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Dark Souls Series Has Sold 8 Million Copies Worldwide, 40% Coming From The PC Platform

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Bandai Namco has revealed that its Dark Souls series has sold 8 million copies worldwide. However, what’s interesting here is that 40% of those sales is from the PC. Yeap, you read that right. Even though the first Dark Souls game got an awful port – and the PC version of Dark Souls 2 lacked the advanced lighting system that was showcased prior to the game’s release – this series has managed to sell 3.2 million copies on PC alone.

Going into more details – and according to Steamspy’s stats – the first Dark Souls game has sold 1,966,773 copies, while Dark Souls 2 and Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin have sold 987,618 and 248,659 copies, respectively.

This is definitely amazing news for PC gamers as these sales prove that PC gamers have embraced this title.

Here is hoping that Dark Souls III will be better optimized – in every aspect – than its predecessors.

Kudos to our reader ‘Raushan Seboa’ for informing us and NeoGAF for reporting the news!

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  • Gutts

    Very nice!

  • FasterThanFTL

    LOL, consoles are dead.

    Also don’t forget many sales for Dark Souls: Prepare To Edition will not be on steam because it was a Games For Windows title with no steamworks as well.

  • The PC Master Race

    “Consoles always outsell PC” they said. Meanwhile the PC version of Dark Souls outsells the PS3 version.

    Wonder how the Dualshillers vermin will spin this.

    • Did you see the Uncharter 3 footage recently the devs showed behind closed doors? Game Trailers showed it and it looked like a perfect movie scripted sequence with perfect graphics. That’s got to be the best bullshit footage of a game I’ve ever seen.

      • The PC Master Race

        It’s naughty dog. They will show some bullshot scripted footage with the bare minimum of interactivity, downgrade it and the press shills and fanboy vermin will claim it was never downgraded in the first place.

        • datdude

          LOL…listen to these sorry saps who never experienced the brilliance of Uncharted or The Last of Us. Poor bastards.

          • The PC Master Race

            Oh look. One of the fanboy vermin showed up. Hi console peasant! Don’t be alarmed that this site operates at 60FPS. Your peasant eyes are too used to 30FPS, just like Uncharted 4 :^)

          • datdude

            A guy who sits alone typing away furiously on a computer with not a pot to [email protected] in is calling someone else a peasant….typical. Get a job, get a life, get a grip.

          • The PC Master Race

            Don’t you have yet another 30FPS downgraded game to defend?

          • datdude

            Don’t you have yet another pair of your urine stained panties to wash?

          • Olek S.

          • Yep, Naughty Dog just confirmed 30fps and basically said the game would look sh*t at 60fps if they did it, since they’d have to optimise all the assets to much lower quality.

        • I can confirm The Witcher 3 is lower than low PC settings on the PS4, not just background NPCs but shadow distance as well, foliage distance is medium. Basically you can’t get the PC setting to draw lower than the PS4 version.

    • João Felipe Autran Apaes

      They’ll probably combine the sales of PS3 and 360 to say the sales were greater than on PC, rather than evaluate them individualy.

      • Grim

        They(the Sony and MS fans) would only combine to form a giant entity whenever they face the PC, especially when it comes to multiplatform games. That’s why they always turn to exclusives as a shield. Take away the PC from the discussion you’ll see them scratching and biting each other like there’s no tomorrow.

        Most of them were smug when Batman Arkham Knight was a total mess on the PC but when one start to compare stuff between their consoles…

  • s3rius

    Not bad, especially considering that DS hit Windows a year after it came out on consoles. And DSII was a month later.

  • 7thGuest

    And that coming from a bad port.
    From now on please devs/pubs, show more love for the PC platform!

  • Adrián Alucard

    I’ll like to play DS3 Complete Edition with mi keyboard+mouse, unlike DS2 Incomplete Edition that is just unplayable…

    • Ginryu

      it was completely playable with mouse and keyboard imo. for example a game like DMC 4 Special Edition is unplayable with Mouse.

      • Adrián Alucard

        Nope.

        Mouse is laggy and if you press shift or control (walk/shield) the mouse stop working.

        • Ginryu

          never happened to me which is why i said “imo”. it’s better than games like DMC4 Special Edition that completely lack any Mouse support outside of game menus.

  • BACE

    RPG genre always belonged to the PC just like FPS and RTS, no console can change that !

  • Yeltnerb1

    Yet the PC versions of Dark Souls games are consolized cacadoodle.

  • HA! Take that console gamers. We are obviously more masochist than you!

  • Akirascreaming

    PC is the king

  • zin33

    =O

  • Akirascreaming

    Best game :O

  • Nines

    Dark Souls 2 could have sold so much better. They promised us that “PC will be the main platform”, but in the end they throw us another shoddy port with horrible graphics and controls.

    Oh, and later they even started selling a graphical upgrade, that doesn’t really change anything. Good job, Namco & From! PC gamers gave you a warm welcome, and you f*cked it up.

    • SGTBuzzyBean

      DkS2 had shoddy KB/M controls but the port itself was WAY better than DkS1.

      • Nines

        No one denies that it’s better, but Dark Souls: PTDE at least has some kind of excuse, since it was probably their first game on PC. Fans asked them to port this game on PC, and they did it quickly just to see how it work out.

        With the second game, they promised much for PC players, and expectations were accordingly higher. There is no excuses for the shoddy PC port of DS2.

        • SGTBuzzyBean

          It’s only a shoddy port if you insist on playing with the KB/M and are butthurt over the graphics downgrade.

          • Nines

            And why the hell I shouldn’t? I’m a PC gamer, and they selling this game for 60 bucks.

            Of course I want a game that supports KB/M properly, considering that DS is not a game from a genre which cannot be properly adapted for KB/M. And of course I want modern graphics, not some PS2 visuals, considering that they made Bloodborne with the visuals from the first DS2 trailers.

            Not to say that false advertising is illegal, but with fans like you, they can get away with anything.

          • SGTBuzzyBean

            Calm your tits man. My point is that while it is bad they didn’t develop proper KB/M controls, most ended up playing the series with the gamepad anyway and while the downgrade did s*ck at least the game ran at a constant 60fps on even low-end machines so at the very least the downgrade resulted in much better performance.

    • Insight of Olostronus

      Still don’t forget this bulls**t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_JFDPCtXFY

  • António Silva

    Impressive how that crappy port sold so much on the PC. The first crappy port was even worse, ridicullous to the point of having the tool tips only mention the controller, eventhough you are playing with a mouse and keyboard. Not getting a game from Fromsoftware, no way.

  • SGTBuzzyBean

    Glad the series has sold so well but even more glad that PC gamers make up the bulk of the community 🙂

  • archaven

    kind of suxs no bloodborne on PC though 🙁

  • born2expire

    heres hoping DS3 will have proper Keyboard and mouse controls, oh wait i wont be falling for their lies this time,.

  • Gleison Albuquerque

    Remake DS I or Unlocker FPS of DS I PLEASE!!

  • ChatWraithShichi

    Allow me to explain this phenomenon:

  • ChatWraithShichi
  • Talkkgammer

    People will buy anything as long as it’s cheap on steam for $2.99. I myself have tons of games that I haven’t even touched yet which came with bundles. Looks like to me Units sold is purely inflated in this case.

    • datdude

      Don’t talk sense here…the trolls don’t understand it and won’t like it.

  • juanme555

    If 40% is pc sales, and the game came for 3 platforms (pc-xbox and playstation) wouldnt that mean that pc sold more than each console version? if so, why would they keep treating pc version with less importance, capping game at 30 and 60fps, downgrading graphics, making bad clunky M&K controls .-. wtf.