Game News Elden Ring: still gargantuan sales, the game achieves a feat two months after its release
Elden Ring is definitely the king of the last twelve months. At least in the United States, where it leads the most distributed games over this period. It’s Call of Duty Vanguard that he steals the crown.
Summary
- Elden Ring on the Throne
- The failure of Call of Duty Vanguard
Elden Ring on the Throne
Elden Ring is definitely the box of the year, or rather of the last twelve months: in the United States, it is the best-selling game in 2022, but also the one that has been the best-selling over the last twelve months. It is on Twitter that Mat Piscatella, employee at NPD Group (service provider specializing in market research), shared these results:
United States NPD Premium Games – Top 10 Sales of the Last Twelve Months April 2022 Included.
In barely two and a half months, Elden Ring has therefore established itself in American cottages and consolidates its success: three weeks after the launch of their title, Bandai Namco and From Software then indicated that they had distributed twelve million units worldwide.
The failure of Call of Duty Vanguard
Either way, it’s a smash hit for Elden Ring. who manages to place first even though it was only released on February 25, i.e. in the last two months of these figures. He also knew how to seize an opportunity: the commercial “failure” of Call of Duty: Vanguard, ranked second. Activision Blizzard, the publisher, had already mentioned disappointing results for the last episode of the saga. In his financial results published at the beginning of May, he even stated that “The game’s WWII setting didn’t resonate with some of our community and we didn’t bring as much innovation to the game as we would have liked.“.
For the rest of the ranking, we find the American football game Madden NFL 22 (which is a hit in the United States), the remake of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl or Battlefield 2042 despite the many frustrations of players about it. Moreover, it is interesting to note that LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Series (released on April 05) is the second most distributed game of the year in the United States, just ahead of Pokémon Legends Arceus (released on January 28) and Horizon: Forbidden West (released February 18).
