STALKER 2 Passes Significant Sales Milestone

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  • STALKER 2 has already turned a profit as of December 18, just a week after its release.
  • GSC last said the game sold 1 million copies in its first 48 hours on the market, but that number may have doubled by now.
  • The budget for the game could be in the ballpark of $80 million.



STALKER 2: The heart of Chornobyl has turned a profit, a senior GSC Sports World official confirmed. This important sales milestone was hit just weeks later hunter 2The release of

The latest entry in GSC's immersive sim series launched on November 20. two days later, hunter 2 The Ukrainian developer has already sold one million copies, confirming as much in a social media post.

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Two days before the game's first-month anniversary, hunter 2 GSC boss Maxim Kripa told Forbes Ukraine, is already in the green. While he did not provide updated sales figures for the game, he did confirm that the project itself was budgeted in the “tens of millions of dollars”. Publicly available LinkedIn data suggests that GSC will have around 400 employees by the end of 2024. It can be conveniently assumed that this headcount was consistent from 2018 onwards. hunter 2 Development resumed — and using Glassdoor's estimate that the average Ukrainian game dev salary was $36,000 gross per year, it's possible that the game's budget was north of $80 million.



STALKER 2 may have sold almost 2 million copies already

Taking a 30% storefront cut into account, GSC earns about $42 from each copy. hunter 2 The standard version, which costs $59.99. Assuming an $80 million budget, the company would have had to sell about 1.9 million copies to break even. However, if this budget estimate is correct, the studio likely had a slightly lower break-even target, as some sales include high-end Deluxe and Ultimate editions priced at $79.99 and $109.99, respectively. The same goes for the fact that the game is also available on the Epic Game Store, which takes a lower, 12% sales cut, but likely accounts for its lower sales.


STALKER's future looks bright

However, with Kripa now confirming that the project is already in the green, it is possible hunter 2 As of December 18, sales were in the ballpark of 2 million copies. Its strong commercial momentum is great news for fans of the series, as it increases the chances of another game being greenlit in the future.

All the more impressive in light of the fact that GSC turned a profit in less than a month hunter 2 Launched on Xbox Series X/S and PC only. A potential PlayStation port would be all but guaranteed to boost its lifetime sales tally. And while a PS5 version of the game hasn't been officially confirmed, a court filing that surfaced in the Epic v Apple case in mid-2021 revealed that Microsoft only secured a three-month exclusivity period. hunter 2. It is unclear if anything has changed since then and if GSC is already actively working on a PS5 version of the game.

Source: Glassdoor, Screen Rant

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