The Cyberpunk 2077 developer’s preliminary financial numbers show 2020 sales and earnings both several times higher than the records during the launch year of The Witcher 3
CD Projekt today released two preliminary figures from its upcoming annual earnings report to give an idea of just how big the 2020 and December Cyberpunk 2077 debut really was.
For the full year, CD Projekt brought in a record PLN 2.14 billion ($ 562 million) in consolidated sales revenue. That number is more than four times what it reported for 2019, and more than two and a half times the company’s previous record of PLN 798 million ($ 210 million) set in 2015 with the launch of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
The company also set a bottom-line record with net profit of PLN 1.15 billion ($ 303 million). That’s more than tripling the previous earnings record of PLN 342 million ($ 89.8 million), also achieved in 2015.
The gap between the company’s two best years looks even wider considering The Witcher 3 launched in May 2015 and had months to resell, while Cyberpunk 2077 hit shelves on December 10 (Cyberpunk 2077 had also Collected 8 million preorders). until his release.)
Sales aside, it would be hard to call Cyberpunk 2077’s launch an unconditional success. The game debuted in such a difficult state, especially on consoles, that the developer promised refunds to any customer who wanted one, and Sony completely removed the digital copy of the game from the PlayStation Store. At the time of writing, Sony has not put it up for sale again.
CD Projekt expects to announce last year’s final results on April 22.