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Shiken on 09 April 2020

Played and beat the entire game on both PS4 and Switch. Great game and well deserved success in my book.

Also great to see the Switch version with strong sales in just 2.5 months. When compared to how the game did on X1 during its first 3 months, it becomes clear that it launched just as strong on Switch. This is impressive considering the higher price tag and the fact that the game was 3 years old. It is good to see hard work and pro consumer practices, such as full game and dlc in physical release, pay off.



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curl-6 on 09 April 2020

It should be taken into account that in 2019 when the Switch version launched at full price, you could get the other versions for a fraction of the cost.

At any rate it's nice to see another third party success story on Switch, especially when it's such a well deserved one.

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Kai_Mao on 09 April 2020

Echoing everyone talking about the Switch version of The Witcher 3.
Pleased with the support from the consumers interested in the game, considering it had basically everything in the cart, no compromises or need for extra downloads BS.
Its not a port I expect all the time, but the effort level when it comes to porting a game on Switch is what I expect. It's worked the same way with Dragon Quest XI S.



ironmanDX on 09 April 2020
ironmanDX said:
Cyberpunk 2077 is going to be massive...

Maybe, or not.

We can't forget that, even thought CD Projekt Red has earned a well deserved reputation of making quality games, Cyberpunk will be a big departure from The Witcher. It has a completely different setting, a completely new combat system, with guns and not swords, and it's a first person game unlike Geralt's.

Sure, most people won't find any troubles with that, after all Bethesda has been making first person rol games for years with great success, but just because it works for them it means that it will work for CDPR.

It will. Witcher 3 is the 3rd game in the series. How often do we see such an explosion of sales at the end of a trilogy? How many of those that bought the Witcher 3 played 1 and 2... I didn't. I played 2 and 3. 

A new ip with their name attached? Cyberpunk has a chance to outsell Witcher 3. A good chance.

A completely different setting, a hyped developer... Has bungie/destiny written all over it.

Hopefully it doesn't turn out like Bungie/Destiny though... 😂



JEMC on 10 April 2020
ironmanDX said:

Maybe, or not.

We can't forget that, even thought CD Projekt Red has earned a well deserved reputation of making quality games, Cyberpunk will be a big departure from The Witcher. It has a completely different setting, a completely new combat system, with guns and not swords, and it's a first person game unlike Geralt's.

Sure, most people won't find any troubles with that, after all Bethesda has been making first person rol games for years with great success, but just because it works for them it means that it will work for CDPR.

It will. Witcher 3 is the 3rd game in the series. How often do we see such an explosion of sales at the end of a trilogy? How many of those that bought the Witcher 3 played 1 and 2... I didn't. I played 2 and 3. 

A new ip with their name attached? Cyberpunk has a chance to outsell Witcher 3. A good chance.

A completely different setting, a hyped developer... Has bungie/destiny written all over it.

Hopefully it doesn't turn out like Bungie/Destiny though... 😂

I hope it does, I really do, but over the years a lot of developers have said that starting a new IP is always difficult because they don't know if it will have success or not. And we have lots of examples of new IPs that failed despite coming from reputable developers (although most of the time, the game had flaws).

And yeah, I hope it doesn't end like Bungie/Destiny .



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Chrizum on 10 April 2020
JEMC said:
ironmanDX said:

It will. Witcher 3 is the 3rd game in the series. How often do we see such an explosion of sales at the end of a trilogy? How many of those that bought the Witcher 3 played 1 and 2... I didn't. I played 2 and 3. 

A new ip with their name attached? Cyberpunk has a chance to outsell Witcher 3. A good chance.

A completely different setting, a hyped developer... Has bungie/destiny written all over it.

Hopefully it doesn't turn out like Bungie/Destiny though... 😂

I hope it does, I really do, but over the years a lot of developers have said that starting a new IP is always difficult because they don't know if it will have success or not. And we have lots of examples of new IPs that failed despite coming from reputable developers (although most of the time, the game had flaws).

And yeah, I hope it doesn't end like Bungie/Destiny .

I don't know man, I think Keanu Reeves is a pretty strong IP.



Mnementh on 10 April 2020
Marth said:

And a sales breakdown by region:

This is the most surprising statistics out of the whole. A western game that strong in Asia? I am surprised and it shows you can get into asian markets, with the right games.



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Kenology on 11 April 2020

Outstanding Switch sales. Likely over a million now.

I myself purchased the game in January.



JRPGfan on 11 April 2020
Marth said:

CD Project published their report for 2019:

https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/wp-content/uploads-en/2020/04/management-board-report-on-activities-of-cd-projekt-group-and-cd-projekt-s-a-in-2019.pdf

And in there you can find the sales numbers of the Witcher 3 split by Year and Platform:

And a sales breakdown by region:

Im not at all surprised that PS4 + PC make up the vast majority of its sales (xbox users didnt seem intrested in it).
Also not surprised most of its sales are in europe.
What surprised me was the Asia > US number.



sales2099 on 11 April 2020
JRPGfan said:
Marth said:

CD Project published their report for 2019:

https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/wp-content/uploads-en/2020/04/management-board-report-on-activities-of-cd-projekt-group-and-cd-projekt-s-a-in-2019.pdf

And in there you can find the sales numbers of the Witcher 3 split by Year and Platform:

And a sales breakdown by region:

Im not at all surprised that PS4 + PC make up the vast majority of its sales (xbox users didnt seem intrested in it).
Also not surprised most of its sales are in europe.
What surprised me was the Asia > US number.

I wouldn’t say that, it’s more to do with generational market share. Xbox One sales legs are simply much less by default. Last gen WRPGs like Skyrim were most popular on Xbox 360. 



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