Since its release in August of last year, Armored Core VI has managed to amass 3 million sales.
In a recent Tweet from both Bandai Namco and FromSoftware, it seems that Armored Core VI has sold 3 million copies across all platforms since its release.
Having looked at the game’s credits and ascertaining the game’s rough headcount, as well as how long it was in development, it’s likely that Armored Core VI turned a decent profit relative to its investment.
For an Armored Core game, that is excellent news. Most of the older games tended to sell between 250 to 500 thousand copies each.
The big caveat to those figures is that the older games received little or no promotion and had pretty terrible localization, something that Armored Core VI finally corrected.
Moreover, the popularity of FromSoftware’s other recent games will have likely had a positive promotional impact as well.
That said, to put these figures into perspective, the first Titanfall managed to sell 10 million copies. That was a new franchise and with a new studio, admittedly with many of the key people from Infinity Ward.
By contrast, the Armored Core games have been going since 1997 and FromSoftware is now a very well-established studio.
Considering how well many of the recent FromSoftware games have done and how mecha games like Titanfall have sold, I would have expected these sales to be a bit higher. Maybe more in the 5 to 10 million sales range.
However, if you insist on throwing new players into a mechanical woodchipper on the first level, you will probably put off a fair few prospective customers. Not to mention that failing to highlight the game’s impressive array of mecha designers, all of whom have a big international anime following, is a very strange marketing oversight.
These sales figures are still good news though, and Armored Core is now finally a gaming series that people are beginning to take more seriously. Here’s hoping FromSoftware can build on this success and keep the mecha momentum going.
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