Wo Lengthy: Fallen Dynasty seems to be off to an incredible begin because of Sport Go, reaching a first-week TrueAchievements participant rely 15% up on Elden Ring and over double the top-performing Darkish Souls sport.
Many 1000’s of courageous souls have set their sights on the Wo Lengthy achievements because it launched as the most effective video games on Sport Go earlier this month, with our Wo Lengthy evaluation praising the sport’s “implausible fundamentals and rewarding fight.” Taking a look at TA participant counts from the primary full week, we see that Crew Ninja’s implausible new Three Kingdoms-flavoured action-RPG has given the style’s best a run for his or her cash, with the Sport Go 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 sport 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 nicely over 85,000 tracked gamers on TrueAchievements, an ideal debut for a sport that begins out tough sufficient that the majority Xbox gamers have not crushed Wo Lengthy’s first boss. Elden Ring, for comparability, hit 76,000 week one, with out the ability of Sport Go backing it up, in fact, nevertheless it was nonetheless one in all 2022’s greatest video games so it is a powerful feat for Crew Ninja’s title all the identical. Wanting on the Darkish Souls video games, none even come near Wo Lengthy’s flying begin — Darkish Souls 3 managed 35k, with a lot of the others across the teenagers, in order talked about, it will take the mixed week-one TA participant counts of the complete Darkish Souls sequence to rival Wo Lengthy’s opening week.
If we take a look at the broader participant base with a little 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 information, 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 information, it is nonetheless spectacular for a brand-new IP to return in so near one of many greatest video games of final 12 months. Sadly, our chart information does not return far sufficient to achieve the Souls video games, however with Elden Ring being From’s most profitable sport so far and Wo Lengthy having such a snug lead over them primarily based on the TA member pattern, it is in all probability secure to imagine we might see a win for Crew Ninja there if we did have the numbers.
Questioning how Wo Lengthy might need finished with out Sport Go backing it up? We needn’t deal in hypotheticals right here, since sister web site TrueTrophies additionally runs its personal PlayStation Gameplay Chart we are able to take a look at. Our chart noticed Wo Lengthy are available 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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