Metro Exodus has been doing very properly on Steam, regardless of the one-year delay.
Metro Exodus had maybe the ugliest case of leaping ship from Steam to the Epic Games Store. After being obtainable to pre-order on Steam for months, writer Deep Silver pulled it off sale with out warning.
It seems, that was as a result of the game had been picked up by Epic to be an EGS unique. Valve wasn’t happy, and neither have been those that anticipated the game to launch on Steam in 2019, inflicting a massive campaign of review-bombing of older Metro games.
When it grew to become clear that the scenario might have been dealt with higher, Deep Silver mum or dad firm mentioned that the choice to go along with Epic was entirely Koch Media’s. One 12 months later, Metro Exodus arrived on Steam as promised, and with a beneficiant launch low cost.
According to Embracer Group CEO Lars Wingefors, the launch has been successful. Embracer is the mum or dad firm for THQ Nordic, and Deep Silver.
“I was happy to see it performing well, selling about 200,000 copies already,” Wingefors mentioned as a part of the group’s Q3 earnings call.
Wingefors was additionally shocked to see that “one big country in Asia” – doubtless referring to China – made up the game’s largest viewers on Steam.
Although Embracer by no means revealed gross sales figures for the Epic Store, the corporate beforehand mentioned that its income was higher than PS and Xbox stores, regardless of promoting extra copies on consoles overall compared to PC.
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