Shovel Knight has sold 1.2 million copies, 1 million sold digitally (Details inside)

[Barozi]

Nautilus said:

Barozi said:

dozens of millions? Where are you getting those numbers from?
The game is $15. At 1m digital sales that's $15m plus 200k retail at $30 ($6m). $21m in total of which both the platform holder and the retailer is getting a big share.

It's common for popular and/or great indie games. Obviously not for all indie games. But take a look at Steam Spy and see how many indie games since the release of Shovel Knight sold more than a million. Then remember that these are only PC sales.

21 million plus the sales from the amiibo.Even with the retailers/platform share, it is most likely above 20 million, so dozens still apply, according to the grammar XD.

Yes yes, it certainly should have sold more and there are a few indie games that manage to sell this much in a shorter time, but the way you were speaking is that Shovel Knight performance was weak, which is in no way true.

it's nowhere near $20 million. Again they have to share the revenue with both Nintendo and a retailer. Amiibos are what? $13? With 200k shipped that's "only" $2.6m in revenue.

Steam and Microsoft get a 30% cut, which is pretty much standard. So that would be $10.5m for Yacht Club Games plus a ~50% cut for the retail version ($3m) plus let's say again 50% for the amiibo ($1.3m). $14.8m at best. Calculation was done with the full price of the game, but it has been discounted before. Also doesn't include any development costs of the initial game, ports and DLC.


I never said or acted like they were weak. It just angers me that far worse games (like Goat Simulator) have sold much more.