How much revenue did Yakuza Kiwami 2 (Legacy) make?

Yakuza Kiwami 2 (Legacy) is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Yakuza Kiwami 2 (Legacy) sell?

Q: How many copies did Yakuza Kiwami 2 (Legacy) sell?

508k to 825k copies, based on its 18k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 508k–825k; from 18k 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 Kiwami 2 (Legacy) and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Yakuza Kiwami 2 (Legacy)'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.4M–9.0M

best case 32.0M (Cyberpunk 2077)

Games like Yakuza Kiwami 2 (Legacy)

A typical game among these

≈ 7.4M–9.0M copies

≈ $116.3M–$133.0M after Steam's cut

from ~226k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Story Rich (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Cyberpunk 2077 at ≈ 24.4M–39.6M copies, ≈ $402.0M–$1080.8M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 55k reviews in their first month; the range was 8k to 326k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (4 of 8) and FPS (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry FPS + Cyberpunk + Open World; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 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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