Comment by mikepurvis
20 hours ago
Definite kudos to them for that, though notably it's down to 65% off now, so presumably many of those copies were for not-full-retail price.
And the Switch 2 port likely cost considerable engineering effort and underperformed as well.
The fact that sales exist is a thing for every game just about
Sure, but when you speak of Arc Raiders selling 7M copies by late November, basically all of those were at $70-80 because the game just came out.
Maybe I'm not contributing meaningfully to the dialogue, but talking about total sales across a 5 year lifespan means you're necessarily including all those packrat users who picked it up on deep discount and haven't even booted it up once (or, like me, played two hours and in that initial window wasn't especially grabbed by the story, characters, or progression systems that the game was wanting me to engage with). It's different when something really pops off on release and sells all those copies in the first few months.