Elden Ring Ships An Insane 16.6 Million Units In Less Than Six Months

One of essentially the most anticipated, and broadly profitable titles of 2022 has achieved one more milestone. Elden Ring’s wild recognition has seemingly taken over the gaming business, and that’s placing it mildly. During Bandai Namco’s financial report, which was initially proven by Japanese publication Gamebiz, the writer revealed that Elden Ring has now shipped greater than 16.6 million items world vast. Since the sport solely launched this previous February, which means the title was capable of obtain this feat in underneath six months.

Just to make clear for the reason that wording appears to be complicated: ELDEN RING’s complete gross sales are 16.6 million *as* of June 2022

— Nibel (@Nibellion) August 18, 2022

With these mammoth numbers, that makes Elden Ring essentially the most profitable particular person title in From Software’s historical past. We say particular person as a result of as an entire, the whole Dark Souls franchise has offered a mixed 27 million copies in its lifetime. This additionally utterly dwarfs their different singular title, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, which shipped roughly 5 million items by the Summer of 2020. This can also be a large soar in gross sales for the reason that earlier numbers in March the place they offered greater than 12 million items, and that was underneath a month of the title being out there.

Quite frankly, it’s not all that shocking to see these numbers for Elden Ring as the sport already had an traditionally excessive anticipation wait that boiled over for the higher a part of three plus years. It additionally helped that the devoted fanbase of the SoulsBorne titles had been additionally frothing on the mouth to get their palms on this entry. Bandai Namco and From Software’s persistence and dedication has paid off enormous right here, and it’s greater than possible that these numbers are going to extend exponentially earlier than the years is completed.

Elden Ring is on the market now for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/Series S, and PC.