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[analog_future]

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The top 3, Baldur's Gate III, Hogwarts Legacy, and Starfield in particular are quite impressive. An indie game, a new videogame IP in a "fledgling" franchise, and a new IP altogether. Doubly impressive for Starfield considering it's a day one Game Pass title.


Also Lethal Company was made by one person. Absolutely insane numbers there.

Source

 

[Gamezone]

So almost only single player games. This makes me happy.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

Lethal Company is the real winner here. That game was made by a single guy, supposedly. 0 marketing. Released at the end of October. And still managed to make 52 mil. Crazy.

 

[xVodevil]

FC fuckin' 24 up there? Alright... that's about steam mixed review relevance right there
Good for the rest though .. maybe meh Jedi Survivor but hey whatever..

 

[Codes 208]

Lethal Company is the real winner here. That game was made by a single guy, supposedly. 0 marketing. Released at the end of October. And still managed to make 52 mil. Crazy.

Its gonna be the next phasmo or amogus in terms of pop culture relevance for indie games, thats pretty much garaunteed.

I still find it hilarious how much salt he got when people realized he was a furry

 

[phant0m]

Happy to see AC VI got that much love!

 

[Fbh]

Damn that Lethal Company dude is basically set for life, congrats to him.

Also still can't believe Kadokawa was actually underwhelmed by the AC6 sales. Like what the fuck did they expect? Niche low sale franchise is the 6th best selling game on steam but that's not good enough?

 

[Topher]

I like that top three.

 

[bender]

Lethal Company is the real winner here. That game was made by a single guy, supposedly. 0 marketing. Released at the end of October. And still managed to make 52 mil. Crazy.

Yep. I still think Sons of the Forest is the bigger surprise to me. Maybe I missed the hype wave and discussions.

The only game I purchased on that list was Armored Core. Super happy for its' success.

 

[Guilty_AI]

See Danjin44 ? AC6 was pretty popular.

Considering From games usually have close to half of their sales on PC, i think its safe to assume it made somewhere between 150-200 million dollars so far including consoles.

 

[Magic Carpet]

I bought Resident Evil 4 on my Quest 3. And Village on my Iphone. I'm about Resident Eviled out.

 

[Danjin44]

See Danjin44 ? AC6 was pretty popular.

Considering From games usually have close to half of their sales on PC, i think its safe to assume it made somewhere between 150-200 million dollars so far including consoles.

Glad to see, I hope they continue make AC games and I want DLC for AC6 like the kind of direct sequel/expansion similar what we got with AC on PS2 and PS3 days.

 

[Fart Knight]

 

[TheDuskwalker]

Damn that Lethal Company dude is basically set for life, congrats to him.

Also still can't believe Kadokawa was actually underwhelmed by the AC6 sales. Like what the fuck did they expect? Niche low sale franchise is the 6th best selling game on steam but that's not good enough?

That apparently was a translation error/misinterpretation. The thread we had on here even got updated after the "analyst" that "reported" that deleted his tweet.

 

[acm2000]

isnt this just using the vg estimates?

 

[analog_future]

GAF responding to the Starfield numbers?

 

[nial]

I'm pretty sure Baldur's Gate 3 is not an indie game? Larian has 6 locations around the globe and 450 employees.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Lethal Company, made by one kid (I think he's 21 years old) absolutely destroying the bloated AAA industry. You love to see it.

 

[rofif]

Who the hell buys starfield on steam with cheapass gampass.
Who the hell buys starfield at all

 

[Pop]

Look at all those dumbass PC players buying Starfield at full price

 

[Pejo]

Worth noting that BG3 doesn't even use Denuvo or other additional forms of DRM outside of Steam itself.

Take notice *cough* Capcom *cough*

 

[Shifty1897]

Alright, how many of you on here bought Cities Skylines 2 without reading a performance review?

 

[analog_future]

I'm pretty sure Baldur's Gate 3 is not an indie game? Larian has 6 locations around the globe and 450 employees.

They're an independent studio by definition.

 

[Jesb]

With how successful the RE4 formula was it’s odd they moved away from that formula with 7 and 8 and probably what 9 will be. There’s no doubt RE5 is next. Not my choice for the next remake but it seems likely.

 

[graywolf323]

isnt this just using the vg estimates?

yeah I looked at the report that is the source and they openly state these figures are estimates & they didn’t receive any data from Valve

Video Game Insights (VGI) is in no way affiliated with Steam or Valve.
All data provided in this report is freely available and can be shared without any restrictions.
All data provided in this report is based on estimates and should be considered as such.

Video Game Insights - Games industry data and analysis

VG Insights is for developers, publishers and anyone interested in video game market research. Providing 50+ datapoints per game for over 50,000 games!

vginsights.com

based on that they don’t actually have numbers for the games, they just have an algorithm that they think gives them a good guesstimate

 

[analog_future]

Who the hell buys starfield on steam with cheapass gampass.
Who the hell buys starfield at all

Lots and lots of people apparently. It's a great game.

 

[Flabagast]

They're an independent studio by definition.

So that means CDProjekt is an indie dev as well ?

 

[rofif]

Lots and lots of people apparently. It's a great game.

it's a what.
Sorry man... I lasted only 3-4 hours until I dozed off.

 

[Godot25]

So almost only single player games. This makes me happy.

Of course. Because that list only count games that were released in 2023. And I don't think that there were major multiplayer games released in 2023. Maybe The Finals but that game was released way to late to make a dent.
So for example even if Counter Strike/Apex Legends/PUBG made more money, they would not be included here...Which they probably did...

 

[nial]

They're an independent studio by definition.

The definition being...
(not trying to be petty, genuinely want to know, lol)

 

[tommib]

Super happy for AC6. Glorious game. From Software is anything but niche anymore. Men of culture are everywhere.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Larian has proven what's old is now new again.

 

[analog_future]

The definition being...
(not trying to be petty, genuinely want to know, lol)

The term "indie" simply means not-owned or funded by someone else. The term "indie" originates from being independent of a publisher/being self published.

 

[Spukc]

Lol starfield where is dave the diver?

 

[LordOcidax]

But GAF told me that Starfield failed hard… lol. JK aside, Single player games are the future, good to see.

 

[TransTrender]

Here's what this looks like when the scales are linear

 

[March Climber]

Well done, Mr. Kennedy.

 

[BennyBlanco]

it's a what.
Sorry man... I lasted only 3-4 hours until I dozed off.

Yet you played through the entirety of Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum and consider them to be good.

 

[Celcius]

I've literally never heard of Sons of the Forest...

 

[Rockman33]

Lot of people should be eating crow with those starfield numbers…

 

[Wildebeest]

I guess BG3 just had way more legs and good word of mouth than Hogwarts.

I want to add a snide ironic joke here about how the greedy revenue split and returns policy makes steam a place where devs can't make honest money, but I'm too tired to think of one.

 

[M1chl]

Starfield, sigh

 

[Mibu no ookami]

That's great for Starfield until you realize that Skyrim did a billion dollars in its first 30 days... largely driven by PC revenue.

Starfield was a flash in the pan. No one is saying it didn't sell ANY copies, but it certainly didn't meet expectations. It dropped off the charts almost immediately, whereas Bethesda games tend to have legs.

Doing 76 million dollars more than Resident Evil 4 remake isn't a lot to boast about. Also not sure that VGinsights is accounting for Diablo 4.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

That's great for Starfield until you realize that Skyrim did a billion dollars in its first 30 days... largely driven by PC revenue.

Skyrim was the 5th mainline entry in 2+ decades old franchise, of course it did better. Skyrim wasn't on Gamepass day one. Skyrim was on PlayStation. And so on.

 

[Fake]

Thats is a decent list. Impressive.

 

[Fermbiz]

Starfield!

 

[Ozriel]

Skyrim was the 5th mainline entry in 2+ decades old franchise, of course it did better. Skyrim wasn't on Gamepass day one. Skyrim was on PlayStation. And so on.

Oh, he knows all that. Even knows RE4 released 5+ months before Starfield.

 

[Alexios]

How do they measure this, especially for the big games that have all kinds of DLC and some very differently priced versions on top of not revealing their sales numbers? Just check SteamSpy and average it out or what? Seems like we need an "according to x" disclaimer added to the thread title tbh.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

Skyrim was the 5th mainline entry in 2+ decades old franchise, of course it did better. Skyrim wasn't on Gamepass day one. Skyrim was on PlayStation. And so on.

Being a mainline entry in a franchise doesn't guarantee you sales.

Starfield had every opportunity to build off the foundation of Elder's Scrolls as this was heavily marketed as the Elder's Scrolls in space.

I love how GamePass is now effectively being argued as a reduction in revenue, something we all knew from the get go.

You're basically making an argument to get rid of GamePass and go multiplatform. And so on.

Oh, he knows all that. Even knows RE4 released 5+ months before Starfield.

Yeah, because we don't know that the majority of revenue comes within the first 3 months post launch, especially for a title like RE4.

 

[rofif]

Yet you played through the entirety of Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum and consider them to be good.

Not played Immortals yet.
But Forspoken is 100% one of best 2023 games. It it infinitely better in every aspect compared to starfield.
It actually plays good and is enjoyable.
it's a huge shame people buy this shite and not pay any attention to games more worthy of it