Meta usually doesn’t element participant numbers, and even gross sales figures for its varied Quest headsets, which suggests we normally need to get artistic. Now, the block-slashing rhythm sport Beat Saber—the corporate’s hottest sport—seems to have offered almost 10 million models on Quest alone.
Beat Saber’s ‘Pure’ achievement requires the participant to clear any stage with none modifiers, which principally anybody can do exactly by booting up the sport for the primary time and taking part in any of the tremendous simple newbie ranges.
It’s the most effective watermark we have now to see who purchased the sport and truly performed it for even a couple of minutes. As highlighted by X person James Kelley, that achievement now accounts for 9.7 million customers.
Right here’s some back-of-the-napkin math to dig a bit of deeper: Beat Saber was bundled for a short while with new Quest 2 purchases for a five-month interval in 2022, which can account for slice of these 9.7 million customers on Quest.
Lets assume that five-month interval doesn’t account for a 7.35% hole in gross sales out of the 68 complete months of its existence on Quest although, however round triple that simply to be on the conservative facet.
Assuming that 20% of gamers obtained the sport for “free” on Quest, this leaves 7.76 million paid gamers, which suggests Beat Saber generated $233 million in income on Quest from the bottom sport alone, which is priced at $30 (and by no means goes on sale). Roughly talking, this equates to ~$3.42 million income per month when calculated over its lifetime on Quest.
Notably, that doesn’t have in mind the sport’s huge catalogue of paid DLC music packs, that are usually priced at round $15, or $2 per music, or its income generated on different platforms, which incorporates PSVR/PSVR 2, SteamVR headsets, or Meta PC.
The sport’s endurance can largely be attributed to 2 issues: it’s an superior sport for VR newcomers, and has additionally benefitted from a continuing movement of recognizable bands included in DLC because it was launched. Simply final month, Beat Saber launched its largest (and costliest) music pack but, the Metallica Music Pack, priced at $20, following a slew of releases final yr which included DLC that includes Britney Spears, Daft Punk, in addition to hip hop legends 2Pac, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Dr Dre and extra.
