Remedy’s Thomas Puha has announced that Control has sold over two million units worldwide on all platforms. Furthermore, November was Control’s best selling month, even though the game came out 15 months ago.
My boss just revealed in the @remedygames CMD stream that the past November was Control's best selling month (15 months after launch). In total, Control has sold over 2 million copies to date.
— Thomas Puha (@RiotRMD) December 9, 2020
Control is a third-person action game, set in a unique and ever-changing world that juxtaposes our familiar reality with the strange and unexplainable. In this game, players assume the role of Jesse Faden (Courtney Hope), the new Director struggling to regain Control.
Control is using the Northlight Engine supports both Ray Tracing and DLSS 2.0. Remedy has used real-time ray tracing for reflections, contact shadows, diffuse global illumination and transparent reflections.
To be honest, I’m really happy about the game’s sales. I really enjoyed Control and it was one of the few games that took advantage of Ray Tracing. It was also one of our Best Looking PC Games of 2019.
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Nier automata with that fat azzed hot robot sold 4 million. took this trans chick in a game a year to reach barely a mil and then they had to give the game away
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Control’s protagonist isn’t a trans, but yeah, she could use a fat azz.
that was the joke – her jaw is as square as 2b’s azz is round.
She is a man with t!ts with a upgraded male jaw and schizo personality. Trans would pretty much relate to her.
spot the ugly virgin.
im moderately attractive, though it has been awhile since i was inside some snizz bro….so long bro….
yeah sure, sure.
Maybe but Control has better gameplay/story/graphics while Nier Automata is gay at those things.
Nier is gay at patching the game. I dig her a$$, but her gray hair is a turn off.
I LOVED Control, in fact I still play it just to destroy stuff and admire the graphics. However, I would disagree that it has a better story. Gameplay is definitely different and I enjoyed both immensely so I can’t really compare and graphics are, definitely, better in Control. But story wise I think that, again, while very different, Nier’s was very good and depending on how much and how deep you played the game it just kept getting better. With all the different play throughs and different outcomes it’s definitely got more going for it and it’s all pretty good quality as well.
Yeah, both games hold special places in my heart and both games do a lot very well but Nier will always win out in terms of just pure character and story quality and development.
When did they give the game for free?
sold it for 40 bucks and gave all their DLC away for free.
Soooooo…not free?
yeah DLC and expansions all free for you bro, with just a small 40$ donation
So what?
If GTA V sold one hundred trillion copies, every game that has a car have to sell the same amount?
Your comparison is just stvpid!
wat
What?
Yikes
No surprise here, these are copies that the game sold on Steam and GOG.
yeah they sold it at like half price, included all the DLC and still barely cracked a few mil 2 years later lol
thats not much. Funny how psx games sold so many million copies and now modern game that cost 10-20 times more sell less than half as much.
Seems AAA gaming is dying especially in the west, indie games will have to be made in the east from now on, in poorer countries at lower costs
It’s perhaps dying when it comes to creativity but man they’re still selling very well, this one just had a bad start because of Epic exclusivity on PC, and really awful performance on consoles, but if some crap like AC Valhalla can reach top charts then AAAs are still a thing
People like him just sell copes and wishful thinking, it’s the same tired cliche nonsense i have heard for 10 years already from people who actively desires the industry to “die”, “AAA games are dying, video games are gonna crash etc” with nothing to show up for it.
Because there’s just nothing to show, some games fail and some of them succeed like it has always been, in fact gaming profits never stopped growing since the NES, the real question is : Is this really good and healthy ? I don’t have the answer, i just ask for your thoughts about this
“in fact gaming profits never stopped growing since the NES”
Yes, but conservatards like Durka argue otherwise. Even his PSX examples are bs, Control would easily be on a PSX best seller list, just not on the top.
“the real question is : Is this really good and healthy ?”
It’s just a matter of perspective, if i’m profiting from it, yes, if this makes me miserable, then no.
I mean for the industry in general, if it keeps being less and less creative and still getting all the money they want, do you think this is good for the future of AAA games in terms of quality ? I don’t think so
who is selling very well?
AAA games
not really, few select do, most flop
And yet the only news of AAA games flopping i hear from a long time was Avengers (after selling 3 million copies or so).
“Funny how psx games sold so many million copies”
Nope, barely a few psx games sold copies to match the sales of Final Fantasy 7 or Gran Turismo, and those games sold 10 million copies at best.
“Seems AAA gaming is dying especially in the west, indie games will have to be made in the east from now on, in poorer countries at lower costs”
AAA gaming is dying lmao, and yet you don’t have a single bankruptcy to show for it.
Imagine if they’d sold their game on Steam/GoG, instead of just on EGS for a year…imagine the money they could have made.
at least EGS gave them upfront payment to help Remedy mitigate some cost, and as long as the devs happy with the deal, I didnt gave a damn where they put their games as long as its on PC, I can live with EGS , Steam and even better GOG.
Well they didn’t get my money, and another deal with EGS means I won’t be buying from Remedy ever again.
“imagine the money they could have made.”
I can’t really imagine because the devs don’t especify if they got more money with the EGS deal.
Game of the Year, Ran great on my 3090 with ray tracing and physX 100fps!
This will considered as a failure if EA,Activision, Ubisoft or Square ENix the publisher, and there wont be Control 2 or any fund for Remedy to create their games ever again, they will be dissolved in a year while their crew helping other devs in the publsiher machine
apart from crappy performance,the game was excellent.
DLSS can help if you’re on RTX, also try medium settings with textures on high if you have a Pascal GPU
I am on 1080ti but anyway the game quality of visuals just doesn’t justify the low fps.
I’m on GTX 1080, 1080p res, everything on medium except the textures, AF and AA + Reshade and never saw the game going under 60 fps, i had slowdowns when i was on High but Medium is just as good visually and performs better
My R5 2600 + GTX 1060 runs this games fine on DX11 mode, with mixed medium and high settings, it fluctuated betweem 45- 60 FPS @1080p , and with my Freesync monitor that fluctuation have very minimal impact on smoothness. If you didnt use RTX avoid DX12 mode because its crappy
Thanks man i tested whatever settings i could and no raytracing but it had bad performance.
I’m 100% anti-SJW/feminism but I loved this game, it’s a brilliant masterpiece with an incredible narrative and atmosphere. Well deserved sales
The SJW elements are not that “in your face”, even the ME trilogy leaned more left than this game, all in all it has so much qualities to compensate
There is SJW substance and SJW style, this game leans more towards style, with the characters design, plot allegories (kinda obvious message they got with a female protagonist assuming control and fixing the company after the male director and chief scientist screw everything up), and last but not least the ugly black bada$$ female mary sue.
“even the ME trilogy leaned more left than this game”
True maybe, but ME gives renegade choice with a chance to kick the SJW society by the balls from time to time. Not many games let you punch reporters and allows you to be racist from time to time (racist towards aliens i mean).
Racism towards aliens is not that brave and risky lol, and i don’t think punching a reporter is anti SJW, it all depends on the reporter’s orientation.
As for Control, i agree for that female black character who leads the special forces, it’s for me the most obvious SJW element in the game, as for the main character taking control, we saw this plenty of times in the past in a different context and it was all normal, even Lisa Su was able to fix AMD, Lara Croft was able to continue her father’s work, and Kate Archer brilliantly replaced a bunch of dead male agents in NOLF, whatever the message behind this, it’s hidden enough so i just chose to make my own idea of it without thinking too much about it as it’s something likely to happen in real life unlike a Twitter b*tch leading the special forces
“Racism towards aliens is not that brave and risky lol, and i don’t think punching a reporter is anti SJW, it all depends on the reporter’s orientation.”
I think bioware planned to make ME plot as a choice between exclusive pro human vs alien alliances but ended up distancing themselves from this theme but they ended up chickening out on this quite divisive approach (maybe lack of money).
” i agree for that female black character who leads the special forces, it’s for me the most obvious SJW element in the game”
The most obvious element doesn’t negate all the small elements that makes the game current year.
“as for the main character taking control, we saw this plenty of times in the past in a different context and it was all normal, even Lisa Su was able to fix AMD, Lara Croft was able to continue her father’s work, and Kate Archer brilliantly replaced a bunch of dead male agents in NOLF”
With the exception of the AMD case, which i don’t know the details, all these examples happen in fiction, and fiction molded and influenced by more than 100 years of feminist history.
” it’s hidden enough so i just chose to make my own idea of it without thinking too much about it as it’s something likely to happen in real life”
I tought it was quite obvious, specially with one of her final monologues saying she won’t screw up like the previous director and things will change etc.
And regardless if it can happen in real life, that’s not the point of fiction, the point is moralization/demoralization in the story and it is quite obvious who are the characters that are moralized and mary sue’d into oblivion (female scientists, black woman, female protagonist) and the ones with flaws aka demoralized (former director, former head scientist, the damsel in distress brother and other male NPC’s that often show their weakness and vices). You just choose to ignore those aspects out of bias for the game.
“You just choose to ignore those aspects out of bias for the game”
Maybe, maybe not, maybe you’re the one choosing to see this your way out of bias too, all i know is that when you want to see something you’re going to see it, the fact is that i don’t give a damn as the game is good, just like the ME trilogy, Terminator 1 & 2, the Alien series, it has enough substance to let me smoothly ignore all this stuff, i’m not butthurt either, i wont melt just because there is woman replacing a man in a fictive universe.
Most people have seen or played a lot of feminist driven movies and games for years without noticing sh*t, the difference now is that there are a bunch of people actively telling them what’s right or wrong and they follow the trend and act like they know everything
“the fact is that i don’t give a damn as the game is good”
“just like the ME trilogy, Terminator 1 & 2, the Alien series, it has enough substance to let me smoothly ignore all this stuff”
So you purposefuly ignore “all this stuff” and then tries to imply that i am the one “seeing more than it is already there”? Despite the vacuous acusation, i get your point, you ignore or wave away the game’s propaganda so long as the game/movie is good. I have the opposite approach, the more quality a movie/game has, the more attention i will give towards their propaganda, messaging, etc.
Not an accusation, keyword is “maybe”.
We’re full grown adults i guess, propaganda is not dangerous for all the people at the same level, and if someone gets trapped in it so easily so maybe he deserves to be brainwashed after all. Some COD episodes have a very obvious military/right wing propaganda in them, but this didn’t make me join the army, i can choose to take the entertainment out of this and ignore the message, it’s that simple
“Some COD episodes have a very obvious military/right wing propaganda in them, but this didn’t make me join the army”
COD is not just a army recruitment drive, it’s also meant for shaping up perception of countries hostile to US interests. Just a while ago, a libertarian commenter in this site praised the new COD thinking it would have a “anti-statist message” just because you fight USSR communists. Unfortunately, he seems to be oblivious to the fact that US state is one of the most bloated states in this world, with a trillion dollar military budget. You can say COD is bad, repetitive, etc but you can’t deny they do good propaganda. How do you feel about countries such as Venezuela, Russia, North Korea, China, middle east, etc? Chances are your beliefs about those countries are in sync with the military advisors that worked in these games…
“and if someone gets trapped in it so easily so maybe he deserves to be brainwashed after all.”
So you don’t care about young minds being brainwashed but is concerned about the industry “creativity”? Curious…
“young minds being brainwashed”
In a 18+ game ? It’s their parents fault not the game, it’s like all this “videogames make people violent” sh*t, i don’t believe such power in the entertainment media exist, but i do believe in people stupidity and weakness
“How do you feel about countries such as Venezuela, Russia, North Korea, China, middle east, etc?”
They’re countries like any other, i actually travel a lot and was raised in a third world country before going to France and spend most of my life there, so i’m actually more open minded than you think, if i choose to not support China with my money it’s mainly for 2 reasons, the Uyghur genocide and then a less serious issue, the fact they’re pushing for Mobile/MP/MTX/F2P games, not because some redneck in the US said China is bad, and keep in mind that if i hate their government i don’t hate their people
“i don’t believe such power in the entertainment media exist, but i do believe in people stupidity and weakness”
Isn’t that the same difference? If you want to come out and say that corporations can be entitled to exploit people’s stupidity and naivety just come out and say it.
“not because some redneck in the US said China is bad, and keep in mind that if i hate their government i don’t hate their people”
It’s def not rednecks saying that China is bad, they are just parroting what they learned from authoritative sources, and i don’t buy the “hate their government not their people” line, specially in China or countries with high government approval.
They approve because they have no choice, that’s not a democracy, maybe be this is once again what the authorities want us to think and even then, i have no issue with their people.
All people around the world used to think we were approving our government in my native country too until a massive protest happened and the world knew the truth
Oh so because China is not a western style democracy, their citizens can’t say if they like it or not. Ok, sounds like COD and the media infotainment complex have done it’s job making up your own mind on this issue.
“All people around the world used to think we were approving our government in my native country too until a massive protest happened and the world knew the truth”
Which country? You realize a lot of countries are worse off once “massive protests” happened right? Ukraine, Arab spring, Syria, I could go on…
“Oh so because China is not a western style democracy, their citizens can’t say if they like it or not”
Exactly, freedom of speech is just impossible in some countries and i know what i’m talking about, i was born in Algeria and i know people who were shot just for doing honest journalism during the civil war in the 90s, but i know it can be difficult to some western people to believe this as freedom of speech is so natural for them, but yeah mister westerner go on and teach me about dictatorship while sitting comfortably on your couch.
Go ask those people who were beaten up in Honk Kong during the protests, and those people who vanished trying to warn people about Coronavirus, you’re either naive, ignorant or just incredibly pretentious
“i was born in Algeria and i know people who were shot just for doing honest journalism during the civil war in the 90s, but i know it can be difficult to some western people to believe this as freedom of speech is so natural for them, but yeah mister westerner go on and teach me about dictatorship while sitting comfortably on your couch.”
Dude, currently the west is jailing and torturing journalists like Assange or forcing whistleblowers in exile like Snowden, then you come to tell me that western society doesn’t kill/imprison journalists or dissident types? Thanks for the laughs buddy, now go play coup simulators like Ghost Recon or COD and tell me with a straight face that these games doesn’t shape your beliefs.
“tell me with a straight face that these games doesn’t shape your beliefs”
Lol, that’s the dumbest assumption someone made about me, as military shooters are not even my cup of tea and i never played them for story except perhaps Spec Ops The Line, all their military/political plots are just ridiculous and laughable at best, i was just telling you above that i only take the entertainment out of the games i play, and i don’t condense war whatever it form or goal, there’s no such thing worse than war. Anyway you have the right to think whatever you want mate but you’re not great at making assumptions
“Dude, currently the west is jailing and torturing journalists like Assange or forcing whistleblowers in exile like Snowden”
Never said western countries are perfect, the US especially, but for someone who saw the two sides of the coin i can assure you that when i left my stomping land, it felt like a time travel to the future, you have to experience the abyss to be aware of that as everything seems normal for you, I’m not speaking about people being imprisoned but headless corpses thrown in the streets as a warning for the people who dare to show any form of opposition.
“I’m not speaking about people being imprisoned but headless corpses thrown in the streets as a warning for the people who dare to show any form of opposition.”
So you are just talking about poverty/violent ridden countries vs developed countries then, it’s not like developed countries that protest too much about human rights abuses even try to uplift poor countries, they even cozy up to tyrants so long as they do their bidding, which btw is interesting to observe, since so few games will try to put you up against friendly dictatorships.
I I totally agree on this one, but i never portrayed the west as a protagonist, i just said that the Chinese government is doing ethnic cleansing, thus making them and the countries that condense this behavior the bad guys of the moment, that doesn’t mean i’ll just close my eyes if it was another country doing the same thing, i just hate the idea that my money is going to a company (Tencent) close to the responsible of this crime, and it’s not COD who told me that, i don’t even think that COD or any western game can dare and have the balls to portray the Chinese as the bad guys nowadays, so there’s no chance i can be brainwashed to hate China through games lol
“i just said that the Chinese government is doing ethnic cleansing”
They are not, and while we are at it, check the birth rate of western countries and how they plan to solve that problem with replacement level immigration.
“that doesn’t mean i’ll just close my eyes if it was another country doing the same thing”
Yeah, except you do.
” i don’t even think that COD or any western game can dare and have the balls to portray the Chinese as the bad guys nowadays, so there’s no chance i can be brainwashed to hate China through games lol”
True, nowadays it is conservative media doing the brainwashing against China, there was a brief period where devs dared put China in their games, like Operation Flashpoint or Kane & Lynch, but they pretty much gave up on it due to monetary concerns and fear of China locking out their market to them.
“Yeah, except you do”
And how ?
Because i don’t think nobody base every buying decision on strict ethical standards, and even if they do, they will still screw up from time to time, it’s not just money companies launder, they do it with ethics as well as a way to buy influence.
Yep, but i try my best
Yeah, as I say elsewhere the agenda themes in this game, if there even were any, were so light that I didn’t really notice anything.
I found it boring, not scary for a horror theme game (just like Alan Wake in this regards), only liked the tech engine, physics and such.
I guess this is suspense, not terror?
Not even that, just a shooter, even Max Payne 1 have more suspense and scary moments despite being just a shooter.
Agreed.
But it’s a solid game anyway. I loved it, the art design, the plot connecting it with Alan Wake’s universe… Really good game imo.
What i really liked in that game was going to a office and wrecking it to hell with guns and stuff, didn’t care much about the plot just like i don’t care about Alan Lake’s.
I agree. While it might have had some agenda-based themes I never really noticed them and I’m pretty anti-SJW and notice it plenty in other mediums. I just saw this as a character that happened to be a woman that does some badass stuff while trying to fix the problems caused by others. Yes, they were white men that caused these issues but is that trying to say something or do they just happen to be white men? That’s how I looked at it. I really don’t have an issue playing as women or women being main characters in games. Hell, most games that have the option I go female and I’m male. Why? I dunno, I guess growing up with Lara Croft and being impressed by her escapades makes me enjoy something about a woman not being typical and kicking some a*s? Doesn’t have to be pro-LGBT or pro-feminist either, Lara Croft I think would kick most of those types a**es too. She didn’t need feminism to be who she was.
So that’s how I saw Control. Wasn’t really a message more than it was just what it was. Now, was the main character being a woman a conscious choice by the developers? Maybe, but again I don’t think it made any difference.
Great game and sold pretty good for its kind, imo.