A perfect follow-up to a great predecessor whose success had already been announced. God of War Ragnarok. And that success was evident in first-week sales.
PlayStation Studio CEO Hermann Hirst and PlayStation Official Account revealed the sales volume of God of War Ragnarok via SNS on the 24th. The game’s disc and digital sales sold 5.1 million copies during the week of release. Since the game was released on the 9th, if you just look at the release week record, that’s the number recorded as of Sunday the 13th.
It is common for a significant amount of game sales to be concentrated in the first few days of release, but as the game has received good reviews, subsequent sales trends are expected to follow as well. As a result, the actual sales volume as of the 24th, when the release week sales volume was announced, is expected to be much higher than the announced number.
Meanwhile, this sales figure is the highest in the God of War franchise and the fastest sales rate among first-party PlayStation games. God of War, which was released on PlayStation 4, has sold around 2.26 million copies according to a third-party survey. In other words, the sales performance has more than doubled.
God of War Ragnarok is a work that concludes the story of a new God of War who has moved the stage on Norse mythology. Notably, it garnered favorable reviews from critics for its expanded narrative design while still taking the strengths of its predecessor. Game director Eric Williams, who recently appeared on the Kinda Funny Games podcast channel, also showed a relatively negative opinion about the story completion and story DLC, so the God of War series should use this success as a stepping stone to move forward. towards the next job.
