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[dLMN8R]

So call me crazy, but I'm taking a quick glance at the sales numbers here and it seems to me that PC gaming never really died but rather the market never really grew to COD type numbers.

The fallacy in that entire mindset is that it presumes "console gaming" grew to COD type numbers. On the contrary, Call of Duty grew to Call of Duty type numbers. Practically nothing else comes close, on any platform.

It's also why people are so radically misinformed about what concurrent player numbers should be deemed impressive. Call of Duty regularly has millions playing concurrently, so when people saw Skyrim doing around 300,000 on Steam, they went "meh".

Again, on the contrary, while Call of Duty does 1-2+ million concurrent players, practically nothing else comes anywhere close.

 

[Gully State]

The fallacy in that entire mindset is that it presumes "console gaming" grew to COD type numbers. On the contrary, Call of Duty grew to Call of Duty type numbers. Practically nothing else comes close, on any platform.

It's also why people are so radically misinformed about what concurrent player numbers should be deemed impressive. Call of Duty regularly has millions playing concurrently, so when people saw Skyrim doing around 300,000 on Steam, they went "meh".

Again, on the contrary, while Call of Duty does 1-2+ million concurrent players, practically nothing else comes anywhere close.

That's why I didn't specificially say "console."

 

[RibbedHero]

Dear Esther sells 16,000 in it's first day, recouping all of its development costs. Seriously impressive for a niche indie game.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/02/15/dear-esther-we-sold-16000-copies-in-24-hours-shepherds/

 

[Saty]

Thank you all, updates posts.

 

[Glaurungr]

According to this video Mount & Blade has sold over 1 million copies, but it doesn't say if this is the original game, Warband, or even With Fire and Sword, or all of them put together.

 

[Sentenza]

In other news: Remedy claim they recouped both development and marketing expenses with the PC version in the first 48 hours.

http://forum.alanwake.com/showpost.php?p=141586&postcount=24

Not sure if I should post it here on in the Alan Wake thread, to be honest.

 

[dsk1210]

In other news: Remedy claim they recouped both development and marketing expenses with the PC version in the first 48 hours.

http://forum.alanwake.com/showpost.php?p=141586&postcount=24

Not sure if I should post it here on in the Alan Wake thread, to be honest.

I am pleased at that, hopefully american nightmares will get done as well now.

 

[DrWong]

Farming Simulator > http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/farming-simulator-ploughs-into-3ds/089859

The Farming Simulator PC series has sold close to 2m copies worldwide – 80 per cent of which are boxed.

We don't know if it's for the latest iteration (2011) or for the entire franchise. I think it's for the the franchise if we follow this other quote coming from the same source a few month before > http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/farming-simulator-sells-500-000-units/084560

There's proof that farming isn’t just popular with casual gamers – Farming Simulator has sold 500,000 copies worldwide.

The specialist PC series has sold 300,000 units in Germany alone following the release of Farming Simulator 2011 last November, which also broke into the PC Top Ten in the UK.

 

[Felix Lighter]

In other news: Remedy claim they recouped both development and marketing expenses with the PC version in the first 48 hours.

http://forum.alanwake.com/showpost.php?p=141586&postcount=24

Not sure if I should post it here on in the Alan Wake thread, to be honest.

That's good to hear. They handled the port very well and have been responsive to the community.

 

[RibbedHero]

Farming Simulator > http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/farming-simulator-ploughs-into-3ds/089859



We don't know if it's for the latest iteration (2011) or for the entire franchise. I think it's for the the franchise if we follow this other quote coming from the same source a few month before > http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/farming-simulator-sells-500-000-units/084560

They quite clearly say "The Farming Simulator series" So I assume it's the entire franchise.

 

[KKRT00]

The Witcher 2 sold 1,110,055 copies in 2011

and The Witcher 1 sold 401,543 copies in 2011

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-02-21-the-witcher-2-sold-1-1-million-copies-in-2011

From my math CD Projekt got more than 25m$ back from The Witcher 2 sales, where development cost around 10m.

 

[Saty]

Yeah, saw it earlier. It's probably new thread worthy, i think i'll start one after this post.

 

[Felix Lighter]

The Witcher 2 sold 1,110,055 copies in 2011

and The Witcher 1 sold 401,543 copies in 2011

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-02-21-the-witcher-2-sold-1-1-million-copies-in-2011

From my math CD Projekt got more than 25m$ back from The Witcher 2 sales, where development cost around 10m.

Look at those long legs on The Witcher.

If they were able to develop The Witcher 2 for around $10 million, it just shows how bloated the industry has become. They crafted a large RPG with maybe the best production values of any game released last year and their budget is a small fraction of what the big publishers are spending on similar projects.

If every game didn't need to sell multiple millions of copies to be successful, the industry would be in a better place.

 

[Mr_eX]

Dungeon Defenders has sold over a million
http://dungeondefenders.com/dundef-digest-282012

That probably has console sales mixed in but it's pretty well know that the game sells more on PC than consoles. I was playing TF2 with one of the developers and they said more than 80% of the revenue comes from the PC version.

 

[Glaurungr]

Full Throttle sold a million copies "back in the day", according to Tim Schafer.

 

[Glaurungr]

Here's some interesting sales data for Atom Zombie Smasher. It has sold 98 199 copies as of December, 2011, with more than 96% being sold on Steam.

 

[Perkel]

The Witcher 2 sold 1,110,055 copies in 2011

and The Witcher 1 sold 401,543 copies in 2011

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-02-21-the-witcher-2-sold-1-1-million-copies-in-2011

From my math CD Projekt got more than 25m$ back from The Witcher 2 sales, where development cost around 10m.

Wow at Witcher 1 numbers. Those are looong legs. As of mid 2010 witcher 1 sold 1,5mln coppies. So considering later half of year and almost 500k of 2011 sales. W2 sold now more than 2mln coppies.

Impresive stuff for CD Project Red.

 

[Glaurungr]

Garry's Mod has sold 1.4 million copies.

 

[Joseph Merrick]

Wasteland 2 has sold 32,273 copies 1.5 years before it's out. :O

 

[Vampire On Titus]

Wow at Witcher 1 numbers. Those are looong legs. As of mid 2010 witcher 1 sold 1,5mln coppies. So considering later half of year and almost 500k of 2011 sales. W2 sold now more than 2mln coppies.

Impresive stuff for CD Project Red.

2 million for the Witcher 1 is fucking sick. Hopefully W2 has those kinds of legs, and the console version should do some good numbers as well, hopefully.

 

[TedNindo]

Duke Nukem 3D sold around 3.5 million copies according to this article.







There are more then enough people willing to buy games on PC. It's just that publishers and developers see the console sales, get greedy and want a slice.

 

[Glaurungr]

The Witcher is up to 2.1 million sold.

 

[FuKuy]

Diablo III 6.3 million.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=475193

 

[Saty]

Updated the posts with some of the recent data.

 

[Sentenza]

Taken from Frictional Games blog "Amnesia, Two years later"

http://frictionalgames.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/amnesia-two-years-later.html

"Amnesia has sold almost 1.4 million units! This reasoning is not strictly speaking invalid, but I think that one should not really count anyone that bought the bundle and already owned Amnesia as a proper unit. A slightly pessimistic guess (not far from reality I think) is that 2/3 of every bundle and pack buyer already owned Amnesia. This gives us about 920 000 units in total, pessimistically speaking. So saying that we have sold a million units seems fair. Wait... a million units! Oh shit!!"

"Also worth noting that our Penumbra games are still going on at the same rate that they always have. They are still selling about the same numbers (a little more actually) as they did three years ago. This totals to about 900 units per month. Taking all sales together is more than enough to support the company, financing A Machine For Pigs (more on that later) and having some left over. This means that we are in a very good position and aim to use it to take more risk and try out new things (more on this later).

I think we have never disclosed how much we Amnesia cost to make, so might as well do that here. The (exactly) three years of development cost a total of 360 000 US Dollars. It has since earned more than ten times that. Take that investors we talked to in 2009!"

 

[Glaurungr]

Some more sales figures for a few different games:

• Dear Esther: 250 000
• Guild Wars 2: 2 million
• Terraria: 1.6 million

 

[hiryu]

The Binding of Isaac went over a million during the steam summer sale according to Ed's personal blog.

 

[HoosTrax]

The (exactly) three years of development cost a total of 360 000 US Dollars. It has since earned more than ten times that. Take that investors we talked to in 2009!"

He must not be factoring in cost of labor (or the equivalent of how much a developer would be making in a job in industry over the same period).

 

[Sentenza]

He must not be factoring in cost of labor (or the equivalent of how much a developer would be making in a job in industry over the same period).

Actually I would guess that's pretty much all he's factoring.

 

[HoosTrax]

Actually I would guess that's pretty much all he's factoring.

$360,000 over three years? That means it was made by two people. Unless there's some fuzzy math going on and the cost of labor is significantly cheaper where he is (which is quite possible).

 

[Saty]

Updated OP with Torchlight II and Hotline Miami. Bumping as 2012 ended and maybe people here can point at data i missed.

 

[Saty]

The Humble Bundle took Dear Esther past 750,000 copies.
https://twitter.com/jessicacurry2/status/342960081916284929

Also, as more devs are participating on GAF, feel free to share estimations if you are at liberty to

 

[Saty]

Good amount of updates lately

 

[Abinash117]

Is it possible to get PC sales of multi platform titles like COD , assassins creed , BF,etc

 

[Saty]

Starting to hit the character limit in OP. Need to think how to separate the list.

 

[Saty]

Moved franchise sales to make room in OP.

Franchises

• Age of Empires Franchise
  
  Latest Figure: 20 Million copies (August 2008)​
  
  
  
  
• ANNO Franchise
  
  Latest Figure: 5M+ copies (August 2013)​
  Sales History: N\A
  ​
  
  
  
  
• Baldur's Gate Franchise
  
  Latest Figure: 5 Million copies (2009 \ 2010)​
  
  
  
  
• Command & Conquer Franchise
  
  Latest Figure:
  - 13.5 Million copies (November 2000)
  - 30 Million copies (July 2009)​
  
  
  
• Neverwinter Nights Franchise
  
  Latest Figure: 3 Million copies (April 2007)​
  Sales History:
  - 2 Million copies (August 2004)
  - 3 Million copies (April 2007)​
  
  
  
  
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R Franchise (3 titles)
  
  
  Latest Figure: 4 Million copies (August 2010)​
  
  
  
  
• Stronghold Franchise
  
  Latest Figure: 5 Million copies (August 2010)​
  
  
  
• Total War Franchise
  
  Latest Figure: 7+ Million copies (August 2013; 3.4M in US Retail)​
  
  
  
  
• Warhammer Franchise
  
  Latest Figure: 6.5 Million copies (July 2011)​

 

[Saty]

OP reached character limit. New or updated data will be in this post.
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• Broken Age
  
  Release Date: January 2014​
  Latest Figure: 134,931 copies (July 2014, excluding Backers)​
  Sales History: N\A​
  
  
  
  
• Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
  
  Release Date: October 2012​
  Latest Figure: 2M copies (July 2014)​
  Sales History:
  
  - 1.2M copies (August 2013; copies sold up to, and including, June '13)
  ​
  
  
  
  
• Cities: Skylines
  
  Release Date: March 2015​
  Latest Figure: 500,000+ copies (First 6 Days)​
  Sales History:
  - 250,000 copies (First 24 Hours)​
  
  
  
  
• Crawl
  
  Release Date: August 2014 (Early Access)​
  Latest Figure: 10,441 copies (First 10 Days)​
  Sales History: N\A​
  
  
  
  
• Crusader Kings 2
  
  Release Date: February 2012​
  Latest Figure: 1.1M+ copies (February 2015)​
  Sales History:
  - 300,000+ copies (September 2013)
  - 1M+ copies (September 2014)
  
  Expansion Pack Sold: 2.5M copies
  Cosmetic DLC: 5.5M copies
  ​
  
  
  
  
• DayZ (Standalone)
  
  Release Date: December 2013 (Early Access)​
  Latest Figure: 3M copies (January 2015)​
  Sales History:
  - 88,000 copies (First 12 hours)
  - 172,500 copies (First 24 hours)
  - 400,000+ copies (First Week)
  - 875,000 copies (First 3 Weeks)
  - 1M copies (First 4 Weeks)
  - 1.7M copies (March 2014)
  - 2M copies (May 2014)
  - 2.5M copies (August 2014)
  - 2.83M copies (December 16th 2014)
  ​
  
  
  
  
• Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten
  
  Release Date: October 2012​
  Latest Figure: 230,000 copies (September 2014)​
  Sales History: N\A​
  
  
  
  
• Diablo III: Reaper of Souls
  
  Release Date: March 2014​
  Latest Figure: 2.7M copies (First Week)​
  Sales History: N\A​
  
  
  
  
• Divinity: Original Sin
  
  Release Date: June 2014​
  Latest Figure: 500,000+ copies (September 2014)​
  Sales History: N\A​
  
  
  
  
• Ethan: Meteor Hunter
  
  Release Date: February 2014​
  Latest Figure: 105,754 copies (December 2014)​
  Sales History: N/A​
  
  
  
  
• Goat Simulator
  
  Release Date: April 2014​
  Latest Figure: Nearly 1M copies (August 2014)​
  Sales History: N\A​
  
  
  
• H1Z1
  
  Release Date: January 2015​
  Latest Figure: 1M+ copies (March 2015)​
  Sales History: N\A​
  
  
  
  
• Infestation: Survivor Stories
  
  Release Date: December 2012​
  Latest Figure: 2.8M+ copies (January 2015)​
  Sales History:
  - 700,000 copies (First 2 months)
  - 1.3M+ copies (July 2013)
  - 2.5M copies (April 2014)​
  
  
  
  
• Insurgency
  
  Release Date: March 2013 (Early Access); January 2014 (Regular release)​
  Latest Figure: 400,000+ copies (September 2014)​
  Sales History: N\A​
  
  
  
  
• Legend of Grimrock
  
  Release Date: April 2012​
  Latest Figure: 900,000+ copies (October 2014)​
  Sales History:
  - 600,000+ copies (January 2013)​
  
  
  
  
• Life Is Feudal: Your Own
  
  Release Date: September 2014 (Early Access)​
  Latest Figure: 100,000+ copies (October 20th '14)​
  Sales History:
  - 65,000 copies (October 2nd '14)​
  
  
  
  
• Octodad: Dadliest Catch
  
  Release Date: January 2014​
  Latest Figure: 280,898 copies (January 2015)​
  Sales History:
  - 90,000+ copies (March 2014)
  ​
  
  
  
  
• Outlast
  
  Release Date: September 2013​
  Latest Figure: 600,000 copies (September 2014)​
  Sales History:
  - 116,000 copies (First Month)
  - 328,000 copies (January 2014)
  
  * Figures don't include the DLC.
  ​
  
  
  
  
• Prison Architect
  
  Release Date: September 2012 (Paid Alpha)​
  Latest Figure: 1,066,233 copies (January 2015)​
  Sales History:
  - 250,000 copies (November 2013)
  - 330,000+ copies (January 2014)​
  
  
  
  
• Reus
  
  Release Date: May 2013​
  Latest Figure: 700,000 copies (August 2014)​
  Sales History:
  - 235,000 copies (First 3 Months)​
  
  
  
  
• Rust
  
  Release Date: December 2013 (Paid Alpha)​
  Latest Figure: 2.1+ Million copies (January 2015)​
  Sales History:
  - 150,000+ copies (First 2 Weeks)
  - 500,000+ copies (~First Month)
  - 1M+ copies (February 2014; in less than two months)
  - 1.46 Million copies (April 2014)
  ​
  
  
  
  
• Shovel Knight
  
  Release Date: June 2014​
  Latest Figure: 72,000 copies (First Month)​
  Sales History: N\A​
  
  
  
  
• Space Engineers
  
  Release Date: October 2013 (Early Access)​
  Latest Figure: 1M copies (October 2014)​
  Sales History:
  - 100,000 copies (November 2013)
  - 250,000 copies (February 2014)
  - 500,000+ copies (May 2014)​
  
  
  
  
• SpeedRunners (Early Access)
  
  Release Date: August 2013​
  Latest Figure: 600,000+ copies (March 2015)​
  Sales History: N\A​
  
  
  
  
• SPINTIRES
  
  Release Date: June 2014​
  Latest Figure: 100,000+ copies (First 18 Days)​
  Sales History: N\A​
  
  
  
  
• Sunless Sea
  
  Release Date: February 2015​
  Latest Figure: 100,000+ copies (February 28th)​
  Sales History: N\A​
  
  
  
  
• The Long Dark
  
  Release Date: September 2014 (Early Access)​
  Latest Figure: 250,000+ copies (January 2015)​
  Sales History: N\A​
  
  
  
  
• The Stanley Parable
  
  Release Date: October 2013​
  Latest Figure: 1M+ copies (October 2014)​
  Sales History:
  - 100,000+ copies (First 3 Days)​
  
  
  
  
• The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
  
  Release Date: September 2014​
  Latest Figure: 150,000 copies (~First 4 Months)​
  Sales History:
  - 50,000 copies (First 2 Weeks)
  - 60,000 copies (First Month)​
  
  
  
  
• Ys Origin
  
  Release Date: May 2012​
  Latest Figure: 200,000+ copies (January 2015)​
  Sales History: N\A​
  
  
  
  
• World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor
  
  Release Date: November 2014​
  Latest Figure: 3.3M copies (First 24 Hours)​
  Sales History: N/A​

 

[Sinsem]

Crusader Kings II has now sold more than 1 million units as of september 2014 (source)

The source for Reus figures seems to link to an article about Anno Online.

 

[Saty]

Thanks. Updated CK2 and fixed the Reus links.