Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot Sales Top 8 Million Units - Sales

by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 July 2024 / 2,665 Views

Publisher Bandai Namco and developer CyberConnect2 have announced Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot has sold over eight million units worldwide.

Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot released for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC in January 2020, for the Nintendo Switch in September 2021, for the PlayStation 5 in January 2023, and for the Xbox Series X|S in February 2023.

Over 8 millions of you have shown your support for DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT.

Thank you for helping us reach this great milestone – we hope you look forward to what’s coming next! #DBZK pic.twitter.com/c8TnMYbW0o
— Dragon Ball Games (@dragonballgames) July 4, 2024

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 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.

4 Comments

00Xander00 (on 04 July 2024)

I really want to know how much the DBZ series has sold all together. Wiki says 66.5M & VGCharts say 69.99M. I think the true number is way more than that because the Wiki statistics haven't been updated in about 10 years lol. I would love to see statistics completely reassessed by Bandai-Namco or Shueisha themselves. I bet it's surpassed 100M by now.

trunkswd 00Xander00 (on 04 July 2024)

The majority of our "series" sales are just combining all of the available sales numbers together, unless a publisher/developer has revealed the actual total series sales.

Salnax 00Xander00 (on 04 July 2024)

To summarize:

We know from a Funimation presentation that Dragon Ball games had sold over 40 million worldwide by the end of 2014. This was during a lull in games for the series, we can can assume that the sales aren't TOO much higher than that. The Xenoverse games have a confirmed 15.5 million sales between the two iterations as of last year, FighterZ is another confirmed 10 million as of 2023, and Kakarot is 8 million. This is a combined total of 73.5 million, with only 3 retail games not represented: Extreme Butoden and Fusions for 3DS and Heroes World Mission on the Switch. However, even if these three games did fairly well, I doubt we'd reach more than maybe 80 million.

That being said, much of Dragon Ball's video game brand is invested outside of retail games. The arcade game Heroes made $460 million by 2016 and Dokkan Battle for mobile devices has broken $3 BILLION. So overall, the brand is doing very well. And Sparking Zero is likely going to sell 10 million copies.