The Witcher 3 was originally released in 2015 and sold almost ten million units the year it was released. A success that has not torn to this day. Although no new content updates have been released since the add-on Blood and Wine of 2016, the roleplaying game about the witcher Geralt from Riva 2019 sold better than ever since the release.
According to statistics from developer CD Projekt Red, the game went roughly together on all platforms last year seven million times over the counter. 82 percent of these sales were made digitally.
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Why are so many people still buying Witcher 3?
The switch version is not the reason. Although the role-playing game first appeared on Nintendo's console in 2019, the version, with an estimated 800,000 sales, only makes up 11 percent of all sales.
The PC pulls the mark: The strongest driving force for the witcher is the PC. In 2016, he prevailed against Playstation 4, on which the game had been the most popular until then. In 2017, he broke the 50 percent mark and has been able to defend this status since then.
Above all, sales should make sure of that. Even if the sorcerer lavishly pays for his services in-game, there are often high discounts on the game. Accordingly, millions of copies are still sold. The recorded turnover for CD Projekt Red is likely to be lower than shortly after the release.
Witcher is a strong brand
Netflix creates new hype: 2019 in itself was another strong year for the Witcher brand. Especially the Netflix series with Henry Cavill contributed a lot to their success and, together with the Switch version, caused a sales increase of 554 percent. The creators take stock of this and not only announce a second season, but also an anime directly.
New milestone on Steam: On Steam, Witcher 3 has also passed the important $ 50 million mark. For the developer CD Projekt Red, this means that each time the game is sold on Valve's distribution platform, he has to pay less fees and thus receive a full 80 percent of sales.
2020 got off to a good start: The success did not end suddenly with the end of 2019. In January of this year, the witcher had a new success and for the first time recorded more than 100,000 players at the same time.
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What happens to the sorcerer?
Another game in the Witcher universe has already been confirmed. However, there are not many details at the moment. So far it is only known that it neither called "The Witcher 4", will still revolve around Geralt. To the delight of Dimi, who prefers to see the White Wolf in retirement.
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It will take a while until the next Witcher game appears. At the moment only a very small team is working on it and they are more busy with the preparations than the actual work. Only after the release of Cyberpunk 2077 does CDPR want to devote more time and resources to the new project.
