Dark Souls III Sells an Estimated 1.13M Units First Week - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 28 April 2016 / 42,431 Views
The action role-playing game - Dark Souls III - sold 1,129,700 units first week at retail, according to our estimates. First week sales for outside of Japan can be viewed on the VGChartz Global Weekly Chart* for the week ending April 16th and Japan sales can be viewed on the VGChartz Japan Weekly Chart for the week ending March 27th.
Breaking down the sales by platform, the game sold best on the PlayStation 4 with 924,664 units sold (82%), compared to 181,572 units sold on the Xbox One (16%). It also sold 23,464 units on Windows PC (2%).
Breaking down the sales by region, the game sold best in the US with 408,932 units sold (36%), compared to 331,211 units sold in Europe (29%). The game also sold 215,949 units first week in Japan (19%). Looking more closely at Europe, the game sold an estimated 66,498 units in the UK, 67,205 units in Germany, and 48,420 units in France.
Dark Souls III released in Japan on March 24th and on April 12th in North America and Europe.
*Sales for outside of Japan were estimated by subtracting sales in Japan for the week from the Global total.
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A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Not surprised. the fanbase is on ps4 after all.
Looks like MS exclusive marketing really paid for for them.
82% of the sales on the PS4.... wow... that is nuts.
Eh... not really.
*Physical sales
That is a phenomenal first week! Hope this sells like crazy!
Excellent. It also has ~750k sales on Steam, so it is doing really well thus far
where did you see it sold that much on Steam? if that number is accurate then STEAM sales are getting insanely high, especially considering Dark Souls have a terrible PC reputation, as in the past the games have not been well appropriated for keyboard controls
http://steamspy.com/app/374320
and since when did Dark Souls have a terrible PC reputation? they're all massively popular. DS1 sold more than 2.5 million units; DS2 (and SOTFS) sold nearly 2 million combined; DS3 is at 750k. and most people use a controller (you do know that most pc games can be played with a 360/ps4/wii U pro controller, right?)
@mountaindewslave Steamspy is more accurate then pretty much any source as it counts how many people own the game on their Steam profile. Too bad some people have their profiles private, so that means the sales on Steam could easily be over 1 million.
Incredible.
I wonder which sales will go on the longest, like 10 years time longest if not more.
Awesome numbers, i hope we will get a souls game every year. Better than another cod and battlefield every year
