS exclusive crap because unless Epic is lying it's worked more than they thought it would.
We all want them to stop the exclusive stuff, but their announcement that they beat forecasts by 60% kind of went ignored.
Need to keep pressuring devs/pubs to drop the EGS exclusive crap because unless Epic is lying it's worked more than they thought it would.
Red Dead Redemption 2's preorder bonuses on RGL were a free upgrade to the Premium Edition and a free game, all of which was advertised to players in-game in GTA5. I assume a fair share of people did get it through RGL at launch.
Probably not the good otherwise Tim would have tweeted about it.
Isn't Superdata kinda iffy on data accuracy?
That's what I would think so too. He'll be shouting from the rooftops with his twitter account to let the world know if they did better than the Rockstar Launcher.
That's what I would think so too. He'll be shouting from the rooftops with his twitter account to let the world know if they did better than the Rockstar Launcher.
Superdata is like notoriously unreliable take anything they say with like mountains of salt
granted the thread title is like 'no shit sherlock' territory
Ashen didn't do too hot and is currently at 478 reviews
Hades has 9102 and Supergiant seems pretty happy with it
granted theres a lot going on there (Hades is still EA, it got some streaming bump at some point, big updates constantly) that makes things unclear. we need to wait for more to get any clear pattern if there is one
i think big games will do fine, they'll have an update or dlc to push when it comes to steam and they will recover and sell fine at the end of the day
smaller games probably missed their launch spotlight and unless they are critical darlings (outer wilds will probably do gangbusters) i dont think will do too hot in their long term sales
i could be totally wrong though
granted the thread title is like 'no shit sherlock' territory
the "big ones" (these obviously vary depending on who you ask) so far were Ashen and Hades
Ashen didn't do too hot and is currently at 478 reviews
Hades has 9102 and Supergiant seems pretty happy with it
granted theres a lot going on there (Hades is still EA, it got some streaming bump at some point, big updates constantly) that makes things unclear. we need to wait for more to get any clear pattern if there is one
i think big games will do fine, they'll have an update or dlc to push when it comes to steam and they will recover and sell fine at the end of the day
smaller games probably missed their launch spotlight and unless they are critical darlings (outer wilds will probably do gangbusters) i dont think will do too hot in their long term sales
i could be totally wrong though
I'm assuming Superdata is ignoring the Rockstar Launcher version of the game, which would be really dumb, but it's the only way I can think of that would make these estimates make a vague amount of sense.
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If they were then they would've stated it I think since it a pretty significant omission.
Well we can only be concerned and not overestimate its sales imo...
so yeah we can only deduct from what we have on our plate :)
I know the 40/60 stuff. I am just saying I dont believe that:
a) RDR2 only sold 500k in the launch month
b) EGS was the main platform the game was sold on (by a 300 to 100 margin!) with how much push Rockstar put on its own launcher during the launch PR.
Ultimately, Superdata's estimates doesn't square up with PlayTracker's estimates (which estimated that the non-Steam version sold multiple millions). Admittedly, in turn PlayTracker's estimate for the Steam version (500k ish) doesn't square up with SteamSpy's estimate (north of a million). Ultimately, somebody (and potentially everybody) is wrong (although considering Superdata previously stated that their 408k November figure was only EGS copies, I wouldn't put too much stock on them turning around and going "406k in November between R* and EGS". This would also put doubt on SuperData's Borderlands 3 estimate)
The best would be for Epic to just give up the entire digital multi store business. Don't they have investors to answer to? How much money have they lost on EGS?
Probably just lower sales for Read Dead 2 on Steam. Mind you I don't think the lower sales would have resulted in more copies of Read Dead 2 being sold on other PC platforms either.
You would be a fool to expect any new launcher to do Steam numbers magically considering how dominating they have been but a 40/60 split at least shows a decent number of the audience are not "steam or bust".
Would be super curious to know how well the Rockstar Launcher did for them. Epic kept it away from Steam for a month but the Rockstar Launcher got all the marketing.
Would be super curious to know how well the Rockstar Launcher did for them. Epic kept it away from Steam for a month but the Rockstar Launcher got all the marketing.
I'm waiting a bit on this one before I jump on it, but sounds like the Steam version may have some longevity.