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Polish game studio CD Projekt SA sold 13 million copies of its troublesome game Cyberpunk 2077 by December 20, a figure that takes into account the number of refund requests the company has received.
The study’s expected sales update does not include information on the rebate scale itself, it only provides the number of net sales. Cyberpunk was so riddled with glitches that Sony pulled the title off its PlayStation store while Microsoft offered full refunds for Xbox users.
“This figure represents the estimated volume of retail sales on all hardware platforms (taking into account returns sent by retail customers in both physical and digital stores), that is, the figure of ‘direct sale’, minus all requests electronic refund packages mailed directly to the company, ”CD Projekt said in a regulatory filing Tuesday.
The sales figure amounts to about half the 12-month sales forecast in a Bloomberg survey of nine analysts, which was taken before Sony pulled the game from its store. The game had more than 8 million pre-orders prior to its debut on December 10, prompting an online outcry from players frustrated over its poor performance and a drop in CD Projekt’s share price.
CD Projekt advanced 4.6 percent in Warsaw on Tuesday before the sales update was released. Since its peak on December 4, the company has lost 40 percent of its market value, or about PLN 18 billion (roughly Rs 35.9 billion).
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