Black Myth Wukong developer Recreation Science is engaged on an Elden Ring-style growth for the sport forward of any sequel.
A Bloomberg report into Recreation Science investor Hero Video games has revealed an up to date gross sales determine for the smash hit Black Myth Wukong, which set Steam concurrents information upon its launch final month.
Black Myth Wukong offered an eye-watering 18 million copies in simply two weeks throughout PC and PlayStation 5, Bloomberg reported, making over $700 million in income to this point. That’s sufficient to place Black Myth Wukong up there with Grand Theft Auto 5 and Name of Responsibility: Trendy Warfare 2 as one of many fastest-selling video games of all time.
In a subsequent tweet, Daniel Ahmad, director of analysis and perception at Niko Companions, stated the $700 million determine is definitely dated August 30, and that Black Myth Wukong is now across the $800 million mark. That’s an astonishing return for a recreation Bloomberg reported had a funds of $70 million over six years of improvement.
Followers, although, will probably be most all for Recreation Science’s plans for Black Myth Wukong now it’s out within the wild. Whereas the developer has but to say, Bloomberg’s report confirmed an growth is within the works, with Recreation Science stated to be following Elden Ring’s lead. Elden Ring, itself one of many best-selling video video games of all-time, noticed a big growth DLC referred to as Shadow of the Erdtree launch in 2024, two years after the bottom recreation.
From Bloomberg: “It gained’t take one other six years for the subsequent chapter in what’s deliberate to be a collection based mostly on Chinese language mythology — although that gained’t be a sequel, Wu [Daniel Wu, Hero Games boss] stated. Recreation Science is engaged on an growth to Wukong, which can give it an opportunity to monetize the sport a second time. 2022’s Elden Ring, a title with related play fashion and design, has proven how the discharge of an growth — this yr’s Shadow of the Erdtree — can spur a contemporary flurry of gross sales for the unique.”
Final month, IGN verified an e-mail despatched from the Black Myth: Wukong advertising and marketing crew at Hero Video games that advised content material creators who have been granted a Steam key that they have to not embrace “feminist propaganda” or use what are referred to as “set off phrases” resembling COVID-19 of their protection. On the time, Hero Video games failed to reply to IGN’s request for touch upon the matter, and Wu declined to remark when requested by Bloomberg.
Recreation Science has but to reply to IGN’s earlier report compiling quite a few sexist feedback made by the studio’s founders and different builders spanning the final decade.
In the meantime, Black Myth: Wukong’s delay on Xbox is because of an exclusivity cope with Sony and never a improvement situation with Microsoft’s consoles, a educated supply has advised IGN.
This week, a Microsoft spokesperson issued IGN a contemporary assertion: “As we’ve got stated earlier than, we’re excited for the launch of Black Myth Wukong on Xbox Collection X and S and are working with Recreation Science to carry the sport to our platforms,” the spokesperson stated.
“We would want to not touch upon the offers made by our companions with different platform holders however we are able to verify that the delay will not be attributable to Xbox platform limitations which have been raised to us.”
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IGN’s Black Myth: Wukong evaluate returned an 8/10. We stated: “Regardless of some irritating technical points, Black Myth: Wukong is a superb motion recreation with unbelievable fight, thrilling bosses, tantalizing secrets and techniques, and a phenomenal world.”
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