Despite the huge expectation, Bandai Namco hoped that Elden Ringthe latest installment from FromSoftware still classified within the niche titles of the Souls genre, sold an approximate figure close to 4 million copies in the first five weeks since its launch. However, the impressive press releases or the collaboration of George RR Martin, together with the paradigm shift to an open world and greater accessibility for new players, have made this title rise already. among the best-selling games of the year.
And it is that Elden Ring has managed to overcome a whopping 12 million copies sold in just 18 daysfigures that the company itself has shared, and that come from the «Distribution figures for the package version and sales figures for the downloadable versions» as of March 14, 2022.
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Thus, we can see a more than impressive difference compared to its last installment, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, which sold 2 million copies in 10 days; and even better than Dark Souls 3the best-selling installment of the franchise, which reached 3 million copies after the first month of its release, and which it took four years to reach 10 million units sold worldwide.
Although beyond the genre itself, we can also compare this release with other of the most anticipated games recently released, such as Pokémon Legends Arceus, which kept about half of the copies sold, with 6.5 million copies during its first week; or the great fall of Babylon’s Fall, which in the absence of sharing its sales data, is already established as one of the worst Square Enix premieres.
So much is the success that Elden Ring seems to be having, that in fact, in this same statement in which they have shared these figures, both companies have also mentioned the possibility of expanding intellectual property «beyond the realm of games«. And it is that given the recent tendency to adapt game series to the big screen, and Martin’s experience in a series as successful as Game of Thrones, we could undoubtedly be facing a really interesting project.
