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Journey to Success: Black Myth Wukong Breaks Records on Day One

Journey to Success: Black Myth Wukong Breaks Records on Day One Black Myth: Wukong, an action RPG developed by Chinese studio Game Science, has had an extremely successful launch following its release on August 20, 2024, for PC and PS5. The high sales, particularly within China, reflect the...

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[FoxMcChief]

That’s great to hear.

 

[YCoCg]

Son Wukong power!

 

[Aenima]

Well, Sony did made an effort for that to happen. All big AAA games coming from China will have a PS5 version as far as im aware.

 

[rodrigolfp]

Hardware - Sales-Age - Bloomberg: ‘Wukong’ Game Debut Drives PlayStation 5 to Top of Alibaba Tmall

(Bloomberg) -- The release of China’s biggest PC game to date, Black Myth: Wukong, also sparked an unusual buying spree for Sony Group Corp.’s PlayStation 5. The PS5 jumped to the top of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s list for electronics game equipment in the week leading up to Wukong’s Aug. 20...

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[jm89]

Hardware - Sales-Age - Bloomberg: ‘Wukong’ Game Debut Drives PlayStation 5 to Top of Alibaba Tmall

(Bloomberg) -- The release of China’s biggest PC game to date, Black Myth: Wukong, also sparked an unusual buying spree for Sony Group Corp.’s PlayStation 5. The PS5 jumped to the top of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s list for electronics game equipment in the week leading up to Wukong’s Aug. 20...

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That's something different.

 

[PeteBull]

I gues top2 of all time steam concurent users game might have positive effect, since its effectively "free" timed console exclusive for sony now

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Damn

 

[tommib]

Has the Dictator trolled this as well?

 

[winjer]

That monkey powaaaaa

 

[rodrigolfp]

That's something different.

The number 2 on twitter post.

 

[nial]

Yeah, we had data straight from SCE about this in March 2022.
I know for a fact that PS4 (released in Mainland China on March 20, 2015) had sold 1.5M units by August 2018, and then 3.5M units by December 2020. I wonder how much has PS5 sold yet over there?
I also wonder how much PS Vita sold in its 4 year lifecycle over there (it was released on the same day as PS4 in Mainland China).

 

[FStubbs]

The road to 200 million goes through China?

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

I do think that Chinese Hero project will help too. Wukong was just a star of a trend for local AAA single-player games.

 

[Pop]

Playstation about to capture that China money

 

[Zathalus]

The aim from the start was 7 million sold in China. So it’s on track for what Sony has hoped (double PS4 lifetime of 3.5million). It’s going to take a while to reach Europe/USA numbers, if it ever does.

 

[killatopak]

The coveted 1%.

 

[Hudo]

Would be weird if it didn't. Sony have pushed Chinese stuff quite a lot in their marketing events (Absolute State, etc.)

 

[Loomy]

Would be weird if it didn't. Sony have pushed Chinese stuff quite a lot in their marketing events (Absolute State, etc.)

It's not just marketing. It's real and significant development and publishing investment they're making in regions that have typically been left alone.

 

[Mr.Phoenix]

The road to 200 million goes through China?

Yes.