Elden Ring Has Sold Over 20 Million Copies, Bandai Namco Confirms

Elden Ring has bought over 20 million copies worldwide, writer Bandai Namco confirmed. A crucial darling and Game of the Year winner at The Game Awards 2022, Elden Ring reached the milestone only a few days shy of its one-year anniversary — February 25. The complete combines the cargo and gross sales figures for each bodily and digital copies bought. It’s value noting that the sport reached that quantity with none post-launch story DLC or growth. For comparability, it took Dark Souls 3 — FromSoftware program’s much-beloved 2016 title — 4 years to promote 10 million copies. Elden Ring doubled that feat in only one 12 months.

“The companies would like to thank everyone who has played this game from the bottom of their hearts, and will continue to develop various ways for the fans to enjoy the world of ELDEN RING in the future,” Bandai Namco stated in a ready assertion. Elden Ring’s achievement is solely on one other stage right here — approaching near the final reported gross sales figures of God of War (2018), which has bought 23 million items as of November 2022. FromSoftware program’s Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, which was additionally a multi-platform launch, managed to promote over 5 million copies by July 2020. Meanwhile, the much-revered Bloodborne, which was restricted to the PS4, bought simply over 2 million copies by the top of 2015.

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If something, Elden Ring’s feat proves how single-player video games can nonetheless emerge profitable in present online game local weather that rewards dwell service fashions with battle passes and in-game purchases. The recreation additionally highlighted underwhelming open-world design selections prevalent throughout the trade and pioneered by Ubisoft, dictated by infinite map icons, waypoints, an goal guidelines, and an excessive amount of handholding — primarily, distracting from the wonders of exploration.

The final introduced gross sales particulars for Elden Ring had been in August when it crossed 16 million in gross sales, with these numbers doubtless receiving a lift in the course of the Christmas season, because of the excitement it garnered at The Game Awards.

As the one-year anniversary nears, followers have been questioning whether or not FromSoftware has some Elden Ring DLC within the works. After all, throughout his acceptance speech at The Game Awards, director Hidetaka Miyazaki promised that extra content material was on its manner. “As for Elden Ring, we have several more things we want to do,” he stated, on the time. As regular, information miners similar to (*20*)Sekiro Dubi have been onerous at work, uncovering reduce content material within the recreation that might doubtlessly emerge as DLC content material. One of them was revealed because the Colosseum DLC, whereby gamers may partake in PvP matches in opposition to others on-line. The arenas at all times existed in the principle recreation, however their doorways had been inaccessible throughout gameplay till the replace rolled out.

Last 12 months, FromSoftware program additionally confirmed improvement on Armored Core VI Fires of Rubicon, the place mecha robots duke it out on a dystopian post-apocalyptic world to say management of a mysterious vitality supply. Directed by Masaru Yamamura, designer on 2019’s Sekiro, FromSoftware program’s subsequent recreation will let gamers assemble their very own robots and pilot them in fast-paced missions that take a look at their mettle.

Elden Ring is on the market on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series S/X.