Research and analysis firm Alinea Analytics reports that ARC Raiders, the new third-person extraction shooter from Embark Studios, has reached 2.5 million copies sold across all platforms in its debut week, with the vast majority of those sales coming from PC players.
According to Alinea Analytics, across PlayStation, Xbox, and PC, 69% of ARC Raiders sales came from PC players on Steam, with 17.3% coming from PlayStation players and the remaining 13% coming from Xbox players.
It was already clear that ARC Raiders was having a strong commercial start when it surpassed 200K concurrent players on Steam on its launch day (and eventually hit over 260K). As its debut week came to a close, analysts predicted it had sold somewhere between 1.6 and 1.9 million copies.
The real number is, thankfully for Embark Studios, even higher than those predictions, as the studio also collects well over $100 million in revenue from the game being on the market for one week. It's handily a bigger launch than Embark Studio's other major multiplayer game, The Finals, and could very well outlast it partly because of its different approach as a premium release and not a free-to-play title.
Of course, the new extraction shooter still has a long way to go. It passed the first hurdle for a multiplayer game by having a great launch, and now the real test becomes its capacity for longevity. Right now, ARC Raiders has yet to fall below 90K concurrent players on Steam, and even its dip below 100K was only for a very short period of time.
If we're still seeing numbers like that from ARC Raiders in a year, then we'll have a much better sample size for how successful this game can really be. Speaking of what's to come for ARC Raiders, Embark Studios has already put out a roadmap for the game's updates for the rest of the year, which you can check out here.
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