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Developer Wube Software announced on December 30th last year that the factory automation simulation gameFactorio]Published a blog article looking back on the events of 2022. Among them, it was revealed that the sales of this work exceeded 3.5 million copies.
“Factorio” is a simulation game set on a certain planet. We will develop technology based on the resources we obtain, automate resource excavation, transportation, refining, product production, etc., and build a huge industrial plant. This work started early access distribution on Steam in 2016 and was officially released in August 2020. It has been highly rated in Steam user reviews, earning it an “overwhelmingly popular” status, and the Nintendo Switch version was also released in October last year.
According to this announcement, sales of this work exceeded 3.5 million during the Christmas period last year. Looking back, it has been announced that 2.5 million units will be sold in February 2021, and 3 million units will be sold in February 2022, meaning that roughly 500,000 units are sold each year. In this work, it is possible to see how this work is selling strongly and stably because the policy of the developer is not to sell it.
In addition, sales of the Nintendo Switch version, which has been about two months since the start of distribution, were also mentioned. According to it, it has sold more than 40,000 copies at the moment, which is the number as expected by the developer. Looking at sales by country, it is particularly popular in Japan, and it seems that about 40% of the total sales of the Nintendo Switch version are from Japan. In other words, about 16,000 units have been sold in Japan.
Regarding the Nintendo Switch version, the developer has been working mainly on bug fixes after launch, and is currently aiming for small improvements to the cursor and vehicle driving elements. It is expected that an update will be released soon. In the future, we plan to add controller support for the PC version and Steam Deck, as well as full keyboard and mouse support for the Nintendo Switch version. This will take some time.
In addition, the numbers for 2022 on the mod portal of this work have also been released. According to it, a total of 638,886 players downloaded the mod 41,244,805 times (25,145,748 times excluding duplicates). In addition, 1221 mod creators were active, 1686 types of mods were produced, and 7227 types of mods were updated. As for the number of mods downloaded by users, 10 to 49 types are the most popular, accounting for 44.4% of the total.For more informationofficial blogPlease check
“Factorio” is a PC (Steam/GOG.com/Official site)andNintendo SwitchIt’s being delivered to
