Roller Champions’ success is a bit harder to measure since, well, it’s a free-to-play title. SteamDB reveals a peak concurrent player count of just 455, which is just a few days after it launched. Yes, not even in The NPD Group’s best-selling titles for February and March 2022.
It debuted in 18th place in Gfk’s UK physical sales charts and was pretty much never heard from again after that. Even the peak concurrent player count on Steam was a mere 1,651 players.Īnother game which likely suffered due to releasing too close to Elden Ring and Horizon Forbidden West is Codemasters’ GRID Legends.
Blame it on the lack of marketing buzz, the shadows of Elden Ring and Horizon Forbidden West, or something else, but when released on March 1st, 2022, it was nowhere to be seen in Gfk’s UK physical sales charts or GSD’s digital sales charts. Shadow Warrior 3 was intriguing in how it not only went with a super-linear approach to its levels but also stuck to previous-gen consoles and PC. Even the Steam numbers were nothing to write home about, with a peak concurrent total of 14,086 players in its lifetime. Though it managed sixth place in its debut in Japan, it only sold 10,144 units in its first week. Not only that, but it sold 80 percent less than The Evil Within 2 in the UK, which was considered to have performed poorly at launch. It debuted in 12th place for The NPD Group’s March 2022 charts, and in 11thth place for Gfk’s UK physical game charts. Tango Gameworks’ Ghostwire Tokyo was one of the premiere PS5 console exclusives this year and sadly didn’t perform up to par. Couple that with poor critical reception, and its failure is understandable.
ROLLER CHAMPIONS PLAYER COUNT PS4
Then again, when released last year in Japan, it barely hit 16,000 units sold on PS4 and Nintendo Switch. It also had only 177 peak concurrent players on Steam in the West. That’s probably why it wasn’t mentioned anywhere in Gfk’s physical sales charts for the week. You could call Monark another victim of Elden Ring’s overwhelming presence, especially in Europe, where it launched on the same day as the Souls-like. However, given how popular Crossfire’s multiplayer is in China and South Korea (with over $1 billion in revenue each year since 2014), this won’t hurt Smilegate’s bottom line one bit. Lo and behold, it didn’t chart anywhere in The NPD Group’s February 2022 sales rankings, nor did it warrant a mention in Gfk’s physical charts for the UK. With a whopping 38 out of 100 Metascore and lacklustre marketing, it was somewhat expected that CrossfireX wouldn’t do great. Either because there wasn’t much hype around it, or other big titles took all the attention, the collection just didn’t resonate.
ROLLER CHAMPIONS PLAYER COUNT PC
Its PC version is a completely different story, though, hitting a peak concurrent player count of only 10,851 on Steam when it was released in October.
Pretty good, even if it didn’t hit the top 20 for The NPD Group’s best-selling games for the month. When the remastered duo launched for PS5 in January, it debuted in fifth place on Gfk’s UK physical sales charts. Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection (on PC) Unfortunately, it also saw a fair number of sales flops and underwhelming releases. Elden Ring, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, God of War Ragnarok, FIFA 23, the list goes on. Even if sales were down in certain months compared to recent years, 2022 has seen several massive sellers.
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