Dishonored 2 Sells an Estimated 486K Units First Week at Retail - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 08 December 2016 / 47,560 Views
The action-adventure stealth game from Bethesda Softworks and Arcane Studios - Dishonored 2 - sold 485,750 units first week at retail, according to our estimates. First week sales can be viewed on the VGChartz Global Weekly Chart for the week ending November 11.
Breaking down the sales by platform, the game sold best on the PlayStation 4 with 311,924 units sold (64%), compared to 113,479 units sold on the Xbox One (23%). The game also sold 60,347 units on Windows PC (13%).
Breaking down the sales by region, the game sold best in Europe with 200,920 units sold (41%), compared to 200,607 units sold in Europe (41%). Looking more closely at Europe, the game sold an estimated 40,314 units in the UK, 45,089 units in Germany, and 28,398 units in France.
Dishonored 2 released for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows PC worldwide on November 11.
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It sold another 140k or so first week on Steam according to Steam Spy. Plus, EA claims that console digital is like 25-30% now across the industry, so we're probably looking at around 750k first week with digital sales included That's still down compared to the first game, but not too bad considering it released in a busy Holiday.
Yea they released at a very busy time. Hell I loved the first one and I still haven't got this game yet. After I beat Dying light it'll probably be the next game I get but there is just so much i need to get to right now.
Steam Spy counts the number of users that had the game.Steam has a two hour refund policy so the actual sales are a lot lower.
I doubt that many people refunded it over the poor optimization on PC, maybe 10k.
How does this compare to the first Dishonored in the same time frame?
Dishonored 1 sold 777k at retail first week, though it's worth nothing that digital sales have increased quite a bit since 2012, especially on consoles. With digital included, Dishonored 2 is likely still behind Dishonored 1, but not by as much as a retail comparison would have you believe.
There were a few deals for black friday and it was on sale for 35 at best buy last week. So I imagine the next few weeks will be good to this game.
Lol. I watched Bethesda's E3 event but I didn't knew the release date.
It's at 340k on SteamSpy right now, so it may be pushing some solid digital sales. I'll also be curious to see what these numbers are like after Christmas; those final weeks of Christmas often see huge spikes for games released close to Christmas and start off slow sales wise.
