How much revenue did Tales of Symphonia make?

$1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tales of Symphonia sell?

Q: How many copies did Tales of Symphonia sell?

216k to 351k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 216k–351k; $1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$4.9M before the cut; from 5k reviews (Very 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 Tales of Symphonia out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tales of Symphonia's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.0M–3.3M

best case 6.9M (NieR:Automata™)

Games like Tales of Symphonia

The middle of these games

≈ 2.0M–3.3M copies

≈ $20.1M–$67.2M after Steam's cut

from ~62k 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.

Best case: NieR:Automata™ at ≈ 5.3M–8.6M copies, ≈ $57.9M–$155.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 12k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 9k to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Anime (6 of 8) and JRPG (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Female Protagonist, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2024, and 1 of your 8 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 43 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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