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The Witcher 2 Sales Approach One Million

[Aug 30, 2011, 09:53 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

The Warsaw Business Journal reports that CD Projekt RED has sold almost one million copies of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (thanks Gamasutra). Also, VG247 has word a playable demo will be coming to the Gaikai cloud service. The Warsaw Business Journal report has the company's financial results, and word that they will become exclusive distributor of Activision Blizzard games in Poland. Here's a bit:

CD Projekt Red (previously Optimus), producer of the record-breaking “The Witcher” and “The Witcher 2” computer games, reported a net profit of zł.20.4 million and generated zł.80.3 million in revenue for the first half of 2011, Parkiet reported.

Of the group’s many areas of operation, the gaming division provided the largest contribution to the result. In particular, The Witcher 2 game, released on May 17, proved a great success, with sales of 940,000 copies, out of which 200,000 were downloaded online by gamers.

The result was what the company had expected, Piotr Nielubowicz, CD Projekt Red board member, told Parkiet.

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Re: The Witcher 2 Sales Approach One Million

Aug 30, 2011, 11:41

Verno

Darks wrote on Aug 30, 2011, 11:37:
all the more reson why its confusing, all those who bought and loved the original, you would have thought it would have sold much better and faster this time around.

Again, they are long tail sellers, not 5 million units on release day type games. Witcher 1 didn't sell a million copies overnight either. The hardcore RPG market is fairly small when compared to FPS games and the like, you can't really expect similar numbers and rate of sales. I'm sure Witcher 2 will end up being just as successful as the first game, particularly after they release a directors cut version. A lot of the Witcher 1 sales seemed to come after the game was pretty cheap as well so I would think that 1 million sales at nearly full price is a good deal to them.




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