Black Myth: WuKong sales topped 20 million copies in just one month: PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi talks about the phenomenal success of the Chinese game

Chinese action game Black Myth: WuKong, without exaggeration, became the biggest hit of 2024 and one of the most successful games of recent years. In just three days after release, Black Myth: WuKong sales exceeded 10 million copies.

A month has passed since the release of the game from Game Science studio and another impressive figure has been announced.

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At Tokyo Game Show 2024, one of the key creators of PlayStation consoles Ken Kutaragi revealed that according to his data Black Myth: WuKong sales exceeded 20 million copies in the first month! This makes the action game the best-selling game of 2024, and it's worth noting that not only the high interest of the Chinese audience, but also the excellent quality of execution contributed to this.

There are no critical bugs in WuKong, the game works as it should, but the developers do not stop striving for perfection and have already released several patches.

Ken Kutaragi also mentioned that the total peak online Black Myth on PC and PlayStation 5 was three million players. As a reminder, this figure was over 2.4 million on Steam alone, which is a record among single-player games.

There's no doubt that interest in Black Myth: WuKong won't diminish in the coming months and we'll hear more impressive sales figures, especially if the game does release on Xbox.

By the way, according to insider information, Game Science will release the first story add-on in early 2025 - in time for the Lunar New Year.

Source: Insider gaming