75% of Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition Nintendo Switch 2 Sales Were Physical, CD Projekt Reveals

75% of Cyberpunk 2077's Nintendo Switch 2 income were physical, CD Projekt has confirmed.

CD Projekt revealed the eye-catching stat successful its latest fiscal results, confirming that not lone did the action-RPG payment from positioning itself arsenic 1 of Nintendo Switch 2's day-one motorboat games, but it besides recovered occurrence by making the crippled disposable arsenic carnal media.

"We judge that acknowledgment to its precocious prime and Switch 2 exclusive enhancements, Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition is good positioned to payment from the [Switch 2's] increasing idiosyncratic base," said Michał Novakovski, associated CEO. "As of June, the immense bulk of income — which is astir 70% — came from carnal copies sold and that reflects the spot of our offering."

Switch 2 owners preferred the carnal mentation of Cyberpunk 2077.

Novakovski believes this is, successful part, due to the fact that "the full game, on with its expansion, is afloat contained connected a 64 gigabyte cartridge, providing a plug and play acquisition which players find peculiarly attractive." And that has surely proven to beryllium the case, with 75.4% of each Cyberpunk 2077's Switch 2 income being physical.

It comes arsenic fans proceed to statement the signifier of publishers providing Game-Key Cards successful Switch 2 boxed games alternatively of a carnal cartridge. It's proven to beryllium a divisive signifier among immoderate users, not slightest due to the fact that portion it allows collectors to person a game's container connected their shelf, they're fundamentally useless unless your console is connected to the internet.

The signifier is truthful controversial, however, that Nintendo has launched a survey designed to canvass the Switch 2 userbase connected its thoughts surrounding integer and carnal games, with questions designed to probe the reasons you mightiness see 1 enactment implicit another. Nintendo's besides funny successful uncovering retired if your cognition to integer downloads has shifted implicit time.

"Our developers genuinely made the astir of the console’s features, offering caller exclusive ways to play Cyberpunk 2077," Novakovski added. "We showcased them successful a bid of hands connected presentations attracting praise from the subordinate assemblage and gaming media. And though we intelligibly spot that income of the connected the caller console are presently dominated by Nintendo’s archetypal enactment titles, we were precise pleased with Cyberpunk being among the champion selling 3rd enactment games."

"The Switch 2 mightiness battalion overmuch amended hardware than the original, but a crippled I’m inactive amazed to spot moving astatine each (much little beauteous well) connected a Nintendo strategy is Cyberpunk 2077," we wrote successful our Nintendo Switch 2 Cyberpunk 2007 reappraisal update. "I spent a fewer days with CD Projekt Red’s latest larboard to get a consciousness for however it runs, however it holds up, and however the Switch 2’s fancy caller rodent controls enactment erstwhile applied to a high-octane FPS. The reply crossed the committee is impressive, and if you haven’t had the pleasance of exploring Night City before, this seems similar a coagulated mode to bash so."

Cyberpunk 2077 sequel Cyberpunk 2 has officially entered pre-production. The workplace made the announcement arsenic portion of its latest fiscal results past month, wherever it said the Phantom Liberty enlargement for Cyberpunk 2077 had deed an awesome 10 cardinal copies sold.

As for Nintendo's handheld itself? The Nintendo Switch 2 debuted successful June to go the fastest-selling hardware ever successful the U.S., shooting spending connected games to caller records. Spending connected hardware was up a whopping 249% year-over-year acknowledgment to the console's debut, reaching $978 cardinal and greatly surpassing the erstwhile monthly grounds from June 2008 of $608 million. In total, the Switch 2 sold 1.6 cardinal units successful the U.S. during its motorboat month, beating the PlayStation 4's erstwhile income grounds of 1.1 cardinal units successful November of 2013.

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.