{"id":557033,"date":"2024-08-24T08:15:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T06:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=557033"},"modified":"2024-08-24T08:15:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T06:15:23","slug":"tencent-backed-video-game-sells-10-million-copies-in-83-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/557033-tencent-backed-video-game-sells-10-million-copies-in-83-hours.html","title":{"rendered":"Tencent-backed video game sells 10 million copies in 83 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Black Myth: Wukong<\/em>, a Chinese-made video game backed by Tencent Holdings Ltd., took just 83 hours to sell 10 million copies, one of the fastest debuts in industry history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game reached the milestone by Friday evening Beijing time after being released on Tuesday, developer Game Science\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tencent has a 5% stake in Game Science, and South African company Naspers owns 24% of Tencent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its peak concurrent users, which counts the number of people playing at one time around the world, reached 3 million across PC and PlayStation platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An action-adventure title based on the mythology around the fabled Monkey King, Wukong <\/em>was an instant success and became the most popular single-player title on PC platform Steam on its first day, toppling much-hyped competition like Cyberpunk 2077 <\/em>and Elden Ring, <\/em>according to data tracker SteamDB<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game\u2019s popularity endured and it set a new high of concurrent players on Steam on Thursday, confirming its position as the biggest PC debut in recent memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game is priced at about $38 in mainland China and Hong Kong \u2014 versus $60 in the US \u2014 and skews heavily toward the local market. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It lovingly recreates historic Chinese temples and one of its founders expressed<\/a> \u201cthe simple love\u201d for the nation in a documentary by state news agency Xinhua on the eve of the game\u2019s release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wukong <\/em>turned profitable on its first day and earned more than $450 million in gross revenue over its first three days, according to Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sony Group Corp. ran a sales promotion for its PlayStation 5 in China for the week around Wukong<\/em>\u2019s launch and saw stores sell out of the console, Ahmad added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Counting sales across Valve Corp.\u2019s Steam, Sony\u2019s PlayStation 5 and Tencent\u2019s WeGame, Wukong<\/em> has reached the 10 million copies milestone faster than Elden Ring <\/em>and Hogwarts Legacy<\/em>, both considered smash hits<\/a> in their own right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The strong performance may help shore up expectations that China\u2019s $40 billion-plus gaming arena is rounding a corner, after years of regulatory holdups. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This summer marked an unusually busy season of major debuts, including Tencent\u2019s DnF Mobile<\/em>, NetEase Inc.\u2019s Naraka: Bladepoint Mobile<\/em> and indie studio Mihoyo\u2019s ZZZ<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Developed by Hangzhou-based Game Science, Wukong<\/em> marks China\u2019s biggest PC launch in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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