In the United States, FromSoftware’s new game has immediately become the best-selling game of the year so far.

Elden Ring launched on February 25 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. So it’s pretty much the end of the month for the game to hit stores via Bandai Namco’s publishing. That didn’t bother the Japanese team, as NPD Group analyst Mat Piscatella wrote on Twitter that despite the game having had only four days on the market, it was in such high demand that it finished at number one in the NPD charts for February!

The result made Elden Ring the best-selling game of 2022 so far and looking at the twelve months ending February 2022, FromSoftware’s game has also just shot into fifth place. Only one game has had a more robust release month than that, and you can yawn because it’s what everyone thinks it is (Call of Duty: Vanguard). It’s the Japanese studio’s most successful release, with the biggest UK store debut since 2018’s Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar/Take-Two) or the annual FIFA games (EA Sports/Electronic Arts). It also had more than 950,000 simultaneous players on Steam. That’s more than seven times the peak of Dark Souls III!

Elden Ring did not come out on top on PlayStation consoles, where it was beaten by Horizon Forbidden West (which finished second in the NPD charts). The PlayStation 5 version of Guerrilla Games’ game set a record for dollar sales on the November 2020-launched console. It was released a week before Elden Ring on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 on February 18. January’s winner, Pokémon Legends: Arceus, slipped back into third place, ahead of Dying Light 2 and Total War: Warhammer III (both new releases).

Nintendo Switch also pulled in February regarding the number of units and dollars generated, with the Xbox Series finishing in second place. So the PlayStation 5 has to step its game up…

Source: VGC