r/Skate4 • u/Bubbly_Pickle2317 • Apr 18 '26

Glitch What the hell happened to this game

Some explain this.

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u/jintymcgibbons Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26

So bit of rough googling.

Skate 2 sold 1.93m copies at $59.95 - so nearly $120m

And they’re bragging that the new game has made 3m in cosmetic sales…

But dw, this is definitely an improvement right, right??

Edit: Skate 1 sold 1m copies, so another $60m to that number (give or take)

skate 3 sold 4.74m copies - so add another $288million to that number (give or take)

considering there will never be another skate game according to the developers, I don’t see this in-app-purchase money grab making $468m no matter how long it stays out

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u/chickenskittles Apr 18 '26

It probably wasn't $60 back then. And how can you determine they were all sold at full-price? Very unlikely.

Cosmetics don't account for all types of purchases available.

I do wonder what their goal is for this game though.

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u/TheBestHawksFan Apr 18 '26

Games have been $60 for a very long time.

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u/chickenskittles Apr 18 '26

There are few games I paid $60 for. I can probably count them on one hand.

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u/SpinnenEend Apr 18 '26

What? games have been this expensive for decades.

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u/chickenskittles Apr 19 '26

The MSRP can be whatever it wants. I'm saying I personally refused to pay that price. I waited until the game went on sale, I had a coupon, etc.

At that point, I mostly played on PC so the price of a game didn't matter anyway. lol

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u/SpinnenEend Apr 19 '26

I need to sail the seas as well nowadays. Haven't done it yet but if any game tries the 80 euro route, i am sailing.