Xbox’s surprise release Hi-Fi Rush reportedly outperformed Forspoken on Steam during both games’ debut week.
According to theSteamWeekly Global Top Sellers list onSteamDB, which lists the best-selling games on Steam by revenue made,Hi-Fi Rushcame in at number 8, whileForspokendidn’t make the top 10.
The difference is particularly notable in that Forspoken has been supported with a sizeable marketing campaign, whereasHi-Fi Rush appeared without any warningor prior reveal as part of last week’sXboxDeveloper Direct presentation.
As noted by games industry commentatorBenji-Sales on Twitter, the fact that Hi-Fi Rush is in the top 10 whereas Forspoken isn’t is further amplified by the fact thatMicrosoft‘s game costs £26.99 / $30 on Steam versus £64.99 / $70 for Forspoken.
Given that the chart goes by revenue rather than unit sales, Hi-Fi Rush would have to sell a few copies for each copy of Forspoken sold.
However, it should be noted, that SteamDB treats separate versions of each game as different products. As such, for example, theDead Spaceremake features four times in the top 10 – the standard edition, the Deluxe edition and the pre-order pages for each.
It’s also not clear how many people pre-ordered Forspoken in the period leading up to the past week, or purchased keys for the game from third-party Steam key sellers. These likely wouldn’t have counted in last week’s revenue chart and could take the game’s overall revenue much higher.
TheSquare Enixtitle, as well as costing significantly more, also has more demanding hardware requirements onPC, which could skew the sales in Hi-Fi Rush’s favour.
Further reading
Hi-Fi Rush is the latest game fromTango Gameworks, the studio founded byResident EvildirectorShinji Mikami. It’s a rhythm action game in which the aim is to time attacks to the beat to do more damage.
In VGC’sHi-Fi Rush review, we called it “a bombastic, colourful, occasionally grating rhythm action game”.
