How much revenue did TEKKEN 8 make?

$19.8M–$53.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did TEKKEN 8 sell?

Q: How many copies did TEKKEN 8 sell?

1.8M to 2.9M copies, based on its 73k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.8M–2.9M; $19.8M–$53.4M after Steam's cut $36.1M–$82.1M before Steam's cut; from 73k reviews (Mixed)

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 TEKKEN 8 and predicted how it would do from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including TEKKEN 8's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.0M–3.0M

best case 4.3M (TEKKEN 7)

Games like TEKKEN 8

A typical game among these

≈ 2.0M–3.0M copies

≈ $43.1M–$56.3M after Steam's cut

from ~76k 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 4 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: TEKKEN 7 at ≈ 3.3M–5.3M copies, ≈ $36.2M–$97.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fighting (4 of 4) and 3D Fighter (2 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fighting + Competitive, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, and 1 of the 4 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 43 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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