Tango Gameworks took a risk going out Hi-Fi Rush the same day as his announcement, but the nerve has obviously paid off. A real surprise from the latest Xbox & Bethesda broadcast, the beat ’em up/rhythm game has won over a large part of the public thanks to word of mouth which has worked, to the point of making it one of the most profitable games of recent days on Steam, even though it is available on the Xbox Game Pass.
Encouraging first figures
We have had proof of this many times, but the release of a game on the Xbox Game Pass does not mean that sales of the title will necessarily collapse or not live up to expectations. Hi-Fi Rush demonstrates this in turn with very encouraging first results on Steam, since the game manages to integrate the top 10 most profitable games of the moment on the platform being in the ninth position, at the time of writing these lines. As a reminder, this ranking is established according to the profit reported by each game, and not according to the number of copies sold.
A great performance, especially in a week full of big outings between Dead Space Remake and Forspoken. The first climbs to fifth place, while Forspoken is lagging behind, the fault of several factors including a base price that is too high for the platform and a marketing campaign that has mainly focused on the PS5 version. It should also be noted that pre-orders of Hogwarts Legacy continue to pile up, pointing to a spectacular start for the game on the charts to come.
To go back to Hi-Fi Rush, the game also manages to climb into the most popular games of the moment on the Xbox Game Pass, alongside Monster Hunter Rise, also freshly landed in the service. In sum, Tango Gameworks can probably congratulate itself on the performance of its latest game, even if it is still too early to know if the project is profitable or not.