Digital Bros, the parental company of 505 Games, has shared its Q1 2019 financial results. According to Digital Bros, there was a significant revenue growth in the first quarter and improvement of all financial metrics. This revenue growth was mainly thanks to the performance of both Control and Bloodstained.
In case you’re wondering, the first quarter of the company’s financial report does not cover the sales of the first three months of the year. Instead, it covers the sales of July, August and September.
What this means is that in its first month, Control generated €17.7 million. After all, Control came out on August 27th. This is without the additional income that Digital Bros received from Epic Games for releasing the game exclusively on EGS. On the other hand, Bloodstained sales amounted to €5.5 million.
Digital Bros has also stated that it expects to generate lifetime revenue in excess of €50 million from the PC version of Death Stranding. This basically means that the company expects to sell from 834K to 1 million copies of Death Stranding on the PC.
It will be interesting to see whether the sales of Control will increase over the next few months. Will it be a financial flop or a commercial success? Will 505 Games give the green light to Remedy for a sequel or a new game? Moreover, it will be interesting to see whether Death Stranding PC will meet Digital Bros’ expectations.
Stay tuned for more!
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So weird in this day and age to see actual concrete figures in terms of game revenue from actual publishers (or in this case, the parent company of) instead of rough estimates from third parties.
BloodStained is such a underrated gem, as for that big name trash, it deserves to fail and burn.
Bloodstained really is incredible isnt it? I wasnt disappointed for a change.
You should play Curse of the Moon, it’s not only a prequel to Bloodstained but pretty much a modern Remake of Castlevania 3.
Underrated? The game was a success both critically and financially. Its not underrated, it got the recognition it deserves and will probably be in many Top 10 Best Games of 2019 lists.
How was Bloodstained Underrated? The game is a metroidvania that managed to be a success on a platform that isn’t really known for those types of games. It also got great reviews from publications.
Its rated, and it was liked by many.
Yea i really dont think DS will sell a million copies on PC. The game is boring as hell, I got to one good part in ch4 or 5 and it only lasted 20 min then it was back to delivering boxes again. I hate this game and Im very thankful for my buddy whos letting me play his copy while hes on vacation.
Control? That tech demo?
i hope death stranding flops on pc and stops selling on ps4. such a boring,tedious game that would have been panned had it not been for kojimas name.
Completely agree
I Remember ppl B.tching about MGS5 not having more story in it cuz they focused on gameplay……..
Now pp B.tching cuz Death stranding focused on a story not on gameplay…..
I say nothing about the game until i tried it
-mgs v story sucked and it was too repetitive
-imagine a dumbed down simplified gameplay like mgs v but with more walking around and delivering things
-every review praising say its as low paced repetitive grindfest
-nonsensical story that kojima himself has no idea wtf it is about because he is a hack and he pushes globalist politics.
No thanks.
how people dare to have fun with thing i do not have fun with! grrr! i’m mad!
It obviously is much better to get call of duty 16, isn’t it?
Preach it! Kojima is a f*cking hack who’s supposedly turned to insulting American audiences and how they apparently aren’t intellectually superior to European and Japanese audiences who can understand his video game, and how they apparently love FPS games despite some of the publications giving Disco Elysium and higher score which is actually and intellectually profound game in its writing and story themes.
Kojimbles thinks he can cut it in Film, oh boy do I have news for that delusional bas**rd.
Does he really think the people who booed David Lynch movies will somehow not see his work as being derivative and completely convoluted bullsh*t for people to do the pointing and head because I’m smart meme once they figure out the twists they couldn’t see coming from ten miles away?
Hideous Kojima, as Worthabuy referred to him as in his fabulous review of the game, lol!
No wonder that Konami used to keep Kojima on such a tight leash if this is the pretentious dreck he comes up with when left to his own devices.
Seriously, it’s the funniest thing in the world to me. After all the hate Konami recieved post MGS:V release, they somehow ended up being right.
They were right to keep him on a tight leash and not go full bore towards pretentious horsesh*t, and no matter what people say about MGS:V, they were also right to tell him to stop wasting money and time and release the d*man thing. He was having people complete cutscenes that were very long, and then scrap them.
If I was to hire a choir, spend days recording them, and then ultimately throw out everything I’ve recorded and not use it for an album I was working on, I’d be rightfully fired to.
It’s ultimately Kojimas fault for the state of game we got, the storyline we got, and the fact that Ground Zeroes was ultimately a significantly smaller but far better MGS game.
I’m fully confident that the Silent Hill game he was making would also have been terrible had he been left to his own to make it, he caught lightning in a bottle with PT but PT, much like Ground Zeroes, was a tiny slice of a project which is why it was so good. It couldn’t be the convoluted bullsh*t he thinks he can make.
Hear, hear. Perhaps the most shocking thing is that IGN stood apart from the crowd with their review of Death Stranding and got it right!
…and the art critics from the fly over states have spoken. Four post oh utter nonsense and stupidity. Stick to Nascar, COD and Ernest films guys.
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Death Stranding might be boring walking simulator, but the fanfiction quality of the dialogue is going to make the cut scenes hilarious.
control sales are not great. They are in fact disappointing.
and I expect to get a ferrari in the next 24 hours. you can have unrealistic expectations for free, after all.
Wow, did not realize Control bombed this hard.
I may have bought this one, but Epic did the dirty .. CONTROL [FitGirl Repack]
Epic, make piracy great again.
Control making nearly half of the possible income of the ultra popular and totally intellectually profound, so profound Americans wouldn’t understand it, work of Kojimbles is pretty good stuff.
Considering it’s a game that’s made by a person that’s not a complete and total celebrity with cult like followers and also isn’t a complete and total hack who hasn’t made a good game since MGS3, and isn’t on the same level and more than likely didn’t have anywhere near the same budget but still pushed out a really awesome video game that wasn’t trying to be anything else than exactly what it was.
control is not selling great, just better than 505 games usually do, which dont sell well.
Will get the steam version of death standing and play using trainer to speed up exploration…
Apparently I am in the minority but death stranding is awesome, the way terrain works and inventory management are fantastically fleshed out systems, plus its always nice to play a game free of microtransactions with tons of unlockables and upgrades earnable through just playing the game a reasonable amount of time.
so the game sold only around 5 million??? because epic paid more than 10 million for exclusivity! if so it well deserved, is it better to loose fan base over quick cash grab?
nope
What a travesty if that garbage game called Death Stranding generates over 50M€.
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