Cyberpunk 2077 pre-orders are the most in China. PC is leading from the front. Witcher surpassed 50 million copies sold.

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dd940711/

Cyberpunk 2077 has more pre-orders on PC than Consoles

No.1 Euro King CD Projekt made the badass trailer in Chinese. Not only the trailers, CDPR also announced they'll launch an official Chinese version of game along with the international version. CD Projekt Red even have a letter translate to Chinese to thanks their support for The Witcher 3.

This is just the start.

Witcher 1 + 2 were just under 20M as of the end of 2019. Witcher 3 is about 30M of that 50M number.

Looks like Western AAA game publishers might start following Hollywood's lead in targeting and catering to the Chinese market, which is inevitable given the huge size of the market.

P.S. The last reported number for TW3 was 28M, including expansion packs.

Makes sense really, Cyberpunk 2077 has that China City Skyscraper vibe going for if you think about it. I bet GoG has the most pre-orders then Steam and really, GoG is the best place to play Cyberpunk 2077.

And now CD Projekt has even less of an excuse to screw PC gamers over with a console downgrade

@vaeh:

PC community must be hurtin' for some new AAA action. Can't say I blame them.

PC ain't hurting for shit :D

How is PC missing out AAA games when all I been playing is nothing but AAA games since the start of the new year? Are you drunk again nepu7supastar7?

A shame that they will pander to China after all the shit they pulled.

How many? Big ass population, what's the ratio?

@davillain-:

I'm just saying that it looks that way with so many pre-ordering Cyberpunk. Not like it's a bad thing! AAA is the pinnacle of greatness in videogames. 😋

@nepu7supastar7: I can dig it :)

I'm super duper hype for this game myself!

@mrbojangles25:

Taking a quick look at the better pc releases...

Streets of Rage 4

Gears Tactics

Snowrunner

Xcom Chimera Squad

Resident Evil 3

Mount and Blade 2

Doom Eternal

Half Life Alyx

Wolcen Lords of Mayhem

Minecraft Dungeons

Halo 2 Anniversary

- Yeah, those pre-orders make perfect sense. I'd be pre-ordering Cyberpunk too if that's what I had to look forward to.

I was thinking about getting Cyberpunk 2077 directly from GoG because I want to support the developer, but I'm wondering if maybe I should get the PS5 version. My PC is now starting to look outdated next to these new consoles lol. Have only a GTX 980 TI.

Back in April the Witcher 3 was reported at 28m. Makes sense TW3 must have cracked 30m.

Impressive that Cyberpunk remains one of the top Steam sellers considering it isn't even out yet.

You can also go to GoG any time of the day or night and Cyberpunk is the #1 bestseller.

They haven't even had their event yet either.

@vaeh:

I guess Cyberpunk is the current pc equivalent to Final Fantasy VII Remake. I'm pretty hyped for it too but I don't see the point of pre-ordering it while the release is so far away.

Why are you complaining? Don't you guys like capitalism to the point where you don't even want to have the safety net of universal health care for the most vulnerable population of your country?

Robots also have a big presence in China.

PC hast he most AAA titles than any other system this gen.

The standard "cyberpunk city" look (e.g. in cyberpunk classics like Blade Runner, Akira, Neuromancer, Ghost in the Shell, etc.) was originally modeled after Tokyo and Hong Kong in the '80s. And since then, modern Chinese cities like Beijing and Shanghai have evolved to have a similar appearance.

Something that China can be proud of.

That means China has a huge gamer market and they are looking to buy some games. Western people tend to be more cautious when pre-ording these days and China is currently is having a gaming revolution just like gaming in USA in the 80s.

Cool. I loved The Witcher 3 and am very hyped for Cyberpunk 2077. I’ll be getting the Xbox One version myself then upgrading to the sweet Xbox Series X version when that system launches.

Just saying, the city in the game almost kinda gives you the feel of China is almost a reason why pre-orders are on the rise. Gotta love inspirations :)

@nepu7supastar7: i like how you pulled that random list out of your ass. Not only is it actually full of good games, which doesn't help your point, but it's also at the same time ridiculously small, random, and underrepresentative. There are whole genres missing, for one thing. Still, if you don't play on the platform you can't be expected to know what games are on it. Happens a lot around here

@xantufrog:

It's not random, I actually got it from here:

https://www.pcgamesn.com/new-pc-games

Looks like there's not much going on for pc in the AAA department.

China censors a lot and now that developers are catering to the market heavily, expect content to change.

@nepu7supastar7: Only games missing on the PC are PS4 and Switch exclusives tho.

@jasonofa36:

And that may seem small but the games that are on that exclusive list actually make a pretty big difference.

@nepu7supastar7: https://www.shacknews.com/article/115060/2020-video-game-release-dates-calendar

I see a lot of games coming out for the PC too, along with the console releases.

And if you control+F [PC] and [PS4], there are more games releasing for the PC. Switch gets more than both tho.

Look at Tencent buying off CDPR after the huge success of CP2077. Its coming, and it cannot be stopped.

PC gets more AAA titles than any other platform. It gets every XB1X exclusive and several PS4 exclusives that do not go to each other, on top of most other multiplats and a few exclusive genres.

Nothing comes close.

It's not enough.

This is not a surprise, PC has over 120 more high scoring games than PS4 this generation at both Metacritic and Gamespot.

@nepu7supastar7: So you put out a list filled with great games then when you realize you shot yourself in the foot you start trolling? Nice going.

I bought a 3000 dollar PC just for this game. IM READY FOR WHATEVER YOU THROW AT ME CYBERPUNK. KNEEL BEFORE SYN!!!!!!

I'm happy CD Projekt is getting massive pre-order support for this highly anticipated game. I've done my share of support by pre-ordering on GOG and the Deluxe Edition on PS4. With their DRM free policy, they deserve every penny from us gamers. Vote with your wallet guys.

50 million!! Holy cow!!! And EA says single player games don’t sell eh? Lmfao!

Glad to hear they are having so much success. There were rumors last year of CDProject Red being in financial trouble. This does not seem to be the case anymore, if it ever really was.

@Jag85: We all know how well that is working for Disney between their comic cinematic universe and a galaxy far, far away. Hint: It's not.

Every chinese city looks cyberpunk. This game will be huge over there.

@pc_rocks: Ah, so you're not American? Then you won't understand the way our system actually works, you have no credibility, and I don't care what you have to say.

As for CD Project Red... I really enjoyed Witcher 3. I hear another is on the way. Continuing to pander to those responsible for the outbreak and then lie about it (China) will probably affect my purchase decisions on their future games.

@Telekill: What do you mean by pandering? Do you think they should not market their games to China?

To me CD Projekt doesn't seem a likely candidate to screw over PC users.

Single-player games do sell, but slowly over time in contrast to the revenue that multi-player games can generate in a much shorter time span, and probably with a much smaller budget.

I think this is what EA wants to say, without saying it. In short: single-player games do not fit in EA's business model: high revenue in a short time.

CDP, the oldest Polish game distributor filed for bankruptcy. This has no impact on CD Projekt's operations. Before RED and GOG, CD Projekt was a game distributor. In 2014 the distribution branch was split from the original company and formed a separate entity, CDP, which went its own way.

Hopefully this won't mean if Chinese decide they want game censored last minute we'll see it delayed another couple months because CDPR will be worried about losing a significant chunk of the market. Maybe only real thing I see that could be cause for censorship might be the signature cyberpunk world where nation states deteriorate and fall to wayside while power consolidates around major industry, maybe any mention or even just the notion of Chinese government being supplanted by major industry would be enough to enforce a degree of censorship.

But they did it with the The Witcher 3. They denied the game being downgraded months before launch and then on release they justified the downgrade by saying the game wouldn't exist without consoles. After the first year of sales PC became the best selling platform and a good amount of copies were bought from their own store.

I'm just saying CD Projekt has no excuse to pull another Witcher 3 on us with all that has happened. The Witcher 3 sales showed how well the game does on PC especially after the first year while console sales declined over time. Not even the addition of a Switch version was able to have all consoles combined outsell PC. A lot of PC gamers are willing to support them by buying directly from their store so even with PC sales being behind the PS4 in the first year they still made a lot of money from PC sales due to getting 100% of the money from several bought copies on GOG.

One third of Cyberpunk 2077's PC preorders are through GOG and now we learn that China has the most preorders overall. The game is also going to be officially released there so this guarantees that Cyberpunk 2077 will not only sell the most on PC at launch but significantly outsell the console versions too due to the Chinese playerbase. Cyberpunk 2077 became the instant best seller on Steam in China when preorders became available and the previous best seller right before it was Total War: Three Kingdoms which sold a million copies in its first week. That along with the long term sales on PC will easily make Cyberpunk 2077 one of the best selling PC games of all time.

So yeah if CD Projekt did downgrade Cyberpunk 2077 for console parity they better have been using these months to undo it and make it one hell of a showcase for ray traced graphics.

@nintendoboy16: Disney has been doing very well in China for the past decade or so. Star Wars is their only franchise to flop in China. Most other Disney movies are hits in China, especially the Marvel movies.

@Jag85: Not what Black Panther showed me, to the point where Chinese film critics recycled alt-right talking points.

Oh I fully understand how your system works that's why I said what I said. Why so mad at the capitalism of CDPR or anyone when you champion it?

@nintendoboy16: Black Panther did well at the Chinese box office though. By "film critics", are you maybe referring to online user reviews? There were a bunch of Chinese online user reviews with racist/bigoted remarks similar to Western alt-right, but I'm not aware of these remarks coming from professional Chinese critics? Nor did it have a significant impact at the Chinese box office, where the movie still did well regardless.

While I would agree there is a lot of racism in China, and that the CCP is racist (e.g. their treatment of minorities), this doesn't have much of an impact on the Chinese box office, where Chinese moviegoers are surprisingly more open-minded and less xenophobic than US moviegoers. While most US moviegoers almost exclusively watch only Hollywood movies, Chinese moviegoers watch movies from across the world, including Chinese, Hollywood, Bollywood, Japanese, Anime, Arabic, Spanish, Thai, etc. Chinese moviegoers generally have more varied and diverse tastes than narrow-minded xenophobic US moviegoers.