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FromSoftware's Elden Ring Game Sells 30 Million Copies
posted on by Anita Tai
The official X (formerly Twitter) account for Bandai Namco Entertainment's Elden Ring game announced on Monday that the game has sold 30 million copies.
FromSoftware launched Elden Ring for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC via Steam in February 2022. The game quickly surpassed 12 million units in sales worldwide in March 2022, and had overtaken Call of Duty: Vanguard as the best-selling game in the U.S. in the last 12 months ending in April 2022. The game's DLC expansion Shadow of the Erdtree launched last June for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam.
The game won Game of the Year at the DICE Awards, The Game Awards, and The Golden Joystick Awards. The game also won a Grand Award at the PlayStation Partner Awards in December 2022. Miyazaki won the Nebula Awards for Best Game Writing last year for his work on the game. The Shadow of the Erdtree DLC is nominated for Game of the Year, Best Game Direction, Best Art Direction, Best Score and Music, and Best RPG at The Game Awards 2024.
Bandai Namco will release Elden Ring: Nightreign, the new standalone Elden Ring game, for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC via Steam on May 30.
Source: Elden Ring's X/Twitter account
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