How much revenue did SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics make?

SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics sell?

Q: How many copies did SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics sell?

771k to 1.3M copies, based on its 12k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 771k–1.3M; from 12k reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.8M–17.5M

best case 20.5M (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition)

Games like SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics

The middle of these games

≈ 6.8M–17.5M copies

≈ $76.4M–$141.2M after Steam's cut

from ~212k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is First-Person (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition at ≈ 15.6M–25.4M copies, ≈ $172.0M–$462.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (3 of 8) and Open World (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Fantasy, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2004 to 2020, 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 79 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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