Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3+4 wasn’t fairly nail the touchdown in the identical means Professional Skater 1+2 did, however was nonetheless an satisfying acid drop into the vert ramp of nostalgia. Nevertheless, as enjoyable because it was, the gross sales numbers are usually not trying sturdy.
On this week’s publication from Alinea Analytics, Rhys Elliot gave us a have a look at July’s most downloaded video games throughout Xbox, PlayStation and PC. Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3+4 ranked because the ninth highest on their chart, bringing in 1.9 million downloads. After all, the sport launched straight onto Recreation Go, which is the place most of these downloads got here from.
What’s actually fascinating, although, is that Elliot offered a solution to gauge gross sales. “…there sadly isn’t an excessive amount of to be stoked about sales-wise, as over 90% of those got here from Xbox because of its Recreation Go inclusion.”
So, if the sport had 1.9m downloads and at the least 90% of these have been from Recreation Go, meaning we will surmise that the sport solely bought about 190,000 copies throughout Xbox, PlayStation and Steam. That quantity could also be barely larger now, after all, but it surely’s nonetheless not nice.
In comparison with the primary recreation, Professional Skater 3+4 is doing a lot better by way of uncooked participant numbers, as Professional Skater 1+2 bought one million copies in its first two weeks. However as I’m certain you already found out, that’s gross sales and never simply gamers, so 1+2 carried out massively higher in that sense.
Today, although, it’s a lot tougher to gauge success as a result of Recreation Go works on utterly completely different metrics, and Microsoft aren’t sharing what these are – they may be very proud of Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3+4, which was rumoured to have been given simply 18 months of improvement and a small price range.
