Death Stranding has sold over 10M copies
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Kojima created something special with Death Stranding. Well deserved success.
Waiting a bit to make a new run with the Director's Cut.
Great stuff. Great to see the industry embrace innovative and varied games. They keep asking for something different most times, when it comes they usually crucify it. Yet, DS was a game which pushed boundaries, relative to story, gameplay and graphics. I guess it's simple, you have a higher chance of succeeding if the quality of your game is maintained across all it's individual parts.
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I love that people were shitting on the game for being a flop and then it goes on to sell 10M copies. DS2 will probably be even more successful.
It includes subscriptions... it is wrote in the pic.
That is why I'm guessing sales around 8 million or so... maybe even a bit lower.
Yeap... not sales... players across PS4, PS5, PC and free access part on subscriptions (PS+ and Gamepass PC).
Just to add the last milestone was about sales.
Over 5 million in March 2021... if you account the time after that and new subscriptions services the sales are indeed around 8 million.
www.gamesindustry.biz
Over 5 million in March 2021... if you account the time after that and new subscriptions services the sales are indeed around 8 million.
Death Stranding has sold five million copies on PS4 and PC
Death Stranding has sold through five million copies worldwide on PS4 and PC, developer Kojima Productions has said. Sp…
www.gamesindustry.biz
The Director's Cut has been a flop, so I doubt it's moved the needle considerably from 5 million figure reported a year and a half ago.Just to add the last milestone was about sales.
Over 5 million in March 2021... if you account the time after that and new subscriptions services the sales are indeed around 8 million.
Death Stranding has sold five million copies on PS4 and PC
Death Stranding has sold through five million copies worldwide on PS4 and PC, developer Kojima Productions has said. Sp…
Between additional Steam sales and shit, I'd expect lifetime sales to have grown to 6 million since then, with the remaining 4 million coming from subscription services.
The normal game sold on Steam around 2M copies of the main game and around 200-400K of the standalone Director's Cut (I assume there was a DLC to upgrade, but can't see it now because they removed the original game from the store).
The game was also available in other PC stores like Epic, GoG or now in the MS store. So maybe it sold around 2.5M copies in PC alone. Console exclusive AAA games traditionally sell on console several times more than in PC, in many cases between 4x and 6x times. Even if we take a super conservative approach and consider that DS+DSDC sold around 2x more on console than in PC, that would mean around 7.5M copies sold, and to reach the current 10M users we should add 2.5M users from PS Plus and GP. And will continue selling a bit more across time.
So Death Stranding must already be the best selling Kojima game ever (as I remember, the previous record was slighlty above 6M units sold) not a flop.
Not sure about that... the game sold over 2 million on Steam alone that brings the sales to 7 million.
IMO I believe my around 8 million is probably very accurate.
Directors cut was like a 10$ upgrade wasn’t it? I can’t remember what I paid. And then there’s it being featured in PS Extra.
Totally muddies the waters. Not in a bad way tho.
Players are different than sell thru. Sold is different than shipped. You could ship 5 million and sell shit like E.T. for the 2600 and then be forced to bury unsold copies in the desert.
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You won’t know until the sequel. And what I mean by that is… if those 10 million players enjoyed it; the sequel should theoretically have a bigger launch than the first.
Same goes for TLOU2. If a good amount of players legit disliked it; a potential third game would see a tamer launch.
Sometimes you gotta wait and see… heh
Totally muddies the waters. Not in a bad way tho.
Players are different than sell thru. Sold is different than shipped. You could ship 5 million and sell shit like E.T. for the 2600 and then be forced to bury unsold copies in the desert.
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You won’t know until the sequel. And what I mean by that is… if those 10 million players enjoyed it; the sequel should theoretically have a bigger launch than the first.
Same goes for TLOU2. If a good amount of players legit disliked it; a potential third game would see a tamer launch.
Sometimes you gotta wait and see… heh
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The 5M figure from March 2021 already accounts for both PS4 and PC sales up to that point, so a good chunk of the lifetime PC sales (north of 2M, y'all are right on that) is already included in that initially reported figure. Considering the very frontloaded commercial performance of Death Stranding, as well as the fact that the PC version had already been through a couple of Steam's seasonal sales up to that point, then I think it wouldn't be crazy to state that a majority of the PC sales happened before April of last year.
As we all know from looking at the various sales charts from all around the world, the full game release of the Director's Cut didn't do big numbers at all, barely moving the needle when it comes to new units sold. On the other hand, the $10 upgrade path for existing owners was relatively successful and popular, but I doubt those would count as actual sales.
So that's why I believe that a figure in the ballpark of 6M, or 6.5M being generous, would be more accurate.