{"id":15260,"date":"2011-11-02T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"dark-souls-1-5-million-copies-shipped-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/15260-dark-souls-1-5-million-copies-shipped-worldwide","title":{"rendered":"Dark Souls: 1.5 million copies shipped worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Publisher <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19944-Namco-Bandai\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Company Information\">Namco Bandai<\/a> has revealed that it has shipped around the world 1.5 million copies of its dark-fantasy action-RPG Dark Souls.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t mean that all those copies have been sold, just that they have been shipped to retail.<\/p>\n<p>North America took 620,000 of those copies, while 470,000 of them are in Europe and 370,000 in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The game was only released on <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19888-Playstation-3-%28PS3%29\" target=\"_self\" title=\"System Information\">PS3<\/a> in Japan and published by From Software, while an <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19882-Xbox-360\" target=\"_self\" title=\"System Information\">Xbox 360<\/a> version was shipped globally alongside the PS3 version and published by Namco Bandai.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dark_Souls_screenshot_4_992738154.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"340\" height=\"191\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dark Souls received critical acclaim, sliding to a Metacritic score of 89\/100, and receiving near perfect scores from the likes of Eurogamer, Gamespot, 1UP and Joystiq.<\/p>\n<p>Even the ever-difficult-to-please Edge Magazine loved the game, saying: &#8220;Dark Souls beckons the masochistic with its chilly indifference. If you steel your nerves and persevere, the loot you&#8217;ll uncover is an adventure so exquisitely morose and far-ranging that it will tug at your mind insistently during the hours you spend apart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Still not convinced? Check out MyGaming&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/14860-Dark-Souls-review-Xbox-360.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Dark Souls review\">Dark Souls review<\/a>. Dark Souls is currently available at local retail on PS3 and Xbox 360.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dark_Souls_screenshot_22_855936276.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Source: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2011-11-02-dark-souls-worldwide-sales-1-5-million-shipped\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Eurogamer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19870-Dark-Souls-1.5-million-copies-for-action-RPG-gamers-worldwide\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Dark Souls: 1.5 million copies shipped worldwide\"><strong>Dark Souls: 1.5 million copies shipped worldwide<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brutally difficult Dark Souls is stirring up a demand at retail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}