CD Projekt Red has released its latest financial charts, and revealed that The Witcher 3 sold more copies on the PC than all consoles combined in 2019. This is huge and shows the long legs of PC games, something that a lot of companies have acknowledged over the last few years.
As we can clearly see, the PC platform is the most successful one for The Witcher 3 these past couple of years. Surprisingly enough, in 2015, the PS4 sold more copies than the PC version. Then, in 2016, these two platforms were equal. However, in both 2017 and 2018, the PC was able to surpass PS4. And, in 2019, the PC sales of The Witcher 3 are more than all of the console sales.
My guess is that this graph includes all of the special discounts that CD Projekt RED has offered. Thus, this most likely includes the GOG Special Sale events. What this basically means is that PC revenue percentage does not equal to the PC unit sales percentage. So yeah, keep that in mind while looking at this graph. Nevertheless, it’s at least good knowing that the game keeps selling well on the PC. Well… at least when it comes to unit sales.
In similar news, CD Projekt RED has reported 521 million PLN in 2019 sales revenue. This is around 124 million US dollars. Moreover, this number is 44% higher than CD Projekt RED’s revenue in 2018.
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Makes a lot of sense, new consoles holiday this year and anyone buying for a current one probably is going 2nd hand
It’s well known that the majority of peasants only buy trending games
all thanks to the NETFLIX’s adaption as a webseries to boost the sale in 2019
Constant sales on both GOG and Steam also helped.
There was CLEARLY a spike in 2019.
That’s a lot of BS.
The Netflix series is an abortion, a disgrace for the books and the games.
1st – This is not a webseries
2nd – If the show was what introduced me to The Witcher, i’ll never buy the game nor the books
3rd – It’s Netflix and that d*ckhead author of the books who should thank the games
PC sales is what continuously funds CDPR, but after tasting the short term reveune from consoles, we’ll never see another PC focused games from them ever again.
They’ll all be built with consoles in mind first from here on out.
Can’t be, everyone knows Denuvo is the only thing that sells games, right AAA trash publishers?
According to $ony peasants: PC is a “platform of cheating and hacking” HAHAHAHA!
Console drones in general say that.
But that’s ESPECIALLY from $ony peasants, Xbox fanboys (from what I’ve seen) in general are more friendly to PC because PC is also from Microsoft.
the console market is dying lol
Consolevirus? Console19?
They’re just salty because CDPR made them wait well over 6 months following the launch of The Witcher III for a patch which improved performance to a more stable 30fps from it having frequently run at 20fps courtesy of double-buffered v-sync. ?
A performance patch that, as documented by Digital Foundry, downgraded the game’s graphics on PS4. ?
All while their loved Sony ports PS4 games for PC. gotta love those tears.
The same will happen for Cyberpunk 2077.
No, it’s a heavily SJWed and dumbed down shooter. PC sales will be less than RDR3 Epic store sales.
Cyberpunk 2077 has more pre-orders on PC than consoles.
It seems Xbox audience is very different from the from PC and PS4. Now it is clear why Microsoft makes only shooters.
But but but we are all a bunch of filthy pirates…………
P-PC Gaming is dying!
P-PC Gamers don’t buy games…
And has free DRM too. ( no denuvo )
Great, now bring HDR to the PC version. Thanks
I remember when CDPR justified the downgrade with platform parity…well, there you go.
Having a pc and being able to mod your games is almost essential today. You have to fix every single game that is released. Just look at Resident Evil 3 Remake and Mount and Blade 2. You cannot even trust people to translate games correctly. Is it really surprising to hear that pc gaming is rising?
Witcher 3 one of the best game everrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Agreed. I even love the first 2 games and own all three of them. Been playing them since the The Witcher 1 came out years ago and own the special edition nowadays.
But,The Witcher 3 is the best of the trilogy and one of my favourite games of all time.
Better not downgrade Cyberpunk 2077 because of consoles, you got no excuse now, PC has good sales
Too late. The delay is specifically because of consoles. It’s being downgraded at this very moment
only with epic store the piracy is right ahahha
And yet they dumbed it down for console/controller crowd. Dodge dodge hit, dodge dodge hit, repeat till the enemies die
If you’re in a battle and is not immortal, than the process will always be the same, dodge then hit. Dunno what you’re complaining about.
Sorry meant to say that the combat is really boring. Like any dodge hit dodge hit combat is
try a turn based rpg then. wait all that is is taking turns attacking each other. you might not like those either.
I like turn based like Xcom or FFX
Understandable.
;D
While the combat is the weakest part of the game (you can be creative enough to have some variety at least) is miles above any western RPG combat out there…or you think Skyrim’s combat is good? not even mods can improve it.
witcher 2’s combat feels and sounds vastly superior compared to 3. when you kill human npcs it really feels and sounds like you’re cutting men in armor down. compare that to witcher 3 which sounds like you’re cutting through paper.
the most boring, repetitive and visually unappealing combat system i’ve ever seen in a video game after dark souls.
Gotta agree, i remember being more difficult too, with way more subsystems and complexity (for a console game). Still, felt a lot more janky than 3 (which is also janky, but an improvement in that feeling).
Witcher 2 was great, it had an identity mostly because of its artstyle…Witcher 3 being more mainstream looks and plays in a more generic way.
if you watch early gameplay trailers, based on how geralt fights, you can tell that they weren’t going for this lock into nonsense combat system. they changed it for peasants and controller f4gs who adore dark soul’s awful combat system.
hmm I don’t remember the sound effects changing that differently in those game.
Never said that :p. I like Skyrim tho but not the combat
Is miles under Witcher 1 tho.
Well deserved.
Good games will always sell.
you have witcher 1 avatar, how can you call witcher 3 a good game?
It’s simple, I’m not a spoiled kid.
^^
what does being “spoiled” have anything to do with this?
When you’re a brat you tend to whine about things that doesn’t make sense.
Like that.
doesn’t make sense? do you lack brain capacity or do you get butthurt because someone disagrees with you? which one is it?
But but..
“pc gaming is dead”
every single console peasant
PC gaming is dead to console gamers. They don’t have the motivation or in some cases the aptitude to learn about PC hardware to build their own rig or to learn about the hardware in prebuilts plus they are used to MS and Sony dictating to them what they may and may not have in terms of quality and performance. Console gamers are in their comfort-zone having MS and Sony make decisions for them such as when to upgrade by getting the latest generation console.
Ye and by deciding which games from the past they’re allowed to play and in what form.
ALSO, THE MODS.
This, even with the crappy tools and support from CDPR the great mods out there keep the game alive 5 years after release.
PC version:
Mods
Great graphics
Controller support
Keyboard support
Isn’t it funny how, when a developer makes a great game, players buy it in droves, and the developers don’t seem to be impacted by the supposedly rampant piracy on the PC platform?
Good games sell amazingly well on PC! Who could have known?
I hope this motivates CDPR to put even more emphasis on the PC market come CP2077.
They literally delayed CP2077 because consoles could barely run it.
And? Are you suggesting that if they put more emphasis on PC, they should release a console version that can’t even run?
They’re a multiplatform studio. That’s never gonna change to going PC exclusive.
However, I just hope that if they had to modify the game (optimize, strip down, or otherwise) to get it running well on console, it didn’t affect the PC version (unless it’s an optimization that doesn’t impact fidelity).
Yeah you’re right but imagine without piracy how many copies of this game CDPR would have sold…twice? triple? Who knows?
Actually not much more. The thing about pirates is that 90% of them simply can’t afford the games they pirate.
So if it was impossible to pirate TW3, CDPR wouldn’t be getting much extra sales.
I’m fact, if TW3 was impossible to pirate, they probably would’ve gotten significantly less sales, since they would have had to include a very strong DRM for that to be possible. CDPR’s firm stance against DRM is one of their most attractive traits and they would lose a lot of their customers loyalty if they went that route.
soooooooooooooooooooooo mod tools?
Make a complete great game sell for years. Other developers with not selling sh**ty games as service: Surprised Pikachu face. Then CDPR added free dlc, where other developers would ask 5 dollars a piece. And then CDPR Checkmated every other developer adding 2 Expansion size of the other developer games. Really hope they will keep the same standard with games. They showing customers that there is a better way. A beacon.
The boost the netflix show gave it in 2019 is really impressive. I know CDP was happy heh.
Even in 2018, the PC sales was more than all of the console sales!???????????????
So…did you do the math? 54% in 2018 man….and tied in 2017
b-but without denuvo it wont sold well.
“B b but sir! PC gaming will be dead in a few short years!” – circa 2007