It is really sad thinking about game sales figures.

How much a restaurant may charge for a dinner? 20$ for two.

How many customers would they get a night? How much each server would sell?

Then how much do they pay their workers?

Pick that and compare it to a game company.

p.s: I still work in a restaurant.

It wouldn't be hard to get Preorder numbers and the Digital Download numbers. As to open Retail sales at release, that could be a bit more problematic, but could give you a pretty fair idea when you total them all together.

If Witcher 2 is only selling 166K copies on 1st week then to reach 1M copies would be the life cycle of the whole product.

Seems it's doing worst than TW1 then.

Except it doesn't reflect digital sales

Fail.

vgchartz doesn't include digital sale so it should be taken with a grain of salt. And we all know that quite a good part of TW2 sales is digital.

In case people didnt actually read the first page of the thread ( a crazy suggestion, I know), I believe CDP was claiming 200,000+ activations as of last week.

Nope, doesn't include digital. Also doesn't include the figures for Americas for the time being, just EMEAA.

VG Charts calls up a few retailers, tracks popularity based on forum accounts and google statistics.

It's not accurate whatsoever but it is a somewhat reasonable ballpark figure they come up with.

Also both NPD and VG Chartz do not track download sales.

Clueless, Pc games get the bulk of their sales digitally, and from what I have read its selling as good as any Pc game in awhile. Outselling TW1 but a fair margin.

Judt EMMA alone thats HUGE for a PC game where retail is almost dead.

212,229 according to VGChartz in the first week. That's pretty damn healthy, especially considering that's not including digital downloads (the total sales figure might be as much as 350,000). With word of mouth and the reviews, I don't think it will have an issue passing 2, maybe 3 mil by years end.

I think most people buy a digital copy these days. sales must be at least half a million (I hope)

Will cdprojekt ever release official sale figures?

They can easily track the amount of activations but with GOG copies not having any and many people (myself included) immediately using GOG's files to remove DRM from their retail copies or Steam copies ...

Also there is people that haven't activated their GOG copy yet. I'm waiting for the old witcher 1 accounts to be available again and as of patch 1.1 I'm not missing out on the DLC or features so I'm in no hurry to activate.

I don't think you can compare TW2 sales to other recent titles, as it's a) PC only (for now) and b) GOG is a major factor. Many people I know got it from GOG to directly support CDPR. We'll have to wait for official numbers from CDPR, which should be announced on June 2nd.