Lies Of P Has Sold 1 Million Copies Already, Despite Its Inclusion With Xbox Game Pass

It's still selling very well!

by Ben Kerry Tue 17th Oct 2023

Lies Of P Has Sold 1 Million Copies Already, Despite Its Inclusion With Xbox Game Pass

Lies of P has been a bit of a hit for publisher Neowiz - as evidenced by the title reaching a mighty impressive sales milestone less than a month after launch. The team's new soulslike has just passed one million units sold - not bad for a title that launched on Xbox Game Pass.

Yep, Lies of P was a day one addition to the service across Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC, and it's still sold a million copies in a month. That's pretty good going!

Of course, you have a pretty substantial PlayStation audience to account for here, alongside Steam which currently doesn't support an Xbox Game Pass subscription. The game has almost 10k ratings on Steam at the time of writing, so it's definitely proved popular on Valve's PC platform.

We're big fans of this soulslike here at Pure Xbox too. When playing through the title last month, we had a blast - granting Lies of P an 8/10 score and dubbing it one of "the best soulslikes" we've played to date.

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Did you buy Lies of P? Or did you play it on Xbox Game Pass? Please tell no lies down below.

Ben is a News Writer at Pure Xbox, and is a fan of action, racing and straight-up shootin' in any Xbox game he can get his hands on. When he's not clutching an Xbox controller like his life depends on it, Ben spends his time listening to music that's far too old for him, watching football on the telly and probably eating somewhere.

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RazputinAquato
Tue 17th Oct 2023

That's a really great game. Probably the best soulslike not developed by From. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft went after Neowiz for an acquisition after this hit, Phil Spencer talked about pursuing more studios in East Asia.

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InterceptorAlpha
Tue 17th Oct 2023

Seeing thins like this honestly make me wonder if it'll make more developers shy away from Xbox and Gamepass in general.

Was it worth the development of an Xbox version and the the contracted about? Or would it just be better in the future to skip it and get their sales from elsewhere.

Sadly, until we're privy to the numbers developers get on Gamepass contracts it will be hard to predict until it actually starts happening.

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Fenbops
Tue 17th Oct 2023

Great game glad to see its success. I’ve been chipping away at it and am currently at the end of chapter 6. It runs at a flawless 60fps and looks great, I thought it may have gotten lost in the shuffle but it’s not the case. Great stuff.

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RazputinAquato
Tue 17th Oct 2023

@InterceptorAlpha I didn't buy Lies of P, but I actually "sold" at least two copies to my friends who own Playstations. Maybe Lies of P would not sell one million copies so fast without Game Pass and the word of mouth it brings to the table.

My friends were on the fence about this game, but I told them how much it looks like Bloodborne and how good this game is and they decided to buy it right away, instead of waiting for a sale.

Not to mention that no company is forced to sign a deal to put their games on Game Pass. The studio received an offer and they decided to accept it.

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VoidPunk
Tue 17th Oct 2023

I think MS is doing a good job moving people away from thinking about success in terms of purely “sold copies” Netflix (before they lost like half their market share) killed juggernauts without “selling” a single dvd.

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JayJ
Tue 17th Oct 2023

I don't see how Gamepass could have a bad effect on sales, if anything it's good marketing, there's a lot of games I bought because I played them on Gamepass first.

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PsBoxSwitchOwner
Tue 17th Oct 2023

@InterceptorAlpha I mean wouldn’t they just develop it for Xbox and not put it on GPU?! And get sales from everyone?

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PsBoxSwitchOwner
Tue 17th Oct 2023

@JayJ I guess there’s a lot of people that conversely say ‘I’ll wait till it hits GP/Plus’ … seen alot of that today just on dead space alone.

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InterceptorAlpha
Tue 17th Oct 2023

@PsBoxSwitchOwner Not if the numbers show the likelihood of being purchased on Xbox is significantly less due people having enough to play via Gamepass. Same reason you see other games skip Xbox all together.

I'm actually one of those numbers to be honest. I rarely buy a game on Xbox unless it is disc based and going for less. 90% of my purchases are on Steam or Switch or VR.

Also, you can reply to more than one person at the same time.

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JayJ
Tue 17th Oct 2023

@PsBoxSwitchOwner I've said that before, so it can be give and take, but it's not like things are different with PS+ tiers.

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PsBoxSwitchOwner
Tue 17th Oct 2023

@InterceptorAlpha PlayStation users still buy games, despite having more games available on plus vs GPU (obviously no day one etc etc).

There is more than enough Series consoles out there to warrant a port GP or not. If you release a high quality game, people will buy it

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Doublecell
Wed 18th Oct 2023

Final fantasy 16 sold 3 million in it's first week and that was a "flop" soooooo

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themightyant
Wed 18th Oct 2023

@RazputinAquato This is exactly what I was saying over on PushSquare. The interesting question is: Would Lies of P have sold 1 million if it wasn't on Game Pass? Yes it would have gained some Xbox & PC sales lost to Game Pass. But it also would have lost many from all the additional recommendations and news coverage it got by being 'Free' and having more players. Mindshare matters.

It's also why F2P or low budget games are queuing up to try and get on subscriptions services and get people to TRY the game to emulate the success of things like Rocket League, Fall Guys etc.

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themightyant
Wed 18th Oct 2023

PsBoxSwitchOwner wrote:

‘I’ll wait till it hits GP/Plus’

I think the reality is that isn't a 'lost sale', certainly not at full price. I sometimes say that, as I did for Dead Space. The reality is I was NEVER going to buy that at full price. At best I was always going to wait for a deep sale, or Game Pass, as it wasn't worth $40-70 to me.

In Dead Space's case because, although it is a great game, I have played the original many times as recently as a few years ago.

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themightyant
Wed 18th Oct 2023

@Doublecell Three things

1. Lies of P and FFXVI have VERY different budgets and expectations. You can't compare the two.
2. Square are useless with sales predictions. Almost every game has failed to meet their expectations. With FFXVI sales they have publicly said sales were BOTH “extremely strong” (to IGN) and they did not meet Square Enix's high expectations due to "slow adoption" of PS5's (to investors).
3. More than anything Fanboys are fabricating drama that Final Fantasy XVI, or Starfield, or whatever exclusive, is failing as it suits their tired narrative.

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BaldB3lper78
Wed 18th Oct 2023

Far too many people miss the point of Game Pass. It helps those with lower budgets enjoy loads of great games but also serves as a way to test games before you decide to buy or buy and Lies of P is a great example of how it works well! It won’t always work well but when it’s a great game, it helps rather than hinders.

There is a blinkeredness to just how brilliant Game Pass is!

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