{"id":120446,"date":"2020-11-09T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/11\/descenders_is_yet_another_switch_success_story_six-figure_revenue_earned_in_opening_weekend"},"modified":"2020-11-09T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T15:00:00","slug":"descenders-is-yet-another-switch-%ef%bb%bfsuccess-story-six-figure-revenue-earned-in-opening-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/11\/09\/descenders-is-yet-another-switch-%ef%bb%bfsuccess-story-six-figure-revenue-earned-in-opening-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Descenders Is Yet Another Switch \ufeffSuccess Story, Six-Figure Revenue Earned In Opening Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/3888436e14fbc\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/3888436e14fbc\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Descenders\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/3888436e14fbc\/descenders.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/3888436e14fbc\/descenders.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Descenders\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Last Friday saw the launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/descenders\">Descenders<\/a> on Nintendo Switch, an extreme downhill biking game that&#8217;s been available on Steam and other consoles for several months now. Despite already being out in the wild elsewhere, the game&#8217;s Switch launch has been a pretty major success.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Rose, of publisher No More Robots, has shared some fascinating statistics about the game&#8217;s launch on social media today. Rose says that the game is the team&#8217;s &#8220;biggest Switch launch ever&#8221;, earning a six-figure revenue in its opening weekend alone.<\/p>\n<p>The release caused the game&#8217;s total concurrent users to spike to 6,100, a total that&#8217;s 1,000 higher than the game&#8217;s previous record, and one that demonstrates just how many players are active and jumping into new releases on Switch. It even caused sales on other platforms to spike by 40%, too.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fun stats about the Descenders + Nintendo Switch launch weekend:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Our biggest Switch launch ever, 6 figure revenue<br \/>&#8211; Caused our total peak CCU (concurrent users) to spike to 6100 (a whole 1000 more than our previous record)<br \/>&#8211; Caused sales on Xbox\/PS4\/Steam to spike by 40% <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tlyzbmPQkr\">pic.twitter.com\/tlyzbmPQkr<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 Mike Rose (@RaveofRavendale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaveofRavendale\/status\/1325774589776064514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The news follows a string of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/10\/alwas_legacy_is_another_switch_success_story_blowing_steam_sales_out_of_the_water\">similar success stories<\/a> on Switch, with a number of indie publishers recently speaking out about how their games have performed surprisingly well on Nintendo&#8217;s console.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t played Descenders yet, we&#8217;d certainly recommend it. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/descenders\">our full review<\/a>, we said the Switch port is a surprisingly robust package that&#8217;s well worth a go, even with the graphical downgrade it&#8217;s received when compared to other versions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday saw the launch of Descenders on Nintendo Switch, an extreme downhill biking game that&#8217;s been available on Steam and other consoles for several months now. Despite already being out in the wild elsewhere, the game&#8217;s Switch launch has been a pretty major success. Mike Rose, of publisher No More Robots, has shared some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}