Alan Wen, Saturday, December 12, 2020, GMT
Given that “Cyberpunk 2077” has received 8 million pre-orders, it is not surprising that CD Projekt Red has made money back.
Only by pre-sale, Cyberpunk 2077 All expenses have been recovered from game development and marketing.
The management committee of CD Projekt SA has confirmed this. A brief financial report stated: “The company’s licensing fees related to the pre-sale of Cyberpunk 2077 through all its digital distribution channels are estimated to exceed the total sum”, “Game-related development expenditures” and “Games borne by the company” Marketing and promotion expenses”
Or the rest of 2020 is expected. “
Mentioning that this only comes from sales in its digital distribution channels, indicating that all physical copies sold can be counted as CD Projekt Red’s net profit.
The sci-fi RPG has defeated “World of Warcraft: Shadowland” and became the fastest selling PC game in history, again based on data second only to pre-order data, of which PC accounts for 59% of sales, and the final number has not been added to the release date.
According to PC reviews, Cyberpunk 2077 is generally well received and currently scores 90 points on Metacritic. The 5/5 review of iGamesNews called it “a kind of RPG that blinks and passes hours, which is exactly what we need to end in 2020.”
However, console users may expect a different experience, as Digital Foundry has reported serious performance issues with Cyberpunk running on the latest generation of consoles. CD Projekt Red is constantly solving a series of problems and errors, and its latest patch fixes the brainbeat sequence that causes epileptic seizures in the game.
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