Praised by gamers around the world, the new Farming Simulator gets off to a record-breaking start on the eve of the last Christmas sprint. No less than a million players have already acquired this new version developed by the Giants Software studio and published by Focus Home Interactive on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles. This is almost double the sales made at the launch of the previous edition, which sold over two years to more than 3 million copies.
The PC remains the first platform for Farming Simulator with half of sales made. Gamers are also at the rendezvous, with more than 220 copies downloaded on the Steam platform. Although the game was only released on two consoles (compared to 000 for the 4 edition), the same phenomenon operates on consoles. So Farming Simulator 2015 is, despite the competition from the end-of-year Blockbusters:
- N ° 1 in store sales in all formats when it was released in Germany
- N ° 3 in Scandinavia
- No. 4 in France
- # 5 in England
Thomas Frey, Creative Director of GIANTS, said: “To reach over a million players in such a short period of time is simply amazing. We are very happy to see that the game has been so well received, thus rewarding all the efforts of our team as well as all the people who have joined us during the adventure, making Farming Simulator 17 our biggest project. never realized. "
Same story with the publisher of the game, "Farming Simulator was a game for enthusiasts, with the 2017 version it became the experience of the moment for a very large audience who needed to be offered new things in the game. video, comments Cédric Lagarrigue, President of Focus Home Interactive. Farming Simulator fans, already numerous at the rendezvous, seem to have been conquered by all the improvements of this new opus and its incredible content. "