CD Projekt is remaking the first Witcher game in Unreal Engine 5

Re:CD Projekt is remaking the first Witcher game in Unreal E... by HideousKojima on Thursday October 27, 2022 @02:34PM (#33361934)

According to this site (can't vouch for how accurate their numbers are) The Witcher III sold ~12 million copies on Steam, The Witcher II sold ~6 million, and the original sold ~3 million. That's not counting sales on GOG and other stores, consoles, etc. And I personally got copies of the first and second game around the time the second game released.

https://vginsights.com/game/292030

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Re:CD Projekt is remaking the first Witcher game in Unreal E... by skocznymroczny on Thursday October 27, 2022 @03:06PM (#33362448)

If it doesn't count sales on GOG then it's not really reliable. GOG is owned by CD Projekt group, and one of the big points when releasing Witcher games was that people bought them on GOG so that all money went to the devs instead of paying the Steam tax.

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Re:CD Projekt is remaking the first Witcher game in Unreal E... by hbn on Thursday October 27, 2022 @03:56PM (#33363147)

How many people were aware of that campaign? Maybe in the Witcher/CDPR superfan groups, but on the scale of 12 million copies I can't imagine it budges the number that much.

I don't know why we're only talking about the PC version anyway, there's apparently been 40 million copies sold across all platforms according to a quick Google search, so most people didn't even play on PC.

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Re:CD Projekt is remaking the first Witcher game in Unreal E... by HideousKojima on Thursday October 27, 2022 @05:08PM (#33364071)

>I don't know why we're only talking about the PC version anyway

Because the post I was replying to was about the popularity of The Witcher in the west before The Witcher III, and the first Witcher game was a PC exclusive so there are no console sales to factor in to the comparison.

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