Metro: Exodus was a game that a lot of people were looking forward to on launch day across PC via Steam, PS4, and Xbox One. That is, until two weeks before the FPS title launched it was pulled from Steam’s digital storefront. When Metro: Exodus became an Epic Games Store timed-exclusive, the only way Steam users could get the game is if they pre-ordered the game before the exclusive deal. As of today, Lars Wingefors — founder and CEO of THQ Nordic — talks about the success of Metro: Exodus on consoles and declines to elaborate on PC sales via the company’s Q5 2019 report.
According to the “extended financial year report” covering from January 1st, 2018 to March 31st, 2019, we learn that Metro: Exodus has performed within management’s range of “expectations.” We also learn that the FPS game has recouped all investments made in development and marketing as reported on mb.cision.com.
“Overall, the game [Metro: Exodus] has performed within management’s range of expectations and has recouped all investments made in development and marketing.”
Although Metro: Exodus pulled in enough funds to recoup all investments made in development and marketing, it sounds like it was only done through the power of PS4, and Xbox One, and not PC.
You can hear CEO Wingefors decline to unveil PC sales of Metro: Exodus by heading on over to tv.streamfabriken.com or by reading this handy summation of the Q5 2019 report by Twitter user Nathan:
Wingefors
– especially happy with the performance of #MetroExodus on digital platforms
– 'absolute majority' of the revenue comes from console platforms
– strong sales on both #PS4 and #XboxOne
– no comment on PC sales— DarkDetective (@DarkDetectiveNL) May 22, 2019
In any case, if an entity refuses to comment on the success of something to investors, it means it’s something that’s not remarkably positive. In other words, the Epic Games Store exclusivity deal did not send a large heap of people rushing to the PC platform to use Epic’s client to purchase and play Metro: Exodus.
So what can we draw from all of this? Metro: Exodus performed well on PS4 and Xbox One, but the game’s PC performance is a mystery even though it supposedly “sold 2.5X times better on the Epic Store than Metro: Last Light on Steam™.”
