PlayStation’s Horizon Games Have Sold Over 38m Copies, Tencent Lawsuit Reveals – WGB

Sony is having a busy week, filing a lawsuit against Chinese giant Tencent over allegations that Tencent has created a clone of the Horizon series. That court docket case ought to be fascinating to look at, however till these fireworks begin going off we will take pleasure in choosing over among the little particulars.

Within the authorized paperwork filed in opposition to Tencent, Sony revealed up to date gross sales numbers for the Horizon collection. In line with them, the video games have now surpassed 38 million copies bought in whole. That’s 5.3 million extra copies than once we final obtained official phrase again in April of 2023. Since that information was launched, Horizon Name of the Mountain, LEGO Horizon Adventures and Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered additionally launched.

Whereas gross sales of Horizon Zero Daybreak Remastered undoubtedly counted towards this whole, we don’t know the way Sony is counting Zero Daybreak Remastered upgrades. Nor do we all know if any DLC is being included, both.

So the 5.3 million copies bought since April 2023 shall be a combination of all these new releases, plus the unique two video games that are regularly accessible at a reduction. Sadly, I can’t break it down any additional with out venturing into pure hypothesis. However let’s not let that cease us, eh? Horizon Name of the Mountain and LEGO Horizon each probably didn’t contribute a lot to the 5.3 million. LEGO Horizon charted poorly, and even fairly profitable VR video games don’t shift plenty of copies. In different phrases, a lot of the 5.3 million in all probability got here from the primary two video games and the remaster.

However no matter the way it all breaks down, it’s straightforward to see why PlayStation retains pushing the Horizon collection so onerous. At 38 million copies, Horizon sits as PlayStation’s sixth greatest franchise by way of copies bought, a full 3 million forward of The Final of Us and simply 2 million shy of Ratchet & Clank.

Proper now, we reliably know of a minimum of three extra Horizon video games within the works, comprising of a 3rd entry within the mainline collection, some type of multiplayer spinoff and an MMO being developed by NCSoft. There’s additionally a film/television collection within the works as properly.