It positive is trying like Tekken 8 has a shiny future forward of it, because the preventing recreation has managed to hit two million copies offered in its first month.
Tekken 8 is the primary new mainline entry within the long-running preventing collection in a couple of decade, so it had lots to dwell as much as. Fortunately, it turned out to be excellent, truly, and because it seems that high quality has translated into some sturdy gross sales figures too. Earlier right this moment, Bandai Namco introduced that the sport has managed to promote two million copies since its launch a month in the past. “The sale of over 2 million copies within the first month of launch drastically outpaces its predecessor, ‘Tekken 7,’ which continues to be being performed and has the collection’ whole highest gross sales report of over 11.8 million copies worldwide,” reads a press launch on the information.
For context, Tekken 7 solely managed to promote two million models greater than two years after it launched, so truthfully saying that the sequel “drastically outpaces its predecessor” is a little bit of an understatement. Why Tekken 8 has offered a lot quicker than 7 is difficult to say, although it’ll positively be partially as a result of extra persons are gaming than ever earlier than, in no small half due to COVID lockdowns. With a begin like this, it actually appears to be like like Tekken 8 is effectively prepped to overhaul 7’s lifetime gross sales information, although we have clearly obtained some time to go earlier than that occurs.
It additionally appears to be like prefer it’s delivery on the similar tempo as fellow preventing recreation big Avenue Fighter 6, which additionally managed to promote two million copies in the identical timeframe. Tekken 7 truly ended up promoting greater than Avenue Fighter 5, however proper now it appears to be like like the 2 traditional collection would possibly find yourself shifting related numbers, relying on how efficiently they each sustain with post-launch content material.
Tekken 8 gamers have been barely annoyed with plans for the sport, although, as the sport is about to add-in paid cosmetics, one thing that wasn’t within the recreation at launch.
