Cyberpunk 2077 Sells 13 Million Copies At Launch

@bdrtfm: Not cold hard cash though. In time, the value of their shares will go back up.

@bdrtfm: I bet they regret calling the executives and throwing hissy fits when it was delayed past Black Friday and then demanding that it be released in time for Xmass no matter what, eh?

@xantufrog: Feel the same way. It has a been a blast.

If you are an open world purist, this game will probably spit in your face, but if you just like games in general, across a wide variety of genres, there is something for you in this game.

@xantufrog: What if Fallout wasn't just an empty wasteland and the nuclear event wasn't the cliched post-apocalypse scene? What if Skyrim had actually good characters and dialogue? what is GTA was first person and gave you loads of options for building your character? what if we threw in a bit of Deus Ex saelf-modification and made it a real open world instead of the fakery Deus Ex does for open world? There's elements of a LOT of games in this and largely well done takes on it. I get vibes from different games at different times while playing and mostly in a good way.

There are elements that don't live up to some of the games from which you're getting the vibes of course...for example, the driving isn't up to GTA standards and unless you spend some real time putzing with the vertical and horizontal sensitivities, boost, deadzone, etc. and tweaking your controller in the advanced options, the shooting is going to feel janky...but it largely fits all together and becomes more than the sum of its parts.

@phattsao: A true next-gen game? You’re literally playing the previous gen version.

@phattsao: It truly is, Phat. And further on in our downward spiraling, I suspect that even this game we shall envy.

@mrbojangles25: This is a nice, reasonable comment. I suspect the company will learn from this and become better for it. They don't strike me as an EA type of company...

@aodmisery: Read the article. They said the 13 million includes refunds.

@Thanatos2k: Just about. I never pre-order unless it's something I KNOW I'm not going to be able to pick up due to limited quantities, like a Senran Kagura game or what have you. There's literally NO reason to pre-order a game that's going to be heavily available. It's like the people who pre-order Call of Duty games... Really?

@Thanatos2k: I very rarely pre-order games, maybe once every other year, but I have never been burned before by games I have pre-ordered. I have consistently always enjoyed the games I have chosen to buy early. I pre-ordered this game, and have been enjoying it a lot, so the streak continues.

@gr4h4m833zy: Uncharted 4 probably had a lot less in the way of problems, and it certainly didn't shred Sony's stock price.

@gr4h4m833zy: they lost that money in stocks cause they're stock went down.

@gr4h4m833zy: They didn't. Their stock price went down, which is imaginary money. Clickbait writers pretend like that means they lost money. Note they say "wealth" because that's the only word they can technically get away with.

@rising333:

They have to release the info because they are publicly traded company on the Warsaw stock exchange in Poland.

@Barighm: Yep imagine what this game would make when it nears its life cycle.

@JackNief: Did you not read, returns were factored in that 13 million.