How much revenue did Yakuza 6: The Song of Life make?

$1.1M–$3.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Yakuza 6: The Song of Life sell?

Q: How many copies did Yakuza 6: The Song of Life sell?

208k to 337k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 208k–337k; $1.1M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.7M before Steam's cut; from 8k reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Yakuza 6: The Song of Life and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Yakuza 6: The Song of Life's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8.7M–25.2M

best case 37.7M (ELDEN RING)

Games like Yakuza 6: The Song of Life

A typical game among these

≈ 8.7M–25.2M copies

≈ $174.8M–$212.5M after Steam's cut

from ~290k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: ELDEN RING at ≈ 28.7M–46.6M copies, ≈ $473.6M–$1273.3M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (8 of 8) and Exploration (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World, priced around $55. The breakout hits carry Souls-like + Dark Fantasy + Difficult; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2023, and none of them shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition unreleased	Est. copies ≈ 5.1M–8.2M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	204k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAction
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