![]() ![]() But basically, 95% of small/medium PC games just won't do as well on console because: ![]() “On these types of games selling less well on console, it is kinda a surprise to many, yes. should he be surprised, was this just a fluke with the particular genre he’s looking at, or is it more universal ? We said: This was true for the other games that we did estimates for, too. Yet even for this hit game, we estimate it’s sold >500,000 units on Steam, 50-75,000 on PlayStation, a similar amount (50-75k) on Xbox, and >100,000 on Switch.īut as you can see, Steam is stronger than all the consoles combined for this game, by quite a lot. One of those was Black Salt & Team17’s ‘spooky fishing adventure’ Dredge, which has been a pretty big/profitable hit for a smaller PC & console game. ![]() While doing some consulting recently, GameDiscoverCo calculated a bunch of ‘competitive game’ sales estimates for a client - for a range of nearly 10 small/medium sized non-AAA games, some of which had grossed many millions of dollars. Here’s the full list (Google Drive document) if you want to look for your own - or others’ - games.Īs for the above ranking? Nobody would be surprised to see Bethesda’s Starfield topping it while adding pre-orders, but major interest (at least on Steam) exists for co-op heist sequel PayDay 3 & citybuilder sequel Cities Skylines 2 - both of which started pre-orders - and Pinocchio-themed Souls-like Lies Of P (pre-order & demo!) We do that by looking at Steam followers (a public stat - ‘# of people who hit the follow button to get more news about the game’, it’s about 10% of wishlists) both at showcase time, and 18 hours after that specific showcase. And the first (above) is from GameDiscoverCo, and involves us looking at all 300-ish of these games that have a live Steam page, ‘before and after’. Well, never fear, since we’ve got two empirical methods of estimating interest in all of these announcements. ![]() How do you even keep up with the literally hundreds of games that got new/updated trailers as part of the multiple streaming showcases over the last few days? Besides going to sites like Games Recap 2023 and scrolling through its 6 pages (!) of videos? ![]()
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