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Report: PS5 Selling Out in China Due to High Demand for Black Myth: Wukong

Report: PS5 Selling Out in China Due to High Demand for Black Myth: Wukong - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 23 August 2024 / 4,683 Views

Developer Game Science released the action RPG, Black Myth: Wukong, this week and the game is already the second highest game of all-time on Steam in terms of peak concurrent players.

It is now being reported Black Myth: Wukong has caused a huge increase in popularity for the PlayStation 5 to the point stock is selling out, according to consultant Daniel Camilo.

"At Huaqiangbei in Shenzhen (world's largest electronic market), it is now clear that sales are extraordinarily high, driven by Wukong," said Camilo.

Black Myth: Wukong is now available for PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store. The Xbox Series X|S will launch at a later date.


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.


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16 Comments
kazuyamishima (on 23 August 2024)

If the export theory is true, there might be an increase in Famitsu numbers in the upcoming weeks

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Geralt99 (on 23 August 2024)

Wokong giving PS5 a much needed boost in August.

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jvmkdg Geralt99 (on 23 August 2024)

probably something close to 61.5 million units by the end of August. And soon after there is star wars outlaws and astrobot and FIFA. August and September will be good months for the PS5

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SecondWar jvmkdg (on 23 August 2024)

The pendant in me wants to point out there is no Fifa game set to release in the next few months ;)

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Vengeance1138 jvmkdg (on 23 August 2024)

Star Wars Outlaws will be a sales disaster, nobody is buying that one. Catastrophic flop for Ubi.

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KratosLives Vengeance1138 (on 24 August 2024)

That's great. That's what theyd deserve for not giving us beyone good evil 2.

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VAMatt (on 24 August 2024)

This doesn't really tell us anything though, because we don't know what the stock situation was in China to start with. Like if a given store has 500 PlayStations in stock and they all sell out, that's huge. But if a store has five PlayStations in stock and they sell out, that's much less of a big deal.

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HopeMillsHorror VAMatt (on 26 August 2024)

Exactly... but fanboys will use this as a point of celebration either way lol

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BraLoD (on 23 August 2024)

But isn't China VERY into PC gaming? Why not play it on PC? Is it really getting non-gamers to buy a $500 just for it? If so, wow.

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VAMatt BraLoD (on 24 August 2024)

Wasn't China believed to be a big reason that the steam numbers were so big?

As for PlayStation 5, we need to know the actual unit numbers. Selling out doesn't mean anything if we don't know how many units were in stock.

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KratosLives BraLoD (on 27 August 2024)

Why spend a grand or more for a pc to have the game run great?

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G2ThaUNiT (on 23 August 2024)

I wonder if we'll be able to get official PS5 sales figures in China since it's such a new official market for Sony. This should lead to a good sized console market share in the region by the time something like Phantom Blade Zero releases!

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SanAndreasX (on 23 August 2024)

Interesting that the WeChat post is using Goku, the Japanese name for Sun Wukong.

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Hiku SanAndreasX (on 23 August 2024)

The auto translation probably thinks its Goku since that's the most commonly used context for the name.

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BFR (on 24 August 2024)

Uh oh, look out China. Wouldn't surprise me if Xi bans the PS5 in the near future. He doesn't want you youngsters playing video games and lying flat. He wants you to be slave workers for the state.

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Esparadrapo BFR (on 24 August 2024)

Politics should be left at the entrance, sir. This is a videogame website.

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