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Really? I'm not surprised. The brand has been in decline. The UK/Europe(English-speaking) and NA are Xbox's classically strong markets. The console is basically a shell in Europe, Switch has been taking its share in the UK, and Xbox is not a thing in Asia. So, NA is probably driving the Xbox share split. I think we would see something similar or close to it with Hogwarts legacy
Witcher 4 launching on what Xbox?
the Asus ROG Xbox Ally, of courseWitcher 4 launching on what Xbox?
Tbh unit chart would had been a bit different as release timing are a bit different ~
would be a bit more difficult since they'd be selling a whole new port. no reason to pass on a version of the Next Gen update with RT. maybe a paid update?
But the revenue in the later years is substantially lower that launch where the splits are closer. So it's not taking 80% of the titles sales.
it'll be fine undocked. the game is leaps and bounds over when it first launched, especially for Steam Deck
I was laughed at when I said it would sell more than 40 millions because it had « horrible legs » completely discarding the incredible longevity of every CD Project game (which all released in worse states than CP77)
Sure, but don't forget that it managed to sell whatever it did at a full price for quite some time despite being a 5 year late port and despite it being available at significant discounts on all other platforms. Also, had it been cheaper it would have quite probably sold far more units, so revenue share might have still ended up similar.
You're not making much sense here at all. The game is not even that old and is still selling millions each year and even much older games sell millions each year.
But Switch did constantly have AAA releases Hogwarts had to compete against. Those same game franchises that in the past some developers used as an excuse not to put their games on Nintendo consoles, because "they couldn't compete against the major Nintendo games"...
It doesn't need elevating. The graph clearly shows that porting Witcher 3 to Switch had a significant impact on the game's revenue in its later years.
Same. Iknew it was a success on Switch, but better legs than i thought
And you are coming to this conclusion based on year 9/10 sales of the witcher 3?
There's a wrinkle to this in that Cyberpunk has refreshed its engagement on PC on multiple occasions through fairly high profile activity: adoption of new RT/image upscaling technologies (it remains a poster child for high end RT), and Steam Deck verification. I'd say that the higher share of DLC sales on PC is because it is still seen as a "current" game because of this extended support.
Some curious data between unit sales and revenue (images shown by CDP a few years ago).
It seems the average price on PC for TW3 was much lower than on consoles, also that this was not the case for Cyberpunk, probably as Steam discounts aren't as aggressive as they were 10 years ago.
Cyberpunk's revenue on PC being higher than sales might be partly because of refunds on consoles back in 2020, but also because of the new's Steam tax system changed in 2019 (that didn't account for sales previous to that year) from 30% to 20% for games making over 50M $ (and 25% for games making 1M $)
Also interesting how PS5 almost doubled revenue with the complete version which probably raised the game's price, it seems to be better for companies to not make so aggressive discounts over the years.
Which shows in Cyberpunk, the game's revenue is higher over the years than The Witcher 3, while Cyberpunk's lowest price was 27€ four years after it's release, The Witcher 3 was already 3x times lower (9€)
It seems Witcher 3 on Switch has kept its higher price point compared to the other platforms, given that it consistently sells less on Switch than on other platforms but still net them more revenue per sale than the Xbox sales do.
Some curious data between unit sales and revenue (images shown by CDP a few years ago).
It seems the average price on PC for TW3 was much lower than on consoles, also that this was not the case for Cyberpunk, probably as Steam discounts aren't as aggressive as they were 10 years ago.
Cyberpunk's revenue on PC being higher than sales might be partly because of refunds on consoles back in 2020, but also because of the new's Steam tax system changed in 2019 (that didn't account for sales previous to that year) from 30% to 20% for games making over 50M $ (and 25% for games making 1M $)
Also interesting how PS5 almost doubled revenue with the complete version which probably raised the game's price, it seems to be better for companies to not make so aggressive discounts over the years.
Which shows in Cyberpunk, the game's revenue is higher over the years than The Witcher 3, while Cyberpunk's lowest price was 27€ four years after it's release, The Witcher 3 was already 3x times lower (9€)
