How much revenue did Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit make?

Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit sell?

Q: How many copies did Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit sell?

1.3M to 2.1M copies, based on its 20k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.3M–2.1M; from 20k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 321k–1.3M

best case 5.0M (Need for Speed™ Heat)

Games like Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit

The middle of these games

≈ 321k–1.3M copies

≈ $2.4M–$22.4M after Steam's cut

from ~12k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Need for Speed™ Heat at ≈ 3.8M–6.2M copies, ≈ $73.3M–$197.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 358 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 175 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Racing (8 of 8) and Combat Racing (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Open World, priced around $70.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2022, 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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Need for Speed™ Rivals 2020	Est. copies ≈ 263k–427k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.9M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$6.0M before the cut	$19.99	11k reviews Mostly Positive	RacingDriving
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