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[Bartski]

“Elden Ring will finish as 2022’s best-selling premium game in the US market, marking only the 3rd time since 2009 that a Call of Duty franchise release does not lead the market,”

Elden Ring is now one of the best-selling games in US history | VGC

Elden Ring is now one of the top 10 best-selling premium games in the history of the US games market, according to NPD.

www.videogameschronicle.com

 

[Jennings]

Way to go, Tarnished. This is fantastic. A great return for a great game. See you again during GOTY season.

 

[Lethal01]

Where's the full list?

 

[Punished Miku]

You know you've officially made it when you start seeing clothing on par with the DBZ silk collar shirts all the nerds wore back in the day. Peak cultural impact.

Congrats From Software.

Countdown until we see Elden Ring on Paramount + begins now. I give it 2 years.

 

[Mister Wolf]

It deserves it. I'm just worn out by their "Souls" formula at this point. Sekiro was a nice change.

 

[TLZ]

 

[Bartski]

Where's the full list?

only got June

 

[Trogdor1123]

Sooooo, no sale soon then I guess…

 

[Bernd Lauert]

Well deserved. I assume seven of the top ten games are CoD?

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

I'm not a huge fan of souls games but, honestly? It's amazing to see an actual full game, released with no microtransations or bullshit outselling everything else in the industry.

It seems people still like to pay for full experiences, imagine that.

 

[Punished Miku]

Countdown until we see Elden Ring on Paramount + begins now. I give it 2 years.

Actually, it'll be on HBO.

"From the creator of Game of Thrones comes the next epic dark fantasy ...."

 

[Jaybe]

“Elden Ring will finish as 2022’s best-selling premium game in the US market, marking only the 3rd time since 2009 that a Call of Duty franchise release does not lead the market,”

Wow… not even waiting for COD MW2 (2022) to come out before calling it.

 

[Cert.in.Death]

\o/

 

[SlimySnake]

only got June

Man, HFW and GT7 really fell off. Surprised to see the Show has legs, but these two massive sequels dont.

 

[Punished Miku]

Kirby #8. Literally in my top 3 games of the year right now. Nice.

 

[lh032]

I stop playing once I reached Maliketh, abit burned out now.

but bloodborne 2 please, Sony make it happen.

 

[Punished Miku]

I stop playing once I reached Maliketh, abit burned out now.

but bloodborne 2 please, Sony make it happen.

The price tag for any FROM exclusive just went up by quite a bit.

Bluepoint, maybe.

 

[kittoo]

Good to see a single player game absolutely smashing it.

 

[Mr Moose]

Deserved.

Man, HFW and GT7 really fell off. Surprised to see the Show has legs, but these two massive sequels dont.

Bundles aren't counted by NPD.

 

[Saber]

Deserved.

Its kinda of a life lesson to some game devs.

 

[ANDS]

I'm not a huge fan of souls games but, honestly? It's amazing to see an actual full game, released with no microtransations or bullshit outselling everything else in the industry.

It seems people still like to pay for full experiences, imagine that.

That list posted is full of games with "no microtransactions." ER released a week after another huge AAA game with "no microtransactions." If people aren't seeing full game experiences when scouring the game release landscape, maybe they aren't searching right.

 

[digdug2]

That is absolutely fantastic and I'm glad to see that From Software is thriving. I am just hoping that this doesn't mean that they continue using their outdated engine that's completely piecemealed together. I loved Elden Ring throughout because I played on my XSX and LG C1 with VRR, the amount of frame pacing issues and frame drops is inexcusable on PC the current gen titles.

 

[Raven117]

Who would have thought a little ol game from a relatively obscure Japanese developer in 2009 would explode into what it is today.

 

[TheDuskwalker]

Not bad for "fucking idiots".

 

[Dynasty8]

"Hard games don't sell well"

 

[tmlDan]

"Hard games don't sell well"

good thing it isn't hard then....

 

[Mozzarella]

I wonder what will this mean for future Fromsoft Games?
Elden Ring was glorious, GOTY incoming.

 

[Dynasty8]

good thing it isn't hard then....

Not as hard as other From Soft games, but harder than 99% of the triple A games that come out today.

 

[Captain Toad]

If From had caved in and added Easy Mode to their games, I don't think it ever would have gotten here.

I know if Demon's Souls on PS3 had had an easy mode, I would have caved and played that. I also probably would never have "got it" and fallen in love with it and future From games.

 

[PaddyOCanager]

Yeah but only like 100 people finished the game so it still sucks.

 

[tmlDan]

Not as hard as other From Soft games, but harder than 99% of the triple A games that come out today.

In general, ya - but this it's probably why this was more successful, the accessibility for new players is much higher than older souls games.

I've watched plenty of streamers new to souls games who were just not great at games breeze through this one. Summons were a big part of that.

 

[Captain Toad]

Yeah but only like 100 people finished the game so it still sucks.

I know you're being sarcastic, but if you compare the completion percentages via trophies or achievements, it's quite high when compared to other much shorter and easier popular AAA games.

 

[Dynasty8]

In general, ya - but this it's probably why this was more successful, the accessibility for new players is much higher than older souls games.

I've watched plenty of streamers new to souls games who were just not great at games breeze through this one. Summons were a big part of that.

Yeah, I wasn't a fan of the "bell" NPC summons. It did make things much easier if you chose to go that route...especially the mimic which you get later on. I ended up using it for Malenia, but that's because she's a fucking bitch.

I think the primary appeal was the open world mixed with the Dark Souls formula. From Soft nailed that aspect better than many expected. Oh and the amazing reviews too. 96% on Metaritic is unheard of today.

 

[Matsuchezz]

The game is awesome I wish It had a defined path I have no time to wander around my gaming time is scarce.

 

[Rawker]

I'm still working through this game, just started lyndell and am level 112 with around the same hours played. I was prepared for a big game but this is a massive game with tons of stuff to do.

 

[Ghost of Caelid]

Best game ever...well deserved. Keep doing you from. Y'all the best in the industry right now.

 

[Knightime_X]

Out of all the sales I want to see the % of players who actually made it to end credits.
Probably like 4%, 10% being very generous.

 

[Fake]

Win

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Holy shit. Top 10 in the US already and it's only sold since Feb.

 

[TheDuskwalker]

Out of all the sales I want to see the % of players who actually made it to end credits.
Probably like 4%, 10% being very generous.

Steam Community :: ELDEN RING :: Achievements

steamcommunity.com

The Hoarah Loux, Warriors achievement is for beating the boss in front of the final boss door, and it's 37.5%, and the ending trophies have a combined total of over 56%. So at least 37% reached the end credits on steam, with a decent amount of that % replaying the game, or save stating, before the final boss. I have the Playstation version and looking at the trophies it's around the same. Even the optional hardest boss in the game has over 30% on both.

 

[Knightime_X]

Steam Community :: ELDEN RING :: Achievements

steamcommunity.com

The Hoarah Loux, Warriors achievement is for beating the boss in front of the final boss door, and it's 37.5%, and the ending trophies have a combined total of over 56%. So at least 37% reached the end credits on steam, with a decent amount of that % replaying the game or save stating before final boss. I have Playstation version and looking at trophies it's around the same. Even the optional hardest boss in the game has over 30% on both.

Steam is very understandable due to cheat mods like WeMod and cheat engine.
Not saying everyone used it but guaranteed many have.
30% is still fairly low though.

 

[Magic Carpet]

I blame the Astrologer for all my negative anything about this game. I should have just chosen a regular old warrior, I might have completed it by now.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

All it took was for the series to go OPEN WORLD.

 

[Dr_Salt]

I wonder what will this mean for future Fromsoft Games?
Elden Ring was glorious, GOTY incoming.

I hope it means they have money to make more experimental and weird games like they used to.

 

[Bragr]

It's shocking to see how big it got, amazing, well deserved.

Imagine if FromSoftware is gonna sell like this moving forward, billion earners.

 

[Kataploom]

Damn... Just finished Dark Souls as first Miyazaki Souls, was thinking about getting DS3 but I want some time before I jump to that... should I get ER instead?

 

[Dream-Knife]

Hopefully we get that RTX patch soon.

Hopefully it remains after COD comes out. No one should buy MW2022 as it's $70. If you don't buy it, the industry won't go that direction.

 

[F0rneus]

Damn... Just finished Dark Souls as first Miyazaki Souls, was thinking about getting DS3 but I want some time before I jump to that... should I get ER instead?

Hmmm. Hard to say. Dark Souls 3 is amazing, and a brilliant finale to the Souls series. Elden Ring is something that will feel familiar to you, but yet is very different. And it's THE game right now. So it might be cool to experience it while it still has a massive userbase (not that DS3 doesn't. It does).

 

[Kokoloko85]

Man, HFW and GT7 really fell off. Surprised to see the Show has legs, but these two massive sequels dont.

There both in the top 10 of the year overall and come back in the charts time to time

 

[SteelCurtain 59]

Well I guess that means the end of the perfectly crafted soulsborne games and instead get bland repetitive open world games. At least we'll always have dark souls 1 and 3