SuperData has shared its monthly report, stating that Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC found meek interest on Epic Games Store. Red Dead Redemption 2 came out exclusively on Epic Games Store and Rockstar’s launcher in its first month.
According to the report, Red Dead Redemption 2 sold 408K units as a first-month exclusive on the Epic Games Store. SuperData noted that these figures pale in comparison to other exclusive launches like Borderlands 3. Speaking of Borderlands 3, Gearbox’s title sold 1.78 million units in its debut month.
Furthermore, and according to Steam Charts, the game has sold so far between 200K and 500K copies on Steam. Now there is a possibility that most PC gamers bought RDR2 on Rockstar Launcher instead of EGS or Steam. Still, it will be interesting to see whether its PC sales we’ll increase over time.
In other news, consumers spent $9.5 billion digitally across all games in November. Combined spending across console, PC and mobile was up 5% compared to the same month last year thanks to a 20% year-over-year increase in mobile spending.
Lastly, here are the top selling games for PC and consoles in November 2019.
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They deserved those poor numbers… Such a bad decision not to release the game same year as the consoles and not only that steam version was delayed too with a high price tag…
Well no shiet rockstar always treat PC players as trash, thats why I never liked them or support them at all.
most key sites sell only “rockstar launcher version” on epic store game is sell full price
408K hahahaha not only that imagine spending money on a chinese launcher LOL
24 million dollars made.. JAJAJAJAJA so funny.
Could’ve been a lot more and will be now JAJAJAJAJAJA so funny.
The morons that purchased it on Epic are still using the Steam forums for support…
Epic, make piracy great again.
Well its true since they dont even have a forum lol
if i was valve im *not* gonna be ok with that
1. I call BS.
2. Even if it is true, that number will not change much now that Steam version is released.
It’s reported that it sold better on Epic than Steam.
It’s reported that it released more than a month later on Steam than EGS and Social club sooo…..
How many via the RS launcher and Steam releases? I’m sure those numbers will reflect where user loyalty stands.
It did worse on Steam according to a WCCFTech article.
There was literally no reason to buy it on Epic yet 400k people were ‘smart enough’ to do so. Same goes for the steam users. You’re just slapping another DRM on top of another – why? Get it on Rockstar Games Launcher and live with it. Steam users can’t even use the inbuilt overlay due to rockstar’s intrusive DRM. Game’s a mess overall.
The reason for that is that a lot of people prefer to have all their games in one place. GOG Galaxy takes care of that but not many people use it.
Are people not aware that desktop icons exist?
No one should give a sh*t which shop they buy their games from yet it’s the most vehemently defended subject on this site. These people aren’t real gamers.
You’re ignorant AF. You’re not a real gamer.
Where you buy your games from absolutely matters more than the games themselves. Buying from Epic is a clear message that customers are okay accepting barely functional, feature-less stores owned by hostile CEOs and Chinese investors who don’t even hide that all they care about is money. We are not okay with it. What you do affects all of the rest of us and your casual, selfish, cheapskate garbage attitude of not caring about Epic’s corporate behavior or their CEO shows that you’re complicit.
Valve isn’t perfect but they’ve been the best company in the industry for 2 decades for a lot of reasons, and Steam is most of them.
That doesn’t mean you have to buy your games on Steam. Most people don’t, because the Steam store is rarely the best priced. But you can buy Steam keys anywhere.
I can safely say I definitely own more games than you across all systems and I’m a “real gamer” and this absolutely matters to me.
A desktop is only so big and not everyone wants a cluttered and messy desktop full of icons. The more icons on a desktop, the harder it is to see what you’ve got.
simple on key stores game is only for rockstar launcher !
https://www.allkeyshop.com/blog/buy-red-dead-redemption-2-cd-key-compare-prices/
Might as well spend the extra $10 and buy it directly from the store.. Unless you’re a brokedick.
As low as possible for Cockstar.
Sad to see Nintendo in only 2 of those results for consoles as the PS and Xbox are useless boxes when one has a PC, least Nintendo gives someone a different experience.
Rockstar how about you port the first red dead game?
Edit i thought CS:GO was free now?
Yes, But other titles in the list are too.
Lol.
Let me know how I can legally and effortlessly play Ninja Gaiden 1, 2, 3, or Dante;s Inferno – games which I digitally and physically own on Xbox – on my PC and we’ll talk about how my Xbox is useless.
By not caring about doing it “legally”
Or by actually dumping the roms and using a emulator.
What did you pay for those old games on the store anyways?
Lack of single player games on that PC list is hilarious…
absolutely no reason to buy off the Epic Fail Store. The only reason EGS shills use that store is the 12/88% split and using the R* store they get 100% and don’t need 2 launchers running LUL
408k motha***fk**s, they are the enemies of PC GAMING , go to hell u fools!!
Competition is the best thing for PC gaming, period.
A game being locked to a single storefront because of an exclusivity deal is not competition tho.
Yet no one complained when Steam was the only option? Doesn’t make any sense to me.
Now that we have two real storefronts we actually have competition. It’s just the stores are now competing with each other as to who gets the games in the first place, and Steam is losing.
Steam should step up their game.
This has nothing to do with “competition”… Like said by Ge0force
How is WoW still relevant, jesus, goddamned addicts.
Well Counter Strike even more so.
Same goes for Crossfire. Nobody talk about it anymore but yet still raking in a lot of cash. Must be China money.
SuperData fails to mention RDR2 was not an Epic store exclusive when comparing to Borderlands 3.
Most people bought this from the Rockstar Launcher indeed.
Very good numbers for the EGS indeed, considering all the 3rd party key stores were selling keys solely for the Rockstar Launcher.
You think? Under half a million sales on a highly anticipated game? Na son, that’s poor.
That’s not true, Humble sold Epic-keys (and still do).
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/eae9a545d808a9070ae9dbdbb1e5741f3df7abae2b6311570f09201df54e7563.jpg
Wow, shocking. It’s not much different than companies trying to force people off their longtime favourite cable provider, or internet provider.
Do these morons actually think most people are just going to shrug their shoulders, and be dictated where they can shop, against the norms of the past 15 years?
I don’t care that EGS exists. That isn’t the problem, that it just merely exists. If they were to stop with this exclusivity bulls**t, I would be far, far less hostile against them.
Why don’t you try EARNING your customer base and loyalty for a change, instead of trying to strong-arm them in to being forced to use your garbage storefront, you arrogant f**king a**holes?
In any case, glad to see garbage numbers for them. F*** EGS.
because that’s impossible lol.
It’s not impossible.
Literally all they have to do is stop the BS and keep with the free games and they’ll poach enough casuals goign to their platform over time with the free games that people will start buying there instead, as long as EG starts selling more than 30 games.
You have to take into account the fact that most PC gamers, no matter how hardcore of a gamer they claim to be or that they’ve been a Steam user for 16 years, don’t actually buy games. I’m not saying they pirate They may buy a game or 10 but they aren’t doing it regularly.
You have people with accounts since 2003 who have 53 games on Steam. These are the people, some of them, going “Hurr durr launcher” because it means nothing to them, they don’t buy anything in the first place.
If they achieved feature parity, even on the most basic level, with Steam then all they have to do is do things Valve doesn’t or is too slow to do.
People act like the fact that Steam is the best means they’ve always been the best. They haven’t. Steam in its current state only got to this level 5 years ago. For the first ten years, it was just as barebones as EGS was. It improved significantly each year but let’s not act like it was a fast process. It wasn’t. The facts are in the changelogs. If you use the scrollbar you can see every single patch Steam has ever had dating back to September 2003 and see just how slow they were to implement features.
GOG earned it so many people would rather buy off GOG when given a choice..
disqus is really screwing up lately
Top Selling.
Puts a top earning list….with csgo as free to play title in it.
Of course it’s PC sales will increase on Steam over time.
Not shocking, especially since it had some launch issues. Then when it hits steam it was basically Christmas and everyone was either broke or buying stuff on their sale wishlist.
Id expect sales to pickup after the holidays when people recover a bit. I don’t see it ever selling like gta5 but that’s because you only needed to buy it twice instead of 3+ times like GTA. I bought gta on 360, PS4, xb1 (cause that’s where friends were) and then PC. RDR2 I bought on x1x and PC. No need to buy it anymore times.