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The WoW: Shadowlands record has already been broken.
Just a few days ago, Blizzard announced the newly released Shadowlands expansion for World of Warcraft as the best-selling PC game of all time, but already, Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt’s open world play, has stolen that crown.
When Blizzard announced the Shadowlands achievement earlier this week, it revealed that the expansion had sold through more than 3.7 million units worldwide on its first full day of release.
However, as reported by GamesIndustry.biz, CD Projekt’s investor relations Twitter account has now shared some initial sales statistics for Cyberpunk 2077, revealing that the game managed to turn around a total of 8 million pre-orders across all platforms.
Cyberpunk 2077 Visual Tech Tour from Digital Foundry – the next-gen PC experience maximized.
Total, 59% of all pre-orders were made on PC (and 74% were for digital versions of Cyberpunk 2077, if you’re curious about that particular division), which means that CD Projekt has already traded roughly 4.72 million copies on PC, topping the launch day total of Shadowlands in a million, and that’s even without taking into account Cyberpunk’s remaining launch day sales.
It’s not particularly surprising to learn that Cyberpunk is already doing the numbers, of course, given the astronomical hype that has grown around CD Projekt’s first blockbuster game since The Witcher 3 in the eight years since its original announcement.
– CD PROJEKT IR (@CDPROJEKTRED_IR) December 10, 2020
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The good news is that Cyberpunk 2077 is another solid entry in CD Projekt’s increasingly impressive catalog, despite the various performance issues and sometimes hilarious bugs that haunt the game on launch day. Eurogamer’s Chris Tapsell was impressed enough to slap him with a Recommended badge, saying, “The intense and intoxicating humanity at his heart is so almost engulfed by all the noise. But I think I can still hear it, almost.”
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