Take-Two: The Outer Worlds Has Sold 2 Million Units, Borderlands 3 Sold 8 Million

Take-Two Interactive's CEO Strauss Zelnick has given an update on the commercial performance of The Outer Worlds and Borderlands 3.

[Sgt_Slaughter]

Borderlands 3 sales are really odd. So many copies sold in one week (5 Million) vs a slow crawl since (3 Million from mid-September 2019 to Feb 2020).

[KillBill]

Borderlands has been a series that caters more to its fanbase than not. Unfortunately a lot of people that haven't played a Borderlands title simply aren't drawn to it and are missing out on a really good series. So it basically quickly sells to the fanbase and after that is the smaller market of a few curious and fanbase that wasn't able to buy at launch.

[jeromeface]

The story and comedy was a let down this time around, staples of the series. Sales reflect this. Also bad calls like epic game store exclusivity.

[Christopher]

***Also bad calls like epic game store exclusivity.***

Guarantee that had practically no affect on sales. The fact that B3 sold 50% more than its predecessor in its first week should tell people that. Only the hardcore "anti-EGS" people were affected, most Borderlands fans picked it up if they play on PC.

[REDGUM]

Considering that a lot of gamers and readers out there said that Borderlands was going to flop, more of the same etc to sell 8 million plus copies is pretty darn good I recon.

[DafunkyRebel]

Damn shame that the outer worlds didn’t sold as well as Fallout 4. That game didn’t deserve our money nor does Bethesda, except when it’s doom

[FallenAngel1984]

Comparing sales of a new IP to an established one?

[Christopher]

Fallout 4 sold well because of New Vegas and Fallout 3. The Outer Worlds is a new IP with no fanbase behind it.

I don't think either selling what they did is an indicator of which is the better game, just of the existence of a fanbase versus the lack thereof.

[Immagaiden]

Borderlands 3 deserves it

[Zombieburger638]

It's OK, Borderlands 2 is a much better game imo.

[RememberThe357]

Anything with Tiny Tina is a masterpiece.

[AK91]

That’s so depressing, Outer Worlds deserves more than that I know it won’t beat beat an established franchise like Memelands but still it deserves more sales than 2 mil.

[MadLad]

That's rather good for a new IP. Working on a fairly small budget no less.
With MS' marketing, I can see a sequel doubling those sales, on the minimum.

[AK91]

We might not get a sequel to this considering its an IP owned by Private Division (iirc) and considering MS now owns Obsidian we will probably only get GaaS games like that bug game they are developing for MS.

[MadLad]

Nah. Private Division was purely a publisher. The rights are owned by Obsidian (Microsoft).

I don't really understand why everyone keeps stating they assume MS is going to release nothing but service games. They bought a bunch of studios that don't have much experience in that field.
The Obsidian game you're talking about was in development prior to their acquisition, and being handled by a smaller sub steam within the company. Much like Outer Worlds.

Two of the three games (that we know of) being worked on by Ninja Theory are anything but service titles.
InXile is working on Wasteland 3 and a remaster of the original.
Obsidian has a new rpg IP in the works and, realistically, a sequel to Outer Worlds, along with dlc for the original.
Playground games is working an a new rpg IP as well.

[sdplisken]

Cant wait to get both of these after a price drop

[Fraggle1987]

Outer worlds was dissapointing to me.

[MadLad]

I thoroughly enjoyed it. I think that Disco Elysium and Greedfall were far better roleplaying experiences overall, but still really enjoyed the game.

A solid framework to work off of. They need deeper party interaction. Vary the gunplay with more diversified weapons/armor and talents. Deepen the stealth mechanics, and balance out the loot. You had far too much ammo and hacking tools at your disposal.

A bigger budget sequel, with the issues ironed out, really could be GOTY material.

[gold_drake]

proud of borderlands 3 :)

[waverider]

The next one, without the sony gamers it will flop. This is what those numbers of outer worlds means.

[Christopher]

Considering those stats don't tell us how many people played it on GamePass, I don't see how you can make such a statement.

[waverider]

Gamepass? Are You kidding. Something selling for one or two bucks giving profit for a Triple A game? Maybe if Microsoft got 10 or 15 millions monthly subscribers and even so...

[MadLad]

Wait until you see the sales shift once on Steam. Take whatever credit you wish. I'm sure PS4 accounts for the majority platform.
The next game will be on PC/Xbox only, all the same; and the sales will most certainly clear the current 2 million number.

[2ndhandcorn]

Only lasted an hour on Outer worlds glad i got try it for a dollar though , not a big open world resource manager fan .