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Sony Santa Monica introduced that its November tentpole sport, God of Conflict Ragnarok, has handed one other gross sales milestone — over 11 million copies bought within the first three months post-launch. That greater than doubles its gross sales that it achieved within the first week after launch on November 9, 2022.
Ragnarok was GamesBeat’s bronze medalist in our record of Video games of 2022, additionally getting a 4.5/5 score in our overview. Sony introduced final 12 months, just a few weeks after Ragnarok launched, that it was fastest-selling first-party launch in PlayStation historical past, hitting 5.1 million copies bought within the first week of its launch.
Ragnarok’s predecessor, God of Conflict (2018), bought 3.1 million copies in its first three days. The latter has bought 23 million copies as of the final report. The franchise has traded the fastest-selling title with the likes of The Final of Us and Spider-Man within the intervening years.
Provided that Sony just lately introduced larger availability for the PlayStation 5, gross sales for one in all its flagship titles ought to solely go up even additional. The writer additionally has a behavior of releasing its video games on PC at a later date for a secondary increase in gross sales (which it did for each God of Conflict, Horizon Zero Daybreak and Marvel’s Spider-Man). It’s doubtless that God of Conflict Ragnarok will observe swimsuit.
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