It certain is wanting like Tekken 8 has a brilliant future forward of it, because the combating recreation has managed to hit two million copies bought in its first month.
Tekken 8 is the primary new mainline entry within the long-running combating collection in a few decade, so it had quite a bit to reside as much as. Fortunately, it turned out to be superb, really, and because it seems that high quality has translated into some sturdy gross sales figures too. Earlier immediately, 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’ complete highest gross sales file 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 bought a lot sooner than 7 is tough to say, although it’ll positively be partly 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 seems to be like Tekken 8 is nicely prepped to overhaul 7’s lifetime gross sales data, although we have clearly bought some time to go earlier than that occurs.
It additionally seems to be prefer it’s transport on the identical tempo as fellow combating recreation large Avenue Fighter 6, which additionally managed to promote two million copies in the identical timeframe. Tekken 7 really ended up promoting greater than Avenue Fighter 5, however proper now it seems to be like the 2 traditional collection may find yourself shifting comparable 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.