The Witcher 3 breaks 50 million copies offered – WGB, Dwelling of AWESOME Opinions

Some video games simply preserve promoting. Grand Theft Auto V is almost a decade previous at this level nevertheless it someway continues to seem within the charts and has offered over 180 million copies, a very mind-boggling quantity. It’s solely surpassed by Minecraft.

Effectively, it looks like The Witcher 3 can also be a kind of uncommon video games that simply retains going and going and going. CD Projekt RED Tweeted out that their sport has now offered over 50 million copies.

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Currently, Wikipedia has The Witcher 3 as having offered 40 million copies which places it in sixteenth place. These new figures would shift the sport to ninth, simply behind Crimson Lifeless Redemption 2 (53 million) and simply forward of Pokemon Crimson/Inexperienced/Blue/Yellow.

After all, the sport’s huge success was additionally bolstered by the TV present starring each geek’s crush Henry Cavill, the superb DLC, the next-gen replace and the truth that it’s always on sale.

The corporate’s subsequent sport, Cyberpunk 2077, took some time, launching in 2020, a full 5 years after The Witcher 3. Regardless of plenty of issues, Cyberpunk 2077 offered like loopy and as of September 2022 has offered 20 million copies, a quantity that’s undoubtedly a lot greater by this level. The bottom sport on Wikipedia’s record is Crimson Lifeless Redemption at 23 million copies offered, and it might not shock me if Cyberpunk 2077 is near that or has surpassed it by this level.

To this present day I nonetheless adore The Witcher 3. It accommodates a few of the most pleasant quests I’ve ever performed in an RPG and a fantastically realised world. I preserve which means to fireplace it up and take a look at the up to date model however by no means get round to it. Someday I’ll make the time, sharpen up my silver blade and hunt some monsters.