Strong Start for Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero and Metaphor: ReFantazio
Three games from Japan had extremely strong launches last week: Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero, Metaphor: ReFantazio and Silent Hill 2. Meanwhile, Thronefall (GrizzlyGames), Undisputed (Plaion) and Starship Troopers: Extermination (Knights Peak) have left Early Access.
Last week, new games from Japan once again dominated the activity charts, but not only. Spike Chunsoft and Bandai Namco Entertainment had a great start with Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero. On Steam alone, 122,554 concurrent users (CCU) were counted, which is by far the best start for a fighting game on the distribution platform - apart from MultiVersus (free-to-play). Street Fighter 6 reached almost 70,000 concurrent users, Tekken 8 nearly 50,000 and Mortal Kombat 1 around 38,000. Dragon Ball: Sparking! is also by far the strongest CCU game in the Dragon Ball franchise and the third highest CCU game for publisher Bandai Namco, behind Dark Souls III (129,975) and Elden Ring (953,426). Bandai Namco Entertainment has not yet disclosed the performance of Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero on other platforms.