In just six months of life, Elden Ring managed to not only sell almost 17 million copies, but also became FromSoftware’s most successful game. Read more here!
If we talk about one of the most important games of 2022, surely Elden Ring Be one of the first that comes to mind. Every fan of video games has at least heard the name of the title of FromSoftware, and the truth is that there are reasons that support this popularity. Without going further, publisher Bandai Namco shared some interesting numbers about Elden Ring.
bandai namco revealed the details of its results for the first financial quarter of 2023, which comprises between April and June of this year. Here we could see the success of Elden Ring, a game that achieved an incredible figure of 16.6 million units sold worldwidein just six months.
If we compare it with the result of other games of FromSoftware, they are even more forceful. As an example, the entire Dark Souls saga sold a total of 27 million copies. For its part, Sekiro managed to sell 5 million units until 2020.
At the time of release of Elden Ring, on February 25, 2022, we knew it was a masterpiece, but it exceeded expectations. The truth is FromSoftware He perfected his style not only in the Soulsbornebut also in the open world games in general. If that were not enough, every detail of the map is taken care of to its maximum extent, and that does not leave aside the graphic and artistic sections, which are also incredible. For this and many other things, Elden Ring obtained this success, although if you want a deeper analysis, here we leave you our review.
On the other hand, in the report bandai namco we also see that achieved 40.5 billion yen in video game sales. This represents a year-over-year increase of almost 55%11,444,000 units sold in the last three months.