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Elden Ring has shipped more than 23M units worldwide, from Bandai Namco PR dated February 22, 2024. (Update: Now 30M as of April 2025)

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While checking any new information related to my other Elden Ring thread about the trademark ownership change: https://www.installbaseforum.com/fo...as-only-been-given-the-trademark-so-far.2430/

I found this PR released today for the Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree DLC from Bandai Namco: https://www.bandainamco.co.jp/files/HP_Bandai20Namco20Entertainment20and20FromSoftware_2.pdf

I am pasting some of the press release:
Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President & CEO: Nao Udagawa) and FromSoftware, Inc. (Headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; President: Hidetaka Miyazaki) announced that the co-developed action RPG "ELDEN RING" (Japan published under FromSoftware, Inc. / all other regions published under Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.), will be releasing its downloadable content (hereinafter “DLC”) “ELDEN RING SHADOW OF THE ERDTREE” on June 21, 2024 (Friday) worldwide. Pre-orders will begin today, Thursday, February 22, 2024.

What is "ELDEN RING"?
“ELDEN RING" is an action RPG set in an authentic dark fantasy world. The game allows players to explore vast fields and dungeons to discover the unknown and enjoy the sense of accomplishment that comes from overcoming obstacles and challenges. Combining the development capabilities of FromSoftware and the marketing power of Bandai Namco Entertainment's overseas network, this title has been played by fans around the world since its release on February 25, 2022, and has shipped more than 23 million units worldwide*. In addition, the game's gameplay and unique worldview have been highly acclaimed, and the game has won the four main game awards around the world, including "The Game Awards 2022," "Golden Joystick Awards 2022," "26th D.I.C.E. Awards," and "Game of The Year" at the "2023 Game Developers Choice Awards," and many other famous awards in the world.“ELDEN RING” will continue to be a deep and lasting quality content for fans worldwide.

“ELDEN RING" Content Summary
Product name ELDEN RING
Release Date February 25, 2022
Genre Action RPG
Platforms PlayStation®5/ PlayStation®4 /Xbox Series X|S / Xbox One (SMART DELIVERY supported) /Steam®.
Release Regions North America, LATAM, EU, Middle East and Africa, Oceania, Asia (including Japan)
Publisher Overseas: Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. Japan: FromSoftware, Inc.
LEGAL ©Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. / ©2024 FromSoftware, Inc.

*The total figure is derived from distribution figures of the package version and sales figures of the downloadable versions including those for the PC game platform “Steam.”
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The last milestone thread had 20.5M units shipped as of March 2023: https://www.installbaseforum.com/fo...-worldwide-edit3-20-5m-as-of-march-2023.1002/
 
22/02/25: Release
22/03/16: 12.0M
22/03/31: 13.4M
22/06/30: 16.6M
22/09/30: 17.5M
23/02/22: 20.0M
23/03/31: 20.5M
24/02/22: 23.0M
 
Those are some great numbers! love to see it.

Was it $60 on release?. It's been 40-50% plenty of times during the year which surely helped the sales spike last year.
 
Physical discounts also went steeper than digital (they usually do for massmarket games).

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fiendcode said:
Physical discounts also went steeper than digital (they usually do for massmarket games).

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PS5/Xbox is pretty in-line with digital, PS4 had some deeper sales though.
Is this standard for last gen SKUs?
 
Almost caught up to MHW as the best selling non Nintendo Japanese game ever.

Just a 1.1m gap.

Crazy impressive. Can't wait for the DLC.
 
Joins like ranks of Monster Hunter World and maybe soon Palworld.





Maybe even Final Fantasy XIV depending how that 27 million number breaks down.

 
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MysticGon said:
Joins like ranks of Monster Hunter World and maybe soon Palworld.





Maybe even Final Fantasy XIV depending how that 27 million number breaks down.

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Please include transcripts.

The FF14 total I believe includes those that did free trials and is just an account total in general. Actual people playing and buying it would be far less.
 
MysticGon said:
Joins like ranks of Monster Hunter World and maybe soon Palworld.





Maybe even Final Fantasy XIV depending how that 27 million number breaks down.

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FFXIV its in 30 millions now.

Hogwarts Legacy its probably 25 millions now too
 
30M this year is possible. Impressive considering the price. In a few years it's going to join The Witcher 3 and Skyrim in the 50M club. EDIT: From Software sales are not as good as before Elden Ring. I'm not so sure. Dark Souls 3:
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Massive, would never imagine that the series becoming that big when i was playing Dark Souls 1
 
So they shipped around 3.5m additional copies since the DLC released?

I expected more tbh but it's still an outrageous overall number.
 
What is impressive is average price is likely double or triple that of Witcher 3. Which sold millions after bargain bin prices.
 
tentacle-tropes said:
~37mil as reported by Bandai of March this year which excludes domestic sales by FromSoft.
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37.33m to be exact. With Japan I'd expect things comfortably over 40m today.

ER sales are just incredible though, a real BOTW moment. It'd going to clear 30m easily and might even pass 40m. Really curious how Nightreign does.
 
derby_440 said:
What is impressive is average price is likely double or triple that of Witcher 3. Which sold millions after bargain bin prices.
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Yeah, I’ve only seen it get a price cut a couple of times. Hoping for the inevitable Switch 2 port it gets a price cut before too long.
 
Mekanos said:
Yeah, I’ve only seen it get a price cut a couple of times. Hoping for the inevitable Switch 2 port it gets a price cut before too long.
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Going by history, all old games ported to Switch 2 will probably be sold at the same price as brand new games, going by what the likes of Persona 5, Dark souls and Skyrim did.
 
tentacle-tropes said:
~37mil as reported by Bandai of March this year which excludes domestic sales by FromSoft.
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Hmmm. I was thinking that Elden Ring might be able to outsell the entire Dark Souls series combined, but that might be an unrealistic expectation

Still, it's possible! We'll find out in another couple of years. A Switch 2 version would definitely help
 
Danny said:
Going by history, all old games ported to Switch 2 will probably be sold at the same price as brand new games, going by what the likes of Persona 5, Dark souls and Skyrim did.
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Yeah but those games also got healthy sales semi-frequently.
 
Not bad, I'd say!
This is an industry event, even more so for a Japanese developed game, isn't it?
and I bet the Switch 2 port will boost the sales even more
 
30 million units is such a massive success. Wow.

Wonder how it'll do it on Switch 2 - I'm sure there's gonna be a pretty good boost.
 
Wow... what a accomplishment. Truly a evergreen title. I am very curious to see what single player titles Fromsoft has coming & how they will perform.
 
Seeing " Isthereanydeal " , The lowest the game had gotten in terms of price is 49% off even including Official PC resellers like Humble or Greenmangaming , they hadn't even cross 50% discount after all those years
 
40M will come pretty quickly when factoring in the renewed interest due to Nightreign, the Switch 2 port and Duskbloods releasing next year.
 
I swear I thought it already hit 30 million, and then I see I already posted in this thread, lol

Coming up on Breath Of The Wild's numbers (34 million between Switch and Wii U SKUs)
 
People really doubted it could do these numbers before launch but I had faith, all the metrics were there

Doesn't even need to be said that the game deserves every sale, Fromsoftware the GOATs
 
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