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Dark Souls ships 1.5 million worldwide

NewsPublish Date 02/11/2011 - 9:21am GMT

Europe accounts for 470,000 units.

From Software and Namco Bandai has announced that Dark Souls has shipped in excess of 1.5 million units worldwide. The rock-hard action RPG has shipped the most units in North America, followed by Europe, then Japan.

Dark Souls shipment figures:

Japan: Released on 9/22, 370,000 shipped
North America: Released on 10/4, 620,000 shipped
Europe: Released on 10/7, 470,000 shipped
Asia: Released on 10/18, 40,000 shipped

Dark Souls is notoriously hard, but still received high review scores. We awarded the game an 8/10 in our Dark Souls review.

Via Andriasang

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mydeaddog @ FantasyMeister

Stick with it, it's amazing once it clicks.

Even Tom Orry managed to kill the first proper boss. You can do it, and given your love of RPGS, I urge you to stick with it. It's my favourite game of the year now; it de-throned Deus Ex.

Which class did you pick? It doesn't matter in the long term, but the first few hours are much harder with certain load-outs.

Anyway, I'll cut the rant there. Drop me a DM if you want an early hint or two.

Posted 13:35 on 07 November 2011

Clockpunk

Good to see its selling well - I do mean to pick up a copy at somepoint in the future - maybe one for next summer's gaming drought...

Posted 13:03 on 05 November 2011

Stegosaurus-Guy-II @ FantasyMeister

You quit before even getting to the first mini boss?

Haha.

Posted 12:33 on 05 November 2011

FantasyMeister

I picked it up last night in ASDA (full price, but it's the first time in AGES I've been able to sniff a new manual). I rage quit after an hour, but at least I got as far as the 2nd bonfire.

Despite this, it's a good game, lots of tweaky stuff, ticks all the right boxes, just insanely difficult to get into.

I can't remember the last time I rage quit anything videogame related, so not sure if that's a positive or negative.

Posted 16:08 on 04 November 2011

Woffls

I find it reassuring that a new IP from a developer that has always focussed on the Japanese market can succeed in this market by releasing a game that's designed to make people hate it and themselves.

Posted 10:45 on 02 November 2011