Ten million Black Myth Wukong sold in 3 days, the success is monumental and global. The title from Game Science studios allows itself to do as well as launches such as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Pokémon Violet & Pokémon Ecarlate which also reached the same figure in the same time frame, while Elden Ring only managed to exceed 5 million copies in three days. Huge, solid numbers that we expected, since the game recorded more than 2.4 million players connected simultaneously on Steam, again another record. If we add the number of players on PS5, Epic Games Store and WeGame (a Chinese platform), the threshold of 3 million simultaneous players has been crossed.
Figures that make your head spin and make many detractors jealous, who were quick to put the success of Black Myuth Wukong into perspective. You see, there are 1.4 billion people in China, which explains such a launch. The kind of question that is never raised when we talk about the 15/30 million Call of Duty games sold each year, and whose reach to the American public is never highlighted. Hypocrisy when you hold us… While waiting for more detailed official figures, it is rumored that 6 million of the sales were made in China, compared to 4 million in the rest of the world. If these figures are true, this means a great appetite from the Western public for the stories of Sun Wukong in dark fantasy version. Enough to reshuffle the cards and mark this day as a real turning point in the consumption of video games in China, since it is the first purely solo AAA to break through so much in the country of Xi Jinping. A game changer for the industry?