Cyberpunk 2077, regardless of all of its launch points and refunded copies, reportedly had the largest digital launch of all time primarily based on digital income and digital models offered.
As reveled by SuperData’s worldwide digital games market report for December 2020, Cyberpunk 2077 offered over 10.2 million digital copies, with PC accounting for round 80% of these gross sales. It is essential to notice that Sony removed Cyberpunk 2077 from the PlayStation Store in the middle of December 2020 following the performance issues that are especially prevalent on base PS4 and Xbox One consoles.
SuperData notes that these estimates do embrace the digital copies which have been refunded however that its “knowledge exhibits that refunds didn’t considerably have an effect on the sport’s mixture gross sales.”
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Cyberpunk 2077 helped digital recreation gross sales attain $12 billion in December, which is a 15% enhance year-over-year and made December have the very best month-to-month complete income ever. Whereas console earnings year-over-year jumped 16%, PC noticed a 40% enhance when in comparison with 2019.
SuperData additionally reported that Fortnite earnings on PC and console have been at their highest since August 2020 and participant numbers have been bigger than at any level since August 2019.
Grand Theft Auto V’s Cayo Perico Heist’s release resulted in GTA V’s highest month-to-month digital earnings ever, and though Among Us’ player numbers fell from November’s “roughly half a billion users,” it was nonetheless “2.8 occasions as in style because the next-popular recreation, Roblox.”
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Amongst Us additionally launched on the Nintendo Swap in December and is alleged to have offered 3.2 million copies, which made it the very best incomes model of the sport for that month.
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