How much revenue did DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO make?

$24.9M–$66.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO sell?

Q: How many copies did DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO 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; $24.9M–$66.8M after Steam's cut $45.2M–$102.8M before Steam's cut; from 73k 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 DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 718k–1.0M

best case 4.3M (TEKKEN 7)

Games like DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO

A typical game among these

≈ 718k–1.0M copies

≈ $9.8M–$10.8M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: TEKKEN 7 at ≈ 3.3M–5.3M copies, ≈ $36.2M–$97.2M 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 Fighting (7 of 8) and Anime (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fighting + Arcade, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Arcade + Local Multiplayer + Competitive; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 1 of the 8 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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TEKKEN 7 2017	Est. copies ≈ 3.3M–5.3M 5.3x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $36.2M–$97.2M after Steam's cut $65.7M–$149.5M before Steam's cut	$39.99	96k reviews Very Positive	FightingAction
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