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Forums - Sales Discussion - Dark Souls III tops 3 million shipments. The series tops 13 million

VXIII on 11 May 2016

Bandai Namco shares numbers for latest release.


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Total worldwide shipments for Dark Souls III have surpassed three million, and total worldwide shipments for the Dark Souls series have surpassed 13 million, Bandai Namco announced.  The number includes 500,000 shipped in Japan and Asia, 1.5 million shipped in North America, and one million shipped in Europe. Source
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3 million in a month. A big success, no doubt. Not much of a niche series anymore.


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Dadrik on 11 May 2016

It certainly was "niche", but finally People are starting to understand the game's not THAT "hard", it's just unforgiving and challenging.
And it's a stellar series



Just because you have an opinion doesn't mean you are necessarily right.

fatslob-:O on 11 May 2016

From Software is going to have fun making this an annualized series or at the very least biennial LOL ...



LurkerJ on 11 May 2016
fatslob-:O said:
From Software is going to have fun making this an annualized series or at the very least biennial LOL ...

No quality dips so far.

I see a dark souls 4 coming soon, and not because From Software wants to milk it, but Miyazaki seems to be that kind of guy; "We could've done this area and that boss better, let's make a new DS to rectify it"



VXIII on 11 May 2016
fatslob-:O said:
From Software is going to have fun making this an annualized series or at the very least biennial LOL ...

Well, I kinda hope so, biennial at least. Their track record is just excellent. From Software managed to keep high quality thorough out the "series". And I personally can't get enough of them. I believe they already confirmed that DSIII will be the last in the series, so thier next game will probably feature a different world and gameplay elements, kinda like Bloodborne. That if it is not Bloodborne II.



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VXIII on 11 May 2016
LurkerJ said:
fatslob-:O said:
From Software is going to have fun making this an annualized series or at the very least biennial LOL ...

No quality dips so far.

I see a dark souls 4 coming soon, and not because From Software wants to milk it, but Miyazaki seems to be that kind of guy; "We could've done this area and that boss better, let's make a new DS to rectify it"

They are making 3 major expansions for DSIII though. So I don't think DSIV is reqired for that. Also:

"I don't think it'd be the right choice to continue indefinitely creating Souls and Bloodborne games. I'm considering Dark Souls 3 to be the big closure on the series. That's not just limited to me, but From Software and myself together want to aggressively make new things in the future...Dark Souls 3 is an important marker in the evolution of From Software."

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/109742/20151123/dark-souls-3-could-be-the-last-game-in-the-series.htm



fatslob-:O on 11 May 2016

They may as well just have two teams working on the spiritual successors to Demons/Dark Souls and Bloodborne at this point ...



RenCutypoison on 11 May 2016
fatslob-:O said:
From Software is going to have fun making this an annualized series or at the very least biennial LOL ...

Didn't they have a second development team (helped by SCEAJ staff) for Bloodborne though ?

They could make bianneal releases with 4 years dev time per game, which is more than enough IMO.



fatslob-:O on 11 May 2016
RenCutypoison said:

Didn't they have a second development team (helped by SCEAJ staff) for Bloodborne though ?

They could make bianneal releases with 4 years dev time per game, which is more than enough IMO.

Bloodborne did have technical help from the SIE ATG team alright ... 



Wright on 11 May 2016

Great numbers. Certainly deserved them. Kinda makes me sad that DS3 will be the last one according to Miyazaki, but you never know what will happen in the future...

On a side note, I don't really like how DS3 will be milked with DLCs. Didn't like it in DS2, don't like it here either.

Never kinda understood why this series was considered niche in the first place, considering every entry cracked two million units at minimun. And I'm also counting Demon's Souls and Bloodborne here.