Witcher franchise sold 1.5 million copies in 2011 [Joystiq]

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CD Projekt RED announced this morning that The Witcher franchise sold over 1.5 million units in 2011. The breakdown is 1.1 million copies of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings for the year, following its May launch, and another 400,000 sales of the original game, which launched in 2007.

"I have to admit, though, that the sales results for The Witcher, five years on from the game's premiere, are remarkable. If anything, they prove that the content we put into our games ages well," said Adam Badowski, head of the CD Projekt RED studio.

A surprising statistic about the sequel, given how entrenched we think digital distribution is in PC gaming, is that digital distribution only accounted for 24 percent of the sequel's sales. Digital distribution channels had 270,000 sales of The Witcher 2, with 40,000 of those through the DRM-free GOG.com.

The Witcher will also be introduced to new audiences this year when The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition makes its way to Xbox 360 on April 17.Continue reading Witcher franchise sold 1.5 million copies in 2011
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[gepeto]

Yeah and amazon is selling the witcher 2 deluxe edition this week pc download for only 15.00 bucks what a steal.

[SirPsycho]

FREE DLC FOREVER!

With that out of my system CD Projekt Red deserves all the support they can get for having such amazing policies. But their piracy court claim was pretty ridiculous...

[Graham Mitchell]

Yeah and amazon is selling the witcher 2 deluxe edition this week pc download for only 15.00 bucks what a steal.

Really? I should pick that up! I almost bought a physical copy but didn't want to pay $50 for it.

[Gameguy]

Am I the only one who's never heard of this series?

[Griking]

Am I the only one who's never heard of this series?

You must be. Its an excellent game.

[Gameguy]

You must be. Its an excellent game.

It just surprised me a bit, usually I hear news about upcoming or current games even if I don't have the system it's being released on. The post above says that the first game came out 5 years ago and I never heard of it.

[Kitsune Sniper]

It just surprised me a bit, usually I hear news about upcoming or current games even if I don't have the system it's being released on. The post above says that the first game came out 5 years ago and I never heard of it.

Well it wasn't released on consoles, so that was probably what did it. Most of the hubbub about it in America came from the fact the game had naked trading cards or something...

[gepeto]

Really? I should pick that up! I almost bought a physical copy but didn't want to pay $50 for it.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.htm...cId=1000771881

Amazon has been kicking ass with there download division. Here is the febuary sale games as low as 1.24 Also saints row the third and darkness 2 are 25. Nba 2k12 10 bucks.

Witcher 2 I believe is the deluxe edition for 15 bucks. I couldn't pass up that deal considering all the hype it was getting when it was released.