"Horizon West" expected to lose $85 million in retail revenue after joining PS+
"Horizon West" expected to lose $85 million in retail revenue after joining PS+
Author : BitTopup | Publish at : 2023-12-21T02:28:48.000Z
["Horizon: West" is expected to lose $85 million in retail revenue after it is added to PS+] "Horizon: West" will be released in February 2022, and the game will be added to the PS+ game library a year later. According to the internal documents of the Insomnia Group released by hackers recently, the impact of this game on game sales will be huge after it is put into the library. Sony compared "Horizon: Zero Dawn" with its predecessor "Horizon: Zero Dawn". The data curves of the two in the first year of release were basically the same. After "Western" joined PS+, the gap between the two was obvious changes. It is reported that the sales revenue of "Despair of the West" is expected to increase by 30% year-on-year in the second year, reaching 124 million U.S. dollars. After joining PS+, Sony has lowered the forecast to 9% (35 million U.S. dollars), which means that retail revenue has lost nearly 85 million U.S. dollars. Dollar.
Having said that, "Horizon: West" is still performing very well from a business perspective. In May this year, the official announced that the game sales exceeded 8.4 million (excluding subscription data). After joining PS+, it also brought fresh blood to the game. . However, the phenomenon that sales are seriously affected after the game is put into the library seems to explain why Sony has always rejected the practice of joining the subscription service for the first time.