
Horizon: Zero Dawn Sells an Estimated 1.83 Million Units First Week at Retail - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 08 April 2017 / 55,060 ViewsThe open world action RPG from Sony Interactive Entertainment and Guerrilla Games - Horizon: Zero Dawn - sold 1,829,337 units first week at retail on the PlayStation 4, according to our estimates. First week sales can be viewed on the VGChartz Global Weekly Chart for the week ending March 4.
Breaking down the sales by region, the game sold best in Europe with 916,642 units sold (50%), compared to 477,505 units sold in the US (26%) and 120,566 units in Japan. Looking more closely at Europe, the game sold an estimated 166,952 units in the UK, 164,964 units in Germany, and 136,356 units in France.
Horizon: Zero Dawn released for the PlayStation 4 in North America on February 28, in Europe on March 1 and in Japan om March 2.
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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Well deserved! Congrats to the devs for an amazing game
What a beast. Huge legs on the Horizon it seems too
I'm betting minimum 600k second week.
Congrats to Horizon Zero Dawn! Can't wait to play it after I finish playing Killzone Shadowfall. After that, I'll be playing Persona 5.
Will not be surprised if it reaches 10 million in the long run
feelsgoodman
Wow, europe has bought this game strongly. This is strange, usually the US is the stronger region, in this case europe not only beats it but doubles the american number. Impressive.
Actually for most PS4 games, Europe is ahead of the US in sales. Plus, Zelda probably had a bigger impact on US sales than EU.
Those are some great numbers!
Fantastic if true. Means 2 million including digital most likely.
2.6 total already confirmed by sony and devs!!! It's a BEAST!!!!
Such a lovely game. I hope tons of people get the pleasure of playing it.
Well deserved!
Such an amazing game. For me it is the best game on the PS4 this generation thus far.
Better than Bloodborne?
@KLAMarine
In many ways yeah i can see it being better than Bloodborne, (and i say this as someone who beated Bloodborne 9 times and BB is my current "Best game for PS4 so far" though i can see that changing once i beat Horizon).
They are indeed hard to compare, Horizon is a game i dont see myself playing more than 2 times, but thats not because it isnt as fun as BB but rather because i dont need to start another Playthrough to fight the coolest machines/enemies in the game, i can just explore the world and find more Thunderjaws / Stormbirds etc.and have amazing fights with them, the same can not be said about BB where if i wanna fight Lady Maria, Gascoigne or Gherman i need to start a new playthrough and play all the way through just to fight them again.
BB is a linear game, with memorable boss fights, a story and lore left for interpretation, completely focused on the atmosphere and combat/gameplay, while Horizon is a huge open world game thats incredibly interesting and FUN to explore, with tons of (great) side content, great atmosphere too and all of this without compromising its gameplay, in fact its gameplay is just as great and enjoyable as BB, (which i never expected but yeah... its TRUE).
In the end by design they are very different games and it is hard to compare them, but i can indeed say that (even though i havent beaten Horizon) i can see already that its on BB level of quality and fun.
And if you are someone who just wants great gameplay with an awesome atmosphere (which is what BB offers), then Horizon gives you those same things plus much more and thats why i can see it being better, but since they are so different by design, the one you like the most will come down to personal preference.
In the end i think both are gonna be my favorite PS4 games because they are so diffferent its gonna be hard for me to pick one above the other.
Thanks estebxx! Very informative posts!
You're welcome, its always enjoyable to write about games that i like.
Amazing game. My GOTY so far.
Cant wait to see what the next Killzone will look like with an open world feel.
I would get this if i had a PS4, but i'm an xbot so i'm busy playing scalebound...
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Ohhh...
Rebirth of Guerrilla Games.
After Persona 5 and Yakuza Zero the best game this year for me :)
US don't like RPG's then.
I would get this if i had a PS4, but i'm an xbot so i'm busy playing scalebound...
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Ohhh...
What an absolute beast. It paid not to take the safe option and make another killzone!
You have to admit it would be fantastic to see Nintendo fans eat all that crow if Horizon does outsell BOTW lifetime. They would probably cry about installbase but if Horizon manages to sell 10 million units sold it would be quite the achievement and a tall order for Zelda which typically sells around 8 million units.
Whoa. It really did beat BotW's combined sales numbers. Crazy.
It's nice to see a new IP make it every once in a while.
Actually the Switch and Wii U verison were completely sold out everywhere the first week, while Horizon had no stock problems. Horizon had 2 more days to sell and a far bigger user base. We will see in the long run which game sells better ;-)
Siebensus4: mmmmmnnnooo they weren't...
Hell yeahhh Horizon rocks!!!! Also, the sales of a console have nothing to do with it. for either game, no matter what, the fans will or will not be getting it no matter what. Whether the PS4 had 56 million or 15 million, the sales would not be affected much. On a 56 million selling console, Uncharted 4 only has 8 million sold. GTAV has 15 million. Horizon is doing well and beyond and showing everyone what kind of fan power a new IP can provide.
Let's face it...no Zelda has ever surpassed 10 million sold. Not even 9 million. The Last of Us has sold over 10. No matter what game it is, it's all about the fans in the end....they decide and will always be there if the game is truly excellent and delivers. :)
Why is this disliked? The analysis does make sense.
If it is over-tracked, by how much is probably mostly dependent on digital. If digital is 20% and it has a second week drop of 75% (fairly normal), VGC's first week would put it at 2.74 million after 2 weeks. That's within their margin of error, but i guess we'll have to wait and see.
the numbers are strange, VGChartz estimate is probably off a bit as that would be a gigantic second week drop considering we have Sony's confirmed two week numbers including digital
Remember that it sold 2.6 million in just under 2 weeks. It was 13 days of NA sales, and 12 days of Asian and European sales.
So the 2 week total is likely to be closer to 2.7-2.75 million I would imagine.