Elden Ring is officially FromSoftware's most popular game — it outsold the developer's entire Dark Souls series by 2 million copies
Elden Ring supremacy
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“Fun fact: the entire Dark Souls series had sold 27 million units combined prior to Elden Ring’s release,” video game market researcher Daniel Ahmadwrote on Twitter. “Now, Elden Ring alone has surpassed that total.”
In apress release, FromSoftware reveals that Elden Ring has sold over 28.6 million copies since coming out in 2022. But if that isn’t enough to convince you of Elden Ring’s astronomical popularity, FromSoftware also discloses that the dark fantasy game’s Shadow of the Erdtree expansion sold more than five million copies in only its first three days on the market this summer.
So, yeah, Elden Ring is kind of a big deal. Wesaw that coming. To put its sales in perspective, Dark Souls is a decades-old franchise with three main games and six DLCs, and it only reached its current number of 37 million …