Rage 2 is apparently not selling as we🦩ll as t🍷he original game did, according to the UK Boxed Charts.
Rage 2 is not selling well. Is this a surprise? Not really. The original game didn’t sell particularly great to start with, and while Rage 1 received mostly positive reviews, Rage 2 is receivin🥀g some definitively mixed opini🐠ons from critics.
On top of that, the original game ended o🐼n a do-nothing cliffhanger🍸 that really didn’t engender a whole lot of desire from fans to see what happens in the sequel.
In case you weren’t around last week, Rage 2 came out thanks to the combined efforts of Avalanche Studios and id Software. Apparently not having a lot else to do at the moment, Bethesda gave their marketing network over to Rage 2 and filled a whole bunch of social media timelines to let everyone know there’s a new Rage game out there, even though literally nobody asked for a Rage sequel. Which might explain why it took them 💙the better part of 8 years to come out with onꦉ.
Predictably, sales of Rage 2 are not very good. According to (who get their numbers from the UK Boxed Chart), physical sales of Rage 2 are aboไut a quarter of what the original’s were in the first week.
Worse, Rage 2 came out on a Tuesday, while the original Rage came out on a Friday. That means Rage 2 had three extra days ꦯto make up sales, but it still didn’t eve𓄧n get close.
It should be noted that digital sales make up for a significantly larger portion in 2019 than they did in 2011, with GamesIndustry.biz quoting about 50% today as opposed to 25% back in 2011. But even doubling the numbers still don’t make Rage 2 out to be much of a money maker.
It’s impossible to know for sure, however, as Bethesda doesn’t publish their digital sales numbers. It’s not impossible for Rage 2 downloads to beat out phys🐟ical discs, but it’s doubtful.
Steam numbers aren’t looking that great either. According to , concurrent player numbers peaked at 13,951 just after release, and have been dwindling since then. That’s unsurprising, as Rage 2 has no ♔multiplayer and a relatively short campaign to play through.