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Bandai Namco (They publish Dark Souls) announces Elden Ring shipped 13.4M units as of March 31st, 2022

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Bandai Namco announced their earnings for the fourth quarter fiscal year ending March 2022 on May 11th 2022.

In the presentation slides they posted, this was found:
Hartmann said:
Bandai Namco announced that 13.4 milllion units of Elden Ring have been shipped.
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In the slide they're referring to how they forecasted 4M units for Elden Ring and it was obviously exceeded by more than 3 times that amount for the fiscal year.

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The last milestone of 12M units shipped with 1M units shipped in Japan alone was as of March 14th 2022, source: https://www.installbaseforum.com/fo...4m-units-as-of-march-31st-2022.772/post-71442
 
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And the game hasn't left the top spots of Steam weekly best sellers.

PS Blog didn't post April top sellers for the PS Store yet but safe to assume it should be pretty high there, and it's also one of the most played games on Xbox.

Insane success all around.
 
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NediarPT88 said:
And the game hasn't left the top spots of Steam weekly best sellers.

PS Blog didn't post April top sellers for the PS Store yet but safe to assume it should be pretty high there, and it's also one of the most played games on Xbox.

Insane success all around.
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It’s still the top seller on Xbox,


So it kept on selling well after March.. wouldn’t shock me if it’s over 15M now.
 
MysticGon said:
Their asses only expected to ship 4 million copies of a spiritual successor to a game that sold 10 million? 🤡
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Time periods might confuse things but yeah, it looks like a low balled target. 4m in how long at what price vs 10m in how long at what price?
 
MysticGon said:
Their asses only expected to ship 4 million copies of a spiritual successor to a game that sold 10 million? 🤡
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Just tells you what crazy profit margin they are already experiencing shorty after launch. Feels like these expectations were less based on market realities but just what they needed/hoped to sell based on the game budget.
 
MysticGon said:
Their asses only expected to ship 4 million copies of a spiritual successor to a game that sold 10 million? 🤡
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Yes? 40% at full price of your best LTD (with plenty of discounts) in a month is not a bad expectation.

Recent and similar examples, how many % of units do you think Horizon or GT have sold compared their predecesors?
 
MysticGon said:
Their asses only expected to ship 4 million copies of a spiritual successor of a game that sold 10 million? 🤡
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Sucessor or a game that sold 10 million lifetime, after going super cheap on sales and again.

The predecessor didn’t sell 4 million in 5 weeks~. Which is what this period covers. It took 2 months until Souls 3 reached 3M..
 
So 1.4m (ish, I guess the 12m was rounded) in 17 days following the first milestone. Excellent. More than tripled their expectations for the fiscal year, absolutely astounding really.

I expect it will be around 20m after the holidays at the end of the year.
 
Is there a general thread for Bandai Namco's results planned? I'd be interested in how BN fared without Elden Ring in the equation.
 
How long does it usually take From to announce and release the first DLC on one of their games?
 
Lelouch0612 said:
It is not there yet but it is the biggest launch by far and it show outsell MHW sooner than later.
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MHW didnt release on PC day 1 making the launch a lot weaker, it still should easily outsell MHW but comparing launch vs launch doesnt seem fair when MHW PC launch was like a second launch sales wise.
 
If I'm reading that report correct, Elden Ring may have accounted for 20-30% of NB's entire group's profit for the year (300-400/1254). I'm really surprised how thin NB's margin is to be honest.
 



EU split in february: PC 44% / PS 40% / XB 16%

Seems like PC/PS are kinda even in the west.

That said, more than 100k reviews on steam are in chinese so in that market PC should easily have a considerable advantage.
 
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