Cyberpunk 2077 beats Gears of War: E-Day on Steam

During Steam's autumn sale, Cyberpunk 2077 climbed to third place on the platform's global revenue chart, ahead of Gears of War: E-Day, which came in at tenth right as it hit shelves on October 6. That's not nothing, but the "why" matters more than the ranking itself.

It's not really a head-to-head comparison

Before reading too much into the numbers, it helps to know that the chart measures in revenue, not copies sold. A game priced low enough can rack up strong revenue without necessarily outselling every title above or below it in raw unit count.

That detail matters a lot in this case, since the two games aren't playing on the same field. Cyberpunk 2077 is discounted 70%, and fully available to buy and play immediately. The new Gears of War: E-Day, meanwhile, was only released yesterday and launched straight onto Xbox Game Pass, meaning plenty of its players are accessing the game through a subscription rather than buying it on Steam at all. Comparing the two on a pure Steam revenue chart stacks the deck toward whichever title is cheaper and more widely purchasable right now, which happens to be Cyberpunk.

The discount is working well

Steam's current top of the chart puts Counter-Strike 2 first, AION 2 second, Cyberpunk 2077 third, and The Outlast Trials (discounted 90%) fourth. A steep price cut during a major sale event is reliably one of the fastest ways to climb that list, and 70% off is enough to get plenty of former players and newcomers to finally pull the trigger.

Cyberpunk 2077 saw a similar jump on this same chart back in autumn 2023, around the release of its Phantom Liberty expansion. Since then, CD Projekt Red has kept the game supported with patch 2.0, Phantom Liberty's content, and other updates, the kind of long-tail investment that tends to pay off exactly when a big discount brings eyes back to the game. A low price gets attention. A game that's actually improved over several years is what convinces people the discount is worth acting on.

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