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Posted June 02, 2011
About the sales of this game is it 400.000 retail, or does it include D2D, Steam, GOG ?
Posted June 02, 2011
since GOG was there i would assume it includes GOG
Posted June 02, 2011
That's not a bad number for a PC-only game from a relatively unknown developer.
Post edited June 02, 2011 by BakedGoods
Posted June 02, 2011
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mico11: About the sales of this game is it 400.000 retail, or does it include D2D, Steam, GOG ?
Only ?

Apart from Sims and Blizzard's games very few games manage to sell that much in only a week especially PC exclusive (well not exclusive anymore...).
Posted June 02, 2011
1st week, yes, 400k retail and digital
Posted June 02, 2011
For one week of a pc exclusive from a niche developer, it's actually pretty decent.
Posted June 02, 2011
Well, I read that the budget for Witcher 2 was 8 million $, if that is true then 400K units in a week is literally more than profitable if we assume that the price pr. unit is approx. 50$.

50$ X 400.000 Units = 20 million $ :-)

I'd say that CDPR is profitable.
Posted June 02, 2011
400,000 in one week is huge; that's Dragon Age 2 numbers while DA2 was still selling off Dragon Age: Origins laurels.

I wouldn't be surprised if CDP was 'hoping' for a 200,000 to 250,000 unit first week.
Post edited June 02, 2011 by DClark
Posted June 02, 2011
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cbarbagallo: For one week of a pc exclusive from a niche developer, it's actually pretty decent.
No, it's not decent.
It's a fucking lot.
Posted June 02, 2011
they only needed 100k sold to make even :p so that is 300% pure profit :PPP
Posted June 02, 2011
For Zeus! The first take one year to achieve 1 M. Tw2 is out for some weeks.
Posted June 02, 2011
It took The Witcher 1, one year to sell 1 million, and that was after they released the Enhanced Edition.
so I think they are happy with 400k in the first week :)
Posted June 02, 2011
When will people understand that the developers don't get 100% of the game's price as income? CDPR only gets 100% of the price if the game has been bought via GOG.com. Otherwise, the developer gets the most part, just like record labels.
Also, Michał Kiciński said in an interview that as far as they know W2 is the fastest-selling PC game ever. Erm... WoW: Cataclysm sold 3.3 million copies in 24 hours.
Post edited June 02, 2011 by Khasim83
Posted June 02, 2011
hence "as far as they know"

*facepalm*
Posted June 02, 2011
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Khasim83: When will people understand that the developers don't get 100% of the game's price as income? CDPR only gets 100% of the price if the game has been bought via GOG.com. Otherwise, the developer gets the most part, just like record labels.
Also, Michał Kiciński said in an interview that as far as they know W2 is the fastest-selling PC game ever. Erm... WoW: Cataclysm sold 3.3 million copies in 24 hours.
Cataclysm is an expansion. You can't compare that. Especially not if it is needed as soon as possible to be on par with others. The quality could be shit the first 24h would still have enormous sales ;)
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