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Rising Success on Steam Launch
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 remains the best-selling paid game on Steam. Less than 24 hours after its release, Warhorse has revealed that it has already sold one million copies. The first 2018 installment took two weeks to do so, with total sales hitting eight million. The number of concurrent players on Steam also tells us how well the game is doing. In the case of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, it climbed to 159,351 on release, according to SteamDB, which is very respectable. However, the numbers grew even more during the weekend to an amazing 256,206 concurrent players.
Comparing with Industry Peers
For comparison, just how much of a success Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has, let’s recall the results of the first installment. At its peak, 96,063 concurrent players were playing it. A more interesting recent comparison is with Dragon Age: Veilguard from last October, which reached 89,418 concurrent players. Leaving aside the quality of the game for now, its financial results offer us an important insight. The game, like Kingdom Come 2, was released on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. In its financial report, publisher EA admitted that it sold 1.5 million copies in two months.
Future Sales Projections
Kingdom Come 2 has, in terms of players on Steam, almost three times that number. It boasts a lot of positive reviews. Furthermore, with Kingdom Come 2, based on the experience with the results of other games as well, it can be assumed that the game could reach the five million copies sold mark in the first quarter. It is the initial sales that are most important. “The sales curve is inexorable, and after the first week it goes rather down,” Daniel Vávra, creative director of Warhorse, has said several times.
Launch Details and Market Context
Games from very well-known brands such as Fallout, The Last of Us or The Witcher may enjoy additional favour when a new film or series is released, for example, but Kingdom Come has been unlucky in this respect so far. The influx of gamers also comes with significant discount promotions, but even that is not yet on the cards as expected. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 was released on February 4 on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.
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