Doom Eternal rips and tears through competition, sells over 700K on Steam
It also sold ~250-400K on XBOX and PlayStation each.
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Doom Eternal ESTIMATED sales are over 700K on Steam, ~250-400K on XBOX and PlayStation each
- Thread starter Shakerovic
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They basically just track online users / owners in the way Steamspy did, but have vaguely expanded that to trolling through PSN and Xbox profiles.
This.
I want Doom Internal to do well and I'm sure it's sold pretty well because it's a great game that was well received by critics and fans, but I'd be careful posting links to websites that post numbers without clear methods behind them.
250-400k is a huge range for an estimate too. The upper end being almost double the lower. The kind of range you could pull from thin air and still have fair odds of being correct.
It works like Steamspy, they scan Steam/Xbox Live/PSN accounts for achievments and estimate based on that. Not 100% accurate but there were many developers who said Steamspy was pretty close to real numbers. I believe the Xbox gamebar is also used for PC, which can track some games on other platforms like Epic Game Store.
I.e., made shit up.
"Was". Steam's change to profile privacy made their method unreliable.
Some publishers will still stagger their titles next-gen to launch on consoles first, then 6 to 12 months later on PC. Publishers are still waiting for the next-gen PC 2 to come out and be on par.
250-400k on both consoles? That could be upwards of 300k in error. Is that normal when tracking these things?
Rooting for the game to do well but I ain't about to be out here listening to just anybody, lol.
I think that's the reason why we don't track things this way. After Valve patched the Steamspy tracking method they were reduced to listing very broad sales figures like this (such as between 1-2 million sales etc) and people promptly stopped paying attention to it. Basically unless they have concrete, non approximated data, which they don't, I'm not going to give it any credibility.
No? Its all 'estimated' with all the profile based data from steam and other PC store based user profiles and achievements and for consoles also.
They're not claiming to be objective in any way.. Just an estimate and going by their methodology it might not be that accurate but in no way is is it made up shit.
The world's smallest sample size apparently:
The very weak ending soured it for me, but it was still incredible, the best made PC I've ever played for sure. It was just nice playing a game that well made, when so many games suffer with technical issues.
I can't wait to play it but I have enough on my plate with HL Alyx. I'll save it for later, when I can hopefully splurge on an Ultrawide monitor and an RSX card
Sorry. I'll try to make sure posts like that are on era in 2021 too.
Aside from this being completely unreliable... wouldn't these numbers be really low?! 700k+ at best 800k on consoles = only 1.5 million first week. I thought it was a much bigger franchise than that?
It's missing most non-Steam sales, since most of those are Bethesda.net keys. (Buka regions RU/CIS etc. gets Steam key though)
Doom 2016 didn't light the world on fire in terms of sales at launch, but it had long legs. These numbers are 100 percent wrong but even 1.5m at launch would probably be a massive incrrase.
Doom 2016 launch had zero hype as prerelease marking focused entirely on bad stuff (MP) instead of good stuff (SP).
Have you ever read about sales of almost all of recent Bethesda releases? If this is true, then Eternal sales are much better than most of their games released between 2017-2020. Wolfenstein 2, Dishonored 2, The Evil Within 2 and RAGE 2 had one thing in common beside being a sequel, apparently they all underperformed at launch.
Completely unreliable source, since bethesda is private and doesnt have to(and thus mostly doesnt) release data.
But 1.5M seems low even for made up numbers.
AC managed more than that retail in japan alone, WW Doom has to be better than that at least.
But 1.5M seems low even for made up numbers.
AC managed more than that retail in japan alone, WW Doom has to be better than that at least.
I'd imagine a significant percentage of PC players are not playing the Steam version.
Like me, they bought a Bethesda.net key via the likes of CDKeys because it was much cheaper (£30 instead of £50). So I'd imagine the total PC sales are significantly higher.
Like me, they bought a Bethesda.net key via the likes of CDKeys because it was much cheaper (£30 instead of £50). So I'd imagine the total PC sales are significantly higher.