Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 wasn’t fairly nail the touchdown in the identical manner Professional Skater 1+2 did, however was nonetheless an fulfilling acid drop into the vert ramp of nostalgia. Nevertheless, as enjoyable because it was, the gross sales numbers usually are not wanting sturdy.
In this week’s newsletter from Alinea Analytics, Rhys Elliot gave us a take 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 Sport Go, which is the place most of these downloads got here from.
What’s actually attention-grabbing, although, is that Elliot offered a approach 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 resulting from its Sport Go inclusion.”
So, if the sport had 1.9m downloads and no less than 90% of these have been from Sport Go, meaning we will surmise that the sport solely offered about 190,000 copies throughout Xbox, PlayStation and Steam. That quantity could also be barely increased now, after all, nevertheless it’s nonetheless not nice.
In comparison with the primary recreation, Professional Skater 3+4 is doing a lot better when it comes to uncooked participant numbers, as Professional Skater 1+2 offered 1,000,000 copies in its first two weeks. However as I’m certain you already discovered, that’s gross sales and never simply gamers, so 1+2 carried out massively higher in that sense.
Nowadays, although, it’s a lot tougher to gauge success as a result of Sport Go works on fully totally different metrics, and Microsoft aren’t sharing what these are – they is likely to be very pleased with Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3+4, which was rumoured to have been given simply 18 months of improvement and a small finances.
