The most hyped game of the year is also proving to be one of the most successful. Elden Ring, which we’re going to assume most of you have heard of, has had another sales update thanks to Bandai Namco’s financial reports for the end of the 2021 fiscal year. As of March 31, it had sold 13.4 million units, as reported by industry big brain newsbot Nibellion on Twitter.
This represents around 1.4 million sales in a two week period since the 12 million reported after the first two weeks. This was already a ludicrous record, as it took multiple years for previous games in the Souls/Sekiro/Bloodborne triumvirate to reach those sorts of milestones. At a rate of a million every couple of weeks, it’s very likely Elden Ring has passed the 15 million milestone in the time since.
This was part of a very successful presentation from Bandai Namco for their last year of operation. The presentation is fully in Japanese with no English version I can locate, but you can take a look at the pure numbers side of things, which paint a line-goes-up picture (the good kind). This includes significant continued investment in “game content R&D” – i.e. development – which Bamco sees continuing to grow next year.
The company doesn’t think success on this scale will continue through all of next year, but is predicting another very good year in 2023. Given Bamco’s predictions for Elden Ring were decidedly conservative, it could be another massive year for them.
Written by Ben Barrett on behalf of GLHF.