The redemption tour that Cyberpunk 2077 has been on because it was fastened up right into a playable state has turned in some large gross sales numbers. Developer CD Projekt Purple lately revealed that the once-maligned-but-now-refined sci-fi first-person shooter has raked in over $750 million for the reason that sport’s December 2020 launch.
The Polish studio tweeted the information on March 28, which got here from the corporate’s fiscal 12 months 2023 earnings report. On the fourth slide of the presentation, CDPR reported that CP2077 pulled in three billion PLN (or “zloty,” Poland’s foreign money). Changing that from PLN to USD (utilizing Google, in fact) reveals that the action-adventure FPS has made roughly $751,555,500 up to now. Sheesh, that’s a lotta {dollars}.
The slide doesn’t differentiate between earnings constructed from Cyberpunk 2077 correct and people generated by its 2023 growth, Phantom Liberty. Nonetheless, as illustrated within the above graph, gross sales of the sport slowed down in 2021 earlier than selecting up in 2022 and nearly doubling in 2023 when Phantom Liberty dropped. Additional down within the presentation, CDPR revealed that Cyberpunk 2077 and its Phantom Liberty DLC made up a bulk of the corporate’s income in 2022 and 2023, with much less coming in from the video games in The Witcher sequence. (Fast apart on The Witcher: CDPR reconfirmed within the earnings report that 403 of its 627 builders are engaged on “Venture Polaris,” a brand new trilogy in that franchise.)
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Whereas CDPR pats itself on the again for the cash luggage Johnny Silverhand is holding, the studio additionally introduced that Cyberpunk 2077 has a free trial that goes reside on March 28 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X/S. Whereas the free trial solely permits you to play for 5 hours and doesn’t embrace entry to Phantom Liberty, your progress will carry over to the complete sport should you purchase it. It’s an enormous obtain, although, taking on a hefty 99.3GB on PS5 and 103GB on Xbox Sequence X/S, so be ready for that earlier than you dive in. The free trial is reside till April 1.
