Elden Ring writer Bandai Namco has shared the latest gross sales figures of its fashionable action-RPG, which quantity to over 23 million copies bought over two years. FromSoftware’s award-winning recreation is ready to obtain its first DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree on Jun. 21.
Bandai Namco didn’t simply drop a trailer for one of many most-hyped DLCs in gaming historical past. No, in addition they wished to make an announcement on simply how profitable Elden Ring is. In response to their report, the sport has shipped over 23 million models worldwide—three million greater than what we knew from their final gross sales replace. Bandai Namco spoke of the gross sales, the DLC, and extra of their newest press launch concerning Shadow of the Erdtree.
These gross sales figures have been probably included to bolster the hype surrounding Elden Ring and its DLC, as Bandai Namco has beforehand issued related statements when ER hype was at its peak in 2022. Irrespective of the explanation, I definitely love wanting on the successes FromSoftware retains reaching, and with gross sales figures like these, it’s anybody’s guess at what they’ll do down the road. The extra funding can solely improve their scope and functionality, a few of which we’ve seen in Armored Core 6, which ended up successful the Finest Motion Recreation Award on the 2023 Recreation Awards.
The Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree trailer has obtained seven million views on Bandai Namco’s YouTube channel in a single day, whereas on the official Elden Ring account on X, it gathered 10 million viewers. Suffice it to say, the hype could be very a lot actual, and it’s sure to continue to grow as we draw nearer and nearer to the top of our two-and-a-half-year anticipate FromSoftware’s newest growth to The Lands Between.