Legendary game producer Katsuhiro Harada announced how much the Tekken series has sold so far. The series continues to maintain its success with the latest Tekken 8.
Fighting game series, first released in 1994 Tekken, managed to be engraved in the minds of a generation with many aspects, from its characters to its mechanics. Tekken 8, the last game of the series signed by Bandai Namco, was released in January and was generally appreciated by the players. Producer Katsuhiro Harada His new statement showed that the game had a good impact on the sales of the series.
Participating in the podcast Game Maker’s Notebook, Harada talked about the sales performance of the Tekken series. In this statement, it was stated that the series had sold a total of 55 million copies so far before the last game. Tekken 8, which was released in the past months, was released in three weeks. It sold 2 million copies. This means that the total sales of the Tekken series are exceeded 57 million dollars showed. Since there is no data about Tekken 8 at the moment, we cannot say the exact number, but it would not be wrong to guess that it will increase even more as of April.
More than half of sales came from Europe
Although the statement made by Harada provides us with information about Tekken sales, there is no official statement from Bandai Namco. We do not know whether the company will share this success, but new information shows that Tekken has left an important threshold and continues to be one of the most successful series in the world.
Apart from this, the statement also mentioned which regions had the highest sales. According to Harada, Tekken sales 51%, that is, around 28 million It comes from Europe. 31% of the 17 million population came from the USA. Harada also adds that Tekken 7, released in 2015, has sold more than 11 million copies.
Tekken 8, developed with Unreal Engine 5 and about the aftermath of Heihachi Mishima’s defeat in Tekken 7, is currently available for PC, Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 users. The prices of the game in Türkiye are respectively: $44.99 (1,437 TL – Steam), 1,499 TL (Xbox) and 1,999 TL (PS).
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