Koei Tecmo Reveals Series Sales Numbers - Dynasty Warriors, Dead or Alive, More - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 27 April 2026 / 2,863 Views
Koei Tecmo has revealed the sales figures for a number of its most popular series.
The Dynasty Warriors series comes out on top with over 24 million units sold across all the entries. Next up is the Nobunaga's Ambition and Dead or Alive series with over 11 million units sold each.
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms series has sold over 9.5 million units, the Samurai Warriors series has sold over 8.5 million units, and the Nioh series has sold over 10 million units.
The Atelier series has sold over eight million units and the Ninja Gaiden series has sold over 7.5 million units. Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty has had over five million users.
- Dynasty Warriors - 24 million
- Nobunaga's Ambition - 11 million
- Dead or Alive - 11 million
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms - 9.5 million
- Samurai Warriors - 8.5 million
- Nioh - 10 million
- Atelier - 8 million
- "Secret" series (Atelier Ryza) Over 2.5 million
- Ninja Gaiden - 7.5 million
- Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty - 5 million users
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Love Nioh and Ninja Gaiden series, they deserve way higher sales 😑
Ninja Gaiden deserves so much more than 7.5 million - is that really across all titles, going back to the SNES days? Or just starting with Ninja Gaiden on Xbox?
Not too great, but to be honest, Koei Tecmo offers really poor discounts for their titles, and the sales numbers could be a lot better if the discounts were better too.
Nioh should easily sit at top 1, but being top 2 soon is a start.
This is is actually not half bad for Tecmo. Maybe Nioh has given people a false impression but they have been chugging along due to modest sales of iterative sequels for quite a while.
And 10m on a 3 game IP must be great for them.
It looks like Nioh is their overachiever
Those are some subpar numbers. Single Nintendo titles have outsold many of these series. Ninja Gaiden sales are especially disappointing.
This is a silly way to look at it, I mean Red Dead Redemption 2 has single handedly outsold many Nintendo franchises like Kirby...
Some franchises are nich and that's okay. There are devs who celebrate when a game has sold 500k... Main thing is whether it's profitable.
Welcome to reality for 95% of video game devs
