Apparently Baldur's Gate 3 has sold 5.2 million copies or close to 6 million on Steam according to the Belgian Embassy in China

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The game has sold 5.2 million copies on the PC game platform Steam, with more than 870,000 concurrent online users and a 94.3% positive rating.
- On Metacritic, a site that collects reviews, Baldur's Gate 3 is already the eighth highest-rated game of all time, with an average rating of 97%, and the highest-rated game since 2010.

Don't know if translation is accurate from site but if so great numbers!

Also more data for steam!!! This says 6 million for steam.

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Quick stats as of today​

532k​

active players (61 min ago)

616k​

active players (24h peak)

94.6%​

positive reviews

$283m​

gross revenue

6m​

units sold

73.7 hours​

avg play time

44.8 hours​

median play time

 

[anonpuffs]

I speak chinese, the translation is legit. Can't verify the identity of the poster though.

3rd party sites reporting on the story

Btw it's still peaking >600k CCU on weekdays on its 3rd week of release. That's unheard of for a single player game.

 

[Gods&Monsters]

I was expecting way more with 3 years early access and almost 1 million concurrent players. 7-8 millions minimum.

I guess sales on Steam are smaller than we think if an all-time top 10 hit only sold 5 millions.

 

[Vertigo]

I speak chinese, the translation is legit. Can't verify the identity of the poster though.

3rd party sites reporting on the story

Btw it's still peaking >600k CCU on weekdays on its 3rd week of release. That's unheard of for a single player game.

Is it? Elden Ring and Cyberpunk were no slouches either

 

[anonpuffs]

Is it? Elden Ring and Cyberpunk were no slouches either

Good call on elden ring, that game retained players very well. But cyberpunk's launch was a shitshow and by the 3rd week it had lost 2/3 of its players.

 

[Gamernyc78]

I speak chinese, the translation is legit. Can't verify the identity of the poster though.

3rd party sites reporting on the story

Btw it's still peaking >600k CCU on weekdays on its 3rd week of release. That's unheard of for a single player game.

Thnks.

 

[Kokoloko]

Good call on elden ring, that game retained players very well. But cyberpunk's launch was a shitshow and by the 3rd week it had lost 2/3 of its players.

Hasnt Cyberpunk made a comeback recently?

 

[ethomaz]

Is this official or just these "owners" estimates that sites do using Steam data?
Because these estimates are very innacurate after Steam limited the info in the Steam API.

 

[anonpuffs]

Hasnt Cyberpunk made a comeback recently?

Nah it's been done and gone

 

[ethomaz]

I was expecting way more with 3 years early access and almost 1 million concurrent players. 7-8 millions minimum.

I guess sales on Steam are smaller than we think if an all-time top 10 hit only sold 5 millions.

Early accesss were just 2.5m.

About Steam... you can take that from official data from others games around 40% are Steam and the others 60% are consoles.
Like a game with 10 million... around 4 million will be Steam.

 

[SLB1904]

I though we passed that steam database bulsshit but I guess not

 

[Nomen_Nescio]

Still, digital only on PS5. Was thinking on potentially buying it, but now that I know this, fuck that.

 

[Yurinka]

Doing the quick Steam reviews x 25 estimation method, says around 5.048.375 so yes, 5.2M units sold on Steam alone is very likely specially considering that some players take their time before making their user review.

Hasnt Cyberpunk made a comeback recently?

Yes, its users reviews were very bad at launch and improved quite a lot: 78% positive. Doing the user reviews x 25 estimation method it sais that Cyberpunk 2077 sold around 15.7M units on Steam. You have to add there GoG sales, console sales etc.

 

[Remember_Spinal]

A hardcore CRPG selling like god of war is a pretty amazing feat

 

[ethomaz]

Am crazy to think this game will have a better Circana September than Circana August?
A game know for it roots on PCMR hitting the peak on PS5

 

[Remember_Spinal]

Am crazy to think this game will have a better Circana September than Circana August?
A game know for it roots on PCMR hitting the peak on PS5

It might end up being #3 after new FIFA* and MK1

 

[ethomaz]

It might end up being #3 after Madden and MK1

In September or August?

Anyway what I mean is that the game will have a rise in sales in September compared with August... like up MoM.
That only can happen with games with splitted releases.

 

[Remember_Spinal]

In September or August?

I mean to say FIFA/FC

 

[Yurinka]

I was expecting way more with 3 years early access and almost 1 million concurrent players. 7-8 millions minimum.

A very tiny % PC only games sold 5M units, way under 1%. And out of the ones who achieved it, many of them needed way more time to achieve that.

 

[ethomaz]

A very tiny % PC only games sold 5M units, way under 1%. And out of the ones who achieved it, many of them needed way more time to achieve that.

Take in mind that the numbers of actual PC gamers are smaller than consoles gamers combined.
People have the ideia because there are over 1 billion PCs in the world all of them are used for games... and that is not the reality.
The PC gamer market is very similar to PS console market in terms of size.