In their debut week, Hi-Fi Rush outperformed Forspoken on Steam
Hi-Fi Rush outperformed Forspoken on Steam during both games’ debut week.
According to the Steam Weekly Global Top Sellers list on SteamDB, which lists the best-selling games on Steam by revenue made, Hi-Fi Rush came in at number 8, while Forspoken didn’t make the top 10.
The difference is particularly notable in that Forspoken has been supported with a sizeable marketing campaign, whereas Hi-Fi Rush appeared without any warning or prior reveal as part of last week’s Xbox Developer Direct presentation.
As noted by games industry commentator Benji-Sales on Twitter, the fact that Hi-Fi Rush is in the top 10 whereas Forspoken isn’t is further amplified by the fact that Microsoft‘s game costs £26.99 / $30 on Steam versus £64.99 / $70 for Forspoken.
Given that the chart goes by revenue rather than unit sales, Hi-Fi Rush would have to sell a few copies for each copy of Forspoken sold.
It should be noted, however, that SteamDB treats separate versions of each game as a different product. As such, for example, the Dead Space remake features four times in the top 10 – the standard edition, the Deluxe edition and the pre-order pages for each.
It’s not clear how many people pre-ordered Forspoken in the period leading up to the past week – these previous pre-orders likely wouldn’t have counted in last week’s chart.
Hi-Fi Rush is the latest game from Tango Gameworks, the studio founded by Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami. It’s a rhythm action game in which the aim is to time attacks to the beat in order to do more damage.
In VGC’s Hi-Fi Rush review, we called it “a bombastic, colourful, occasionally grating rhythm action game”.
“Hi-Fi Rush is oozing with style and confidence, but like a messy first album, there are some deep cut tracks
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