‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Just Tied A Sales Record For This Decade

Cyberpunk 2077

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It was perhaps the highest-profile game with the roughest start in industry history, but after years of fixes and additions, Cyberpunk 2077 has become an all-time great. That’s not just in terms of game quality (though it is my personal favorite game of all time), but also sales. In the 5.5 years since release, CDPR has just announced that 2020’s Cyberpunk 2077 has hit 40 million sales.

That metric ties a record for this current decade, the 2020s. In terms of individual game sales, there are only two multiplatform games that have sold 40 million copies, the other being Hogwarts Legacy, albeit that did so much faster, having released in 2023. Past those two, only one game has sold more in the 2020s: Animal Crossing: New Horizons on the Switch, with 50 million in sales. That’s single platform, not multi.

With 40 million sales, Cyberpunk 2077 ranks among the top 20 best-selling games of all time, tied at #19. For the rest of the list, you have to go all the way down to #31, where Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, It Takes Two and Elden Ring all sold 30 million copies since 2020, by last count. There are nine games in the top 50 since 2020, Phasmophobia, Pokemon Scarlet/Violet and Black Myth Wukong being the last ones to add to that list. However, given all the ties here, we’re looking at 60+ games in total.

Cyberpunk 2077’s overall earnings are boosted further, however, by its mega-expansion, Phantom Liberty, which has sold 10 million copies at (usually) a $30 price. I would consider that not a good enough attach rate, given that the expansion actually contains the best content in the game, including some of its best endings. So if you own Cyberpunk 2077, go buy and play that immediately.

CDPR is not waiting around to maximize on the love for the game. While working on The Witcher 4 (The Witcher 3 sold 65 million copies and is the 8th best-selling game ever), CDPR is also working on the second Cyberpunk game, which is set to release a few years from now. It stands to reason it will figure out how to avoid an utterly disastrous launch this time, but even during that window, Cyberpunk still sold 13 million copies in its first 10 days (refunds due to its problems only amounted to a few hundred thousand, and that is included in the 13 million total).

Cyberpunk 2077 is an all-time great, and it’s cool to see sales reflect that. We’ll see how the sequel does next time around.

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