CD Projekt Red Apologizes For Hiding Base Console Performance- Offers Refunds

[Chazore]

SvennoJ said:

One year it outsold consoles by 3%, in numerical units. Overall, consoles are still ahead and I would wager that consoles still made CDPR more profit than PC sales. Anaway, just over or under half, cutting out half your revenue is never a smart idea.

Going public does explain the pressure to release. They should have been able to continue on the revenue generated by TW3.

I dunno. People forget that CDPR have their own store, where they make 100% of the cut, compared to the 30% they lose from everyone else. The sales in total still tend to be favoring PC. I mean, this very forum was talking about W3 sales like a year ago, and back then PC was still pulling ahead. 

When broken down for total sales it goes:

"Leading the pack is the PC, which has sold 12.4 million copies. Next is the Playstation 4, which has sold 10.8 million. Third is Xbox One, which is responsible for 4.3 million. Combined with the Nintendo Switch, that results in The Witcher 3 selling 28.3 million copies so far"

That wasn't only in 2019 kind of sum up, that's for all of W3 in general, when number crunched to the latest date of recording, which means W3 did sell the most on PC by 12.4 million. At least a good portion of that will also be 100% profit made via GoG (Bought my copy on GoG as well).

I just don't think it's in the cards to suggest consoles>PC in terms of profits, because when we look at it that way, why bother with selling to PC gamers at all when consoles are just of a greater size/value?.

Also, if it helps, CDPR were recently bending the knee to China, in regards to censoring the game for the PC version in China, and we're seeing all sorts of companies bending the knee to China, because there's big money to be made there, well, in China, PC is their main meat & potatoes, and likely where a lot of the pre-orders came from, that CDPR was boasting about recently.

They should have been, but when you're PLC, you answer to shareholders. They should have stayed private like Valve, where they could work from their own pace, and not some git's checkbook.

Last edited by Chazore - on 17 December 2020