After spending the previous 15 years engaged on a wide range of Souls and Souls-adjacent titles, FromSoftware lastly returned to the Armored Core franchise, releasing Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon in late August of this yr. Already, the sport has confirmed to be a gross sales success, nearing 3 million copies in lower than 2 months.
As revealed by the Japanese voice actor for Pater (Ryo Shimokawa) throughout a livestream playthrough of the sport, the recently-released Armored Core VI has been a direct gross sales success, with them saying (as translated bv ResetEra consumer ‘Orzkare’): “Armored Core 6 has bought 2.8 million copies worldwide.”
While a far cry from the overwhelming success seen with FromSoftware’s earlier title (Elden Ring) which surpassed 13.4 million copies in only one month, Armored Core VI represents a return to a long-dormant franchise which even at its peak remained a comparatively area of interest affair.
Conversely, Elden Ring served because the fruits of FromSoftware’s previous decade of labor, taking parts from all of their earlier Souls video games and packaging it right into a seamless open world.
Though it’s unlikely that Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon will ever attain Elden Ring numbers, it marks a wonderful return to a sequence which we now have not seen in over a decade – and earlier than FromSoftware grew to become the business juggernaut that they now are.
With such encouraging early gross sales, will probably be fascinating to see what the studio works on subsequent, and whether or not extra Armored Core is within the works.
KitGuru says: What do you consider Armored Core VI? Would you wish to see an Armored Core 7? Could the sequence ever develop into as large as Souls? Let us know your ideas down under.
