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Dark Souls series global sales top 8M

Dark Souls has outsold its sequel to push the series to a significant milestone.

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Dark Souls has sold over 5 million copies globally.

The figure comes via Famitsu, reporting on a From Software presentation. Judging by an image of a slide, we can see that vanilla Dark Souls shifted over 2.4 copies globally, while a rebundle packaged with DLC did even better, with 2.6 million copies sold.

Dark Souls 2 has managed 1.9 million so far, while the Scholar of the First Sin package has shifted 530,000 for a total of 2.4 million combined.

According to SteamSpy data (good thinking, NeoGAF) the three Dark Souls SKUs on PC have managed over 3.1 million sales - a pretty decent percentage of the total and well worth Namco Bandai's investment.

All in all this is a terrific performance form a "niche" genre - as we expected, given the announcement of Dark Souls 3.

And to think it all started when Namco Bandai brought Demon's Souls to Europe after Sony dropped the ball, leaving Atlus to get a localisation up and running. The relationship between From Sotware and Namco Bandai has really flourished as a result - although the existence of Bloodborne shows Sony made up with its pal.

Thanks, MCV Pacific.

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Based in Australia and having come from a lengthy career in the Aussie games media, Brenna worked as VG247's remote Deputy Editor for several years, covering news and events from the other side of the planet to the rest of the team. After leaving VG247, Brenna retired from games media and crossed over to development, working as a writer on several video games.

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