A couple of days ago, we informed you about The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt selling one million copies on GOG Galaxy. As we claimed back then, the overall PC sales were – according to our calculations – at least 30%. Well, it appears we were right on target.
As we said back in our article:
“This means that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt sold, at least, 1.8 million copies on the PC. This basically means that the minimum percentage of the PC sales – compared to the total sales – is 30%. Again, this is pure speculation as we don’t have the full picture here.”
CD Projekt RED’s Karolina Gnas stated a couple of days ago that by the end of June 2015, 30% of the sales were on the PC. This basically means that PC felt slightly behind current-gen consoles (unless PS4 is outperforming Xbox One).
Furthermore, from the game’s total sales, 75% were from retail and 25% were from digital.
Do note however that due to the higher royalties that come with retail sales, that 25% (digital sales) amounted to half of the game’s overall revenue.
Thanks WCCFTech
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25% digital sales = 50% of profit
They’d have 100% from PC if we got the promised graphics and delayed console versions to downgrade them.
It has nothing to do with that. People play this game for the story and regardless the visuals are amazing.
PC will keep on selling for years and years but console sales will be dead by next year. This is just how it works as the space for older games gets occupied by the newer shinier releases. Digital console game prices are way to expensive that you would have to be a moron to buy console games digitally unless you have no other choice.
with all those lies combined with the TERRIBLE performance it has( only losing to Batman AK, don’t even try to “it runs fine on my PC” BS), i’m not surprised at all. plus they made quite clear that consoles was their main focus.
> TERRIBLE performance it has
It has terrible performance on PS4, on PC game optimized just fine)
What GPU you have?
Graphics in this game should be able to be played fully without AA with a 200$ card with 60+fps. Water looks like clay no tessellation makes it look like a 2008 game in ways the only thing I think is good is the character designs facial expressions
It runs fine on my PC.
Perfomance is great fi you have a good pc. I played 3 weeks after release. Evrything maxed 1440p DSR on my core i5 2500k 3,3ghz 12 gb ddr 3 1600 mhz gtx 970 g1 gaming 4 gb. It worked well. Not slowdowns or crashes now slow movements et.c. Pe
agree on PC runs worse than Batman AK or on the same level as that!
in special on Kepler GPU’s that not even today they didn’t release not even a single patch or driver update to fix that problem “even they claim BS”!
If you ask me you need at least a GTX 980Ti to enjoy Witcher 3 at 55-60 FPS/1080p while the visuals remain decent to good.
Then how come I can max it out (50 – 60 fps ) with all its bells and whistles on my GTX 970 ? Stop being so butt hurt about Kepler performance. The diference between the 700 series and the 900 series in really big.
not really !
look at the other games that are on market or better look at UE4 and CryEngine performance where Kepler its a beast on those not to mention Mad Max and MGSV TPP
TW3 its a console port that its made to run good on Maxwell and thats it!
as for GTX 970 you need to bring down a lot a settings for 50-60 FPS in TW3
Mad Max is a very optimized game, BUT its graphics are well under those of TW3. Metal Gear Solid 5 is locked at 60fps, and my 970 sits at around 60% usage to get 60fps at 1080p. Even a 760 pushes 55fps at 1080p. Kepler couldnt be a beast in this game even if it wanted to. Both of these games have way inferior graphics than TW3.
And no, I don`t have to bring anything down to get 50-60 on my 970. So don`t lie to yourself. It’s slightly OCed tho. I`ve noticed you complain in about every Witcher 3 post you see. Being a PC gamer this is one game you actually should praise for the features that you get. By the way, you`re more than welcome to show me an UE4 or Cryengine game that looks better.
i will show you Crysis 2 runing over 60 FPS and working better and looking 100x better than that ugly console game Withcer 3 #30FPS .
and btw MGSV its not locked to 60 you can unlock it very easily i am playing it at 90 FPS 1440p extreme high- with high shadows.
Frostbite Engine ,Cryengine and Unreal Engine 4 all run extremely good on my end because they are optimized for PC too but sometimes when console engine like RED Engine are out on the market you need at least a i7 5960x and GTX 980Ti/TITAN X to simulate it thats how bad its optimized TW3 because graphics wise look from 2011!
GTX 970 OC’ed or not you can’t have 50-60 all maxed out in special in battles. i know this because my best friend has i7 4790k and GTX 970 so….stop being a liar and console fanboy created by CDPR gipsy RED
Damn.. I guess you really are hopeless like other users in other threads said. “Graphics wise look from 2011” LOL. And I`m not lying, no reason to.
GTX 970/i7 4790 has 35-49 FPS on max settings 1080p TW3
graphics on Withcer 3 yea they look 2011 as for optimization its worse than Batman AK and Unity put it togheter and thats a fact and also the truth not some CD Projekt fanboy lies “the game runs fine” LOL Haha its like saying Ubisoft its the best gaming studio for PC gaming in 2014-2015!
LMFAO im getting 60 fps stable with everything maxed out (vsync on, hairworks aa x2). Its a well optimized game and if you have trouble running it then your using a potato. Or something from the sh**ty kepler series.
“Do note however that due to the higher royalties that come with retail
sales, that 25% (digital sales) amounted to half of the game’s overall
revenue” holy sh*t. and yet we still get 60$ digital games..
Now that CD Projekt’s gotten their money hats from consolers, it’ll just enable them to be even more console focused. I imagine they’ll become like Epic Games, and I wonder how long it’ll take for PC gamers to despise them. I wonder if GoG alone will be able to carry their reputation, or if would they have enough haters like Steam and Valve currently do.
nah, although PC was only 30% sales it will have been a LOT more money in their pockets. They will not pay any third party money for sales on GOG and that will be a huge bonus.
console games coming on sales nice what can i say!
what your 680 cant handle a real game?
yes it can’t handle console ports.
to simulate a console game its pretty hard you need at least a GTX TITAN X or GTX 970 SLI
the only console port that actually does run better than TW3 its Batman AK(max) but i guess its much easier to simulate and run other console games.
Thats funny because most people have no trouble running it. Its probably that you never tried to run it and are only throwing hate at it for the sake of throwing hate 🙂
i have it on GOG since day one so…. 😐
PS: i regret buying a console port game
But but console sales were needed to finance the game, otherwise the game wouldn’t have existed in it’s current form. What a lie though, pretty sure CDPR would have made their money back and profit just for a PC version, especially since they make a ton more from the GOG version.
They gave console users a sub 30fps experience on lower than low PC settings as well LOL.
they said they needed consoles to make this game happen but chances are they would sell nearly the same if they only made it on PC without any need to consolize the game or downgrade it but w/e. i highly doubt they completely become console focused any time soon. first because they are still young, many young companies tend to be PC first at least for a while. second because they have GoG and it seems it has potential to rival Steam unlike Uplay or Origin that mainly serve as a Ubi or EA library.
worst optimized console game of the year !! i have GTX 970 and i7 4790
if the fanboys of TW3 keep saying that this game its good optimized bs i am gonna shot you down like i did with JFK
Considering the game had no DRM it has done really well. I doubt it would have sold as many on consoles if there was a pirate-able version available for those. I dont think this is the full story either, with all the digital buying options available to PC gamers there are probably many PC sales left uncounted.
Yeah and some might have not bought it yet after the whole debacle with the downgrade/console focus and the lie – we don’t downgrade, you can have the same stuff visually in game, bla bla bla.
#SteamFtW