Elden Ring sales have grown to hit 23 million, publisher Bandai Namco has announced.
As part of the reveal of the hotly anticipated Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, due out this June, Bandai Namco issued a sales update for the base game, which, last we heard, had sold 20 million a year after launch.
This new 23 million sold figure is made up of shipped copies of the physical version as well as download sales, including those on Steam. So it provides a solid picture of Elden Ring’s breakout success. To put that into context, Hogwarts Legacy, 2023’s best-selling video game, has sold 24 million copies, generating well over $1 billion in sales.
Elden Ring is easily FromSoftware’s most successful game, with critical acclaim to go alongside its enormous sales success. It outsold each of the Dark Souls games, Demon's Souls, Sekiro, as well as Bloodborne (don’t mention a remake!).
Will FromSoftware release Elden Ring 2 or more DLC for Elden Ring following the release of the Shadow of the Erdtree? In an exclusive interview with IGN, chief developer Hidetaka Miyazaki said both are possible, although he stopped short of making an announcement.
Earlier this month, a Genshin Impact-inspired Elden Ring mobile game was reported to be in development, but progress was described as “slow”.
The base version of Elden Ring returned a 10/10 in IGN's review. "Elden Ring is a massive iteration on what FromSoftware began with the Souls series, bringing its relentlessly challenging combat to an incredible open world that gives us the freedom to choose our own path," we said.
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