With the majority playing on PC
Black Myth: Wukong continues to put up big numbers, with former PlayStation CEO Ken Kuturagi revealing at Tokyo Game Show that developer Game Science moved an astonishing 20 million units in the weeks following launch. For comparison, GTA V is the fastest-selling game of all time, moving around 11 million copies in 24 hours. It took Hogwarts Legacy, meanwhile, most of 2023 to cross that 20 million mark.
Some more interesting tidbits were gleaned by Insider Gaming, with the outlet doing some SteamDB sleuthing and napkin math. The banner behind Kuturagi proclaims that Wukong enjoyed three million concurrents at launch. Gaben says 2.4 million of that was on Steam, meaning that around 600,000 PS5 players contributed at its peak. Or, put another way, that means (at least in terms of concurrents) around 80% of Black Myth: Wukong players were on PC.
With Game Science located in Shenzen, China, and the game itself being an adaptation of Journey to the West, it is not much of a surprise to learn that the game has been a big hit in the developer’s home nation, which would also account for the PC/PS5 disparity. Until 2015, the Chinese government imposed a near-total ban on video game consoles, and PC and mobile platforms have a commanding headstart in this powerful market. Considering that Black Myth: Wukong is Game Science’s first premium single-player outing, we’d say the future looks exceptionally bright for the studio.
Are you surprised by the success found by Black Myth: Wukong, in a year where even safe bets have struggled to find an audience? Let us know in the comments section below.
[source x.com, via insider-gaming.com]
Khayl Adam is Push Square’s roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.
