Wo Lengthy: Fallen Dynasty appears to be off to an incredible begin because of Recreation Move, reaching a first-week TrueAchievements participant rely 15% up on Elden Ring and over double the top-performing Darkish Souls recreation.
Many hundreds of courageous souls have set their sights on the Wo Lengthy achievements because it launched as top-of-the-line video games on Recreation Move earlier this month, with our Wo Lengthy evaluation praising the sport’s “incredible fundamentals and rewarding fight.” Taking a look at TA participant counts from the primary full week, we see that Workforce Ninja’s incredible new Three Kingdoms-flavoured action-RPG has given the style’s highest a run for his or her cash, with the Recreation Move impact resulting in week-one numbers significantly forward of 2022 hit Elden Ring, and solely simply shy of matching the first-week TA participant counts of each Darkish Souls recreation mixed… and that is together with Scholar of the First Sin and Darkish Souls Remastered.
Wo Lengthy invades FromSoftware’s battlefield with robust first-week numbers
In its first full week, Wo Lengthy pulled in effectively over 85,000 tracked gamers on TrueAchievements, a fantastic debut for a recreation that begins out tough sufficient that the majority Xbox gamers have not overwhelmed Wo Lengthy’s first boss. Elden Ring, for comparability, hit 76,000 week one, with out the ability of Recreation Move backing it up, in fact, however it was nonetheless one in every of 2022’s greatest video games so it is a formidable feat for Workforce Ninja’s title all the identical. Trying on the Darkish Souls video games, none even come near Wo Lengthy’s flying begin — Darkish Souls 3 managed 35k, with many of the others across the teenagers, in order talked about, it could take the mixed week-one TA participant counts of your entire Darkish Souls collection to rival Wo Lengthy’s opening week.
If we take a look at the broader participant base with a bit assist from our historic Xbox Gameplay Chart numbers, we see that Elden Ring was performed by slightly below 9% of the 2 million-odd accounts scanned in its first-week knowledge, with Wo Lengthy not too far behind at over 8% in its opening week. Whereas that paints a barely much less rosy image than the TA participant knowledge, it is nonetheless spectacular for a brand-new IP to come back in so near one of many greatest video games of final yr. Sadly, our chart knowledge would not return far sufficient to succeed in the Souls video games, however with Elden Ring being From’s most profitable recreation so far and Wo Lengthy having such a snug lead over them primarily based on the TA member pattern, it is most likely protected to imagine we might see a win for Workforce Ninja there if we did have the numbers.
Questioning how Wo Lengthy might need completed with out Recreation Move backing it up? We need not deal in hypotheticals right here, since sister website TrueTrophies additionally runs its personal PlayStation Gameplay Chart we are able to take a look at. Our chart noticed Wo Lengthy are available in simply outdoors the highest 5 in its first full week at sixth, however over on PlayStation, it solely managed twenty fifth. Fairly the distinction.
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