Rage 2 physical sales are down 75% on the original
Rage 2 released last week, finally letting players go blasting across id Software and Avalanche Studio’s take on the apocalypse. But despite the promised carnage on offer, it seems that the game’s sales figures aren’t living up to to its predecessor.
Rage 2 did manage to top the UK’s physical charts, which is something that the original game, which released a week after FIFA 12 back in 2011, was never able to achieve. However, according to retail data from gamesindustry.biz, despite that bump in the charts, physical copies of the game are just 25% of what was achieved by the original Rage.
It’s worth noting, of course, that the UK isn’t an enormous market, and that physical game sales have been on a downturn for years thanks to the rise in digital downloads. That said, Games Sales Data suggests that the physical/digital split in the UK is around 50/50 on console. Not counting for PC, where digital sales are likely to have made up the lion’s share, that would imply Rage 2 has only sold around half as many copies as Rage.
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