![]() ![]() ![]() On PlayStation and Xbox, there are just hordes of people who mainly see these consoles as FIFA, Fortnite and Call Of Duty machines. 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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