Developer Starbreeze has launched its personal earnings report for the second quarter of 2022. Though the corporate continues to function at a loss, it is also at work on different initiatives past the beforehand introduced Payday 3. Through this, the developer goals to “guarantee that there’s a long-term and differentiated
income mannequin to assist strengthen Starbreeze as an organization,” wrote CEO Tobias Sjögren.
Beginning in 2019 and following the ousting of then-CEO Bo Andersson, Starbreeze discovered itself in a monetary bind that it is slowly, however certainly starting to get out of because the studio continues to work on Payday 2 content material and Payday 3.
The second quarter for the Payday 2 maker noticed 31.8 SEK ($2.9 million) in web gross sales, a near-five p.c lower from 2021’s second quarter. Almost all of these web gross sales may be attributed to the Payday franchise for the three-month interval that ended on June 30, 2022. The franchise raked in 30 million SEK ($2.8 million) in that point interval.
For Payday 2 particularly, and adjusting for alternate price, gross sales dropped by 25 p.c at quarter’s begin. Starbreeze expects that decline to proceed into the third quarter, and acknowledged that the discharge of different large video games by the quarter contributed to the lower.
That stated, it argued that it was nonetheless “effectively positioned” for optimistic gross sales within the upcoming quarter. “Payday 2 is a recreation that, resulting from its
age, has a comparatively low price ticket in comparison with the brand new
video games,” continued Sjögren. “And as all the time, we’ve
a number of PAYDAY 2 releases which can contribute positively to
gross sales within the coming quarter.”
Payday 3 is on observe to launch in 2023, the report reiterated, and can nonetheless be printed by Plaion (previously Koch Media). Development was stated within the report back to proceed “in response to plan,” and Starbreeze plans to make sure it would have a “sturdy and profitable launch.”
Briefly within the report, Starbreeze touched on its future. While it will develop different “video games and leisure merchandise” associated to the Payday IP, it is also begun to develop new IP and video games. Following Payday 3, Starbreeze will work on its subsequent title. “We
are engaged on a number of fronts to develop our subsequent recreation with
a view to launch in 2025.”
