The Witcher 3 Has Sold Over 6 Million Units, Budget Was £53M - News

by Craig Snow , posted on 26 August 2015 / 4,722 Views

CD Projekt RED's latest financial report reveals that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt had a £53 million budget and that it sold over 6 million units (the exact total is 6,014,576 units) in the first six weeks following its launch.

The report also notes that 1 million of that 6 million total were activated through CD Projekt's own GOG storefront. CD Projekt RED posted net profits of £41 million for the first half of 2015.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was released for PC, PS4, and Xbox One back in May.

20 Comments

Mystro-Sama (on 26 August 2015)

They made a good game, marketed it properly and now are reaping the benefits. And no scumbag tactics were involved. Some of these publishers could learn a thing or two here.

lukeperryglover Mystro-Sama (on 26 August 2015)

Yup!

shakarak (on 26 August 2015)

Good for them, it is deserved! Steamspy reports 750,000 users on on steam plus 1 million purchased on GOG, maybe about 50,000 purchased through other online vendors? Can we estimate about 1.8 Million for PC sales?

CosmicSex shakarak (on 26 August 2015)

Yes we can but it still doesn't represent the massive hole in what VGC is reporting. There is still over 2 million unaccounted for.

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Mnementh shakarak (on 26 August 2015)

What's with the buyers of the retail-version on PC? Yes, PC still sells retail-games. :-)
http://www.amazon.de/Witcher-Wild-Hunt-Standard-PC/dp/B00KNZNYU0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1440617523&sr=8-1&keywords=witcher+3

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elazz shakarak (on 26 August 2015)

1.8m PC, 2.9m PS4 and 1.3m Xbox One would seem right I guess (physical + digital)

JNK shakarak (on 26 August 2015)

keep in mind Nvidia graphics card included a free download core for the witcher 3 for some month, so "real pc sales" might be not as high. I guess that 500k of the GOG downloads were from nvidia cars, so something like 1.2-1.3 mio on pc should be legit.

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antigin shakarak (on 27 August 2015)

elazz, it seems that PC is a bit over 2M
GOG - 1M, SteamSpy - ~750k, VGC Retail - 300k. ~2.05M
PS4: 2M retail and I guess 800k digital. ~2.8M
XO: 700k retail and I guess 450k digital. ~1.15M

captain carot (on 27 August 2015)

Totally deserved, if not even less then deserved. Really hope Witcher 3 keeps on selling.

Sixteenvolt420 (on 26 August 2015)

Well deserved. The game had tons of stuff to do. I spent about 175 hours playing it, myself.

HEMSTAR (on 26 August 2015)

Congratulations, well deserved.

Lawlight (on 26 August 2015)

$83M budget. That's a big jump from the Witcher 2's $10M.

binary solo (on 26 August 2015)

Nice. So about $350 million total game revenue. Not sure what proportion of that goes to CDPR but it's pretty obvious they made a reasonable profit. Proof you can play nice with consumers AND be profitable. Also shows that for 3rd parties being multiplatform is important. They wouldn't be at 6 million if they weren't on 3 platforms.

Dgc1808 (on 26 August 2015)

Great news. Love this game.

OmegaRed421 (on 26 August 2015)

Part of that 6mil on GoG was from the free copies all Gamestop employees received. They only got digital PC copies for free. Those are still some good numbers though.