The release of Black Myth: Wukong took the whole gaming community by surprise with its booming release into the market, with it already breaking records and getting massive on just its first day of release, with the game selling a whopping 4.7M+ copies in the first 24 hours of its release, and the numbers only keep rising, with the game now accumulating around10M+ copies sold on all platforms.
Not only did the game gain insane sales, but it also broke records for the game with the most concurrent players with a whopping 2.057 Million concurrent players (at the time of this article) and a shocking 2.27M concurrent players on its very first day, breaking all game records on Steam Charts with almost 2x as much players as the game in second place, Counter-Strike 2, and ranking as second highest CCP of all time in all of gaming history, second only to PUBG which peaked at 3.2M CCP.
Not only that, but according to Niko Index (a Chinese streaming tracker), the game managed to break insane viewer records on its release day, surpassing popular titles such as League of Legends and even Valorant for the most watched game on the top 3 Chinese streaming platforms (Huya, DouYu, and Bilibili) with 29 Million viewers across all three platforms on its release day, surpassing even titles like CyberPunk 2077 in 2020.
Why is Black Myth: Wukong seeing so much success?
To those who watched the game trailer and saw the game beforehand, those numbers are no surprise due to how impressive and high-end the graphics and visual effects were. Not only that, but the game also has significant cultural resonance with Chinese gamers, as it is heavily inspired by Chinese mythology, using Sun Wukong, Aka The Monkey King, as its main protagonist, which heavily contributed to its success in China and Asia. Most importantly, as I mentioned before, the game had one of the most impressive game trailers to date, which helped the game accumulate a massive 4M gamers wishlisting the game title on Steam.
Black Myth: Wukong has been performing great so far, and it has shown the incredible prowess of Chinese game developers and will probably even manage to revolutionize most gaming industries. It’s always exciting to see the release of new impressive titles such as Black Myth: Wukong, and even more thrilling to see new game developers in the competition, and we should hopefully be able to see the game earn the title Game of the Year without a doubt.
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