Action survival horror The Callisto Pootocol attracted significant attention even before its release. The game was talked about as a spiritual heir to the Dead Space series, the publisher itself, represented by Krafton, even spoke about the first AAAA game. However, subsequent reviews and player reactions showed clearly visible flaws, which were also accompanied by inconsistent optimizations. They were the result slightly above average reviewswhich, according to the Metacritic aggregator, are just below the 70% mark.
In addition, recently published information from the Korean agency Yonhap shows that the game did not live up to expectations even in terms of sales. The information comes from several different securities trading companies. According to Samsung Securities, publisher Krafton expected The Callisto Protocol to reach 5 million copies sold. However, given current sales, the game should be out by the end of this year. reaching “only” 2 million copies.
A similar opinion is shared by Korea Investment & Securities, which estimates the sale of the game at 2.1 million copies by the end of this year. The development of the game and its marketing were to cost 200 billion Korean won, which is is about 162 million dollars. To break even, the game had to sell an originally estimated 4-5 million copies. Given current statistics and this year’s outlook, this goal is still far away and unlikely to be achieved in the foreseeable future.
The developers from the Striking Distance studio are currently they are working on additional content, which should bring, for example, a hardcore mode, a new game plus or new story content. You can learn more about the Callisto protocol from our overview.
Source : Zing
