Phantom Blade Zero is Steam's biggest launch of the year so far, selling over 4 million copies in three days
Phantom Blade Zero studio S-Game has announced that its debut title has sold more than 4m copies in its first 72 hours on sale.
Phantom Blade Zero studio S-Game has announced that its debut title has sold more than 4m copies in its first 72 hours on sale.
The short version
- The game's official X account broke the news alongside a celebratory message, though without providing a per-platform breakdown of copies sold.
- "Thank you everyone from the bottom of our hearts for all the love and support!" the developer wrote on X .
- Phantom Blade Zero is available on Steam and PlayStation 5, but the 4m figure also includes sales made on the China-exclusive Tencent WeGame PC launcher.
What happened
Prior to launch, Alinea Analytics analyst Rhys Elliott estimated Phantom Blade Zero to have sold over 1m copies before it had even released . It was always clear the third-person character action game was going to be a hit, we just had to wait for actual figures to be released.
Why it matters
Phantom Blade Zero attracted over 431,000 concurrent players on Steam at launch, a figure that kept risking and rising into the weekend, ultimately settling at a massive 833,921 peak concurrent (via SteamDB ).
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