As revealed by market analyst NPD Group, Elden Ring has been the best-selling game in the United States in Februarysomething quite remarkable when the game only debuted on February 25, so in less than a week it surpassed any other game in revenue, even the PlayStation exclusive, the Horizon II: Forbidden Westwhich debuted a week earlier and had to settle for second place. Pokémon Legends: Arceuswas the big loser that month, since it fell to third place.

Perhaps the most striking of all is that Elden Ring is already the fifth best-selling game in a period of 12 monthswhich ended in February 2022, that is, in less than a week, it managed to surpass a large number of games that had been accumulating copies sold for up to a year.

It is also revealed that FromSoftware’s game is the company’s most popular game to date, and that is that in the United Kingdom It also enjoyed the biggest launch seen to date beating big stars such as FIFA, Call of Duty and even the launch of Red Dead Redemption 2 in 2018. As far as Steam is concernedwe are talking about the sixth best launch that a game has had on said platform, accumulating just over 950,000 simultaneous playersthus surpassing by seven the data harvested by Dark Souls III.

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As if that wasn’t enough, in the last 24 hours it has marked a peak of 730,458 simultaneous playersso more than two weeks after its release, the game is still holding the majority of players.