As if I didn’t already have a massive backlog of cool stuff to play on Game Pass, Microsoft have revealed that Control arrives on Xbox Game Pass for PC on Thursday. Remedy’s spooky interdimensional shooter is already out on Steam, the Epic Games Store and even Xbox Game Pass for console, so it was just a matter of time really. I’m excited to jump back into it.
Control, everybody's favourite Alan Wake-meets-the SCP Foundation action-adventure game, has hit an important milestone. It has now sold more than two million copies, following a November that proved to be its best month of sales to date.
Thomas Pruha, developer Remedy's communications director, shared the news on Twitter after an executive announced the news to the Remedy team during a streamed company meeting. "My boss just revealed in the @remedygames CMD stream that the past November was Control's best selling month (15 months after launch)", Puha wrote. "In total, Control has sold over 2 million copies to date."
It's rare for a game to see its best-selling month more than a year after its initial launch, but there are a couple of contributing factors that help make Control's best month ever more understandable. First off, Control arrived on Steam in August after a year of Epic exclusivity on PC, along with the new Ultimate Edition that includes all the game's DLC. Second, Nvidia's launch of its new 30-series line of GPUs likely led new players to seek out a good showcase for ray-traced lighting effects - and Control is perfect for that.
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