From Software the developer of the excellent series of Dark Souls games has this week unveiled that sales for the games series have now passed 8.5 million copies.
Even though Dark Souls was not originally intended fro a PC launch out of those 8.5 million copies roughly 3.25 million where sold for PC systems according to figures from SteamSpy, although these figures might be incorrect some think.
Figures that have been revealed by From Software :
– Dark Souls has sold 2,828,000 units worldwide
– Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition (“with Artorias of the Abyss”) has sold 2,765,000 units worldwide
– D Souls 2 has sold 2,311,000 units worldwide
– D Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin has sold 600,000 units worldwide
– That’s a total of 8,504,000 sold
While PC specific numbers according to SteamSpy :
– Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition has sold 1,977,541 (+/- 33,243) units on Steam
– Dark Souls 2 has sold 994,455 (+/- 23,621) units on Steam
– Dark Souls 2: Scholars of the First Sin has sold 256,772 (+/- 12,021) units on Steam
– That’s a total of 3,228,768 sold (+/- 68,885)
for more details on the inconsistencies that are being discussed with regards the PC sales of the Dark Souls games jump over to the Eurogamer website via the link below.
Source: NeoGAF : Famitsu : Eurogamer