Cyberpunk 2077’s Idris Elba-starring enlargement Phantom Liberty has bought 4.3 million copies because it launched, developer CD Projekt Purple has confirmed.
Revealed throughout its newest earnings report, the developer confirmed the enlargement, which launched September 26 to excessive vital acclaim and three million gross sales inside its first week, has continued to carry out for the corporate.
“In accordance with our estimates, after final weekend whole gross sales of the enlargement topped 4.3 million copies,” stated chief monetary officer Piotr Nielubowicz in a video. “Which means that each fifth one who owns a duplicate of the bottom recreation for the PC or next-gen consoles has additionally bought the enlargement.”
These numbers additionally come forward of the Cyberpunk 2077: Final Version happening sale on December 5, which comes with Phantom Liberty packaged within the field and can due to this fact seemingly increase its gross sales additional.
Although CD Projekt Purple did not get as particular right here, it additionally revealed a breakdown of platform gross sales in October 2023 alongside the three million items determine. 68% of copies have been bought on PC, 20% have been bought on PlayStation 5, and 13% have been bought on Xbox Sequence X and S. The developer additionally shared the one and solely enlargement value roughly 275 million Polish Zloty (round $62.7 million) to develop and roughly 95 million Polish Zloty (round $21.6 million) to market.
Forward of Phantom Liberty’s arrival in September, Replace 2.0 laid the muse for the brand new Cyberpunk 2077 expertise. It utterly revamped the sport with options resembling a brand new perk system and improved AI and likewise introduced closure to an Elon Musk fan concept, a reference to the late racing legend Ken Block, and weird additions to the sport’s greatest thriller.
Bizarrely, CD Projekt even included a manner for gamers to show down the occasions of the paid enlargement altogether, with sure dialogue choices locking the missions away for good.
In our 9/10 evaluate, IGN stated: “Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty completes an immense turnaround for CD Projekt Purple’s future RPG kickstarted with the anime spin-off, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and its newest 2.0 Replace.”
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll discuss The Witcher all day.