Black Myth: Wukong Sells 20 Million Copies Before It Even Comes To Xbox

Well and truly in the black

by Ben Kerry Yesterday, 6:30pm

Black Myth: Wukong has been a heck of a story so far, hasn't it? We've had conflicted reports about the reasoning behind the game's Xbox delay, followed by a super impressive launch where the title exploded in popularity. Having said all that, we didn't know it had been this popular...

Coming out of Tokyo Game Show this week, we're seeing that the Chinese action game has sold 20 million copies in a month. Yes, 20 million copies across two platforms for a brand-new IP - that just seems nuts to us.

As we already alluded to up above, the Xbox version of Black Myth: Wukong has been a walking controversy for months now. We played a PC build back in the summer — writing up a glowing review of our time with the game — but developer Game Science put the Xbox version on hold indefinitely.

While we're still waiting for that Xbox launch date, feel free to check out our PC preview down below for some initial PX thoughts on an early build of Black Myth: Wukong. Hopefully, we get that Xbox date soon, but it sounds like the game has been doing mighty fine with just PS5 and PC as its launch platforms.

Can you believe this game has shifted that many copies? Tell us what you think of this down below.

Ben is a News Writer at Pure Xbox, and is a fan of action, racing and straight-up shootin' in any Xbox game he can get his hands on. When he's not clutching an Xbox controller like his life depends on it, Ben spends his time listening to music that's far too old for him, watching football on the telly and probably eating somewhere.

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HonestHick
Yesterday, 6:33pm

Of those 20 million over 85-90% of the sales were on PC i would suspect. It’s not like it’s a run away success on PS5. I don’t know the new numbers but when the game was at 10 million it was reported only 1.5 was on PS5, and 8.5 million was on PC. As in that region PC is way more popular.

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KvallyX
Yesterday, 6:34pm

Yes, this is more of a China/PC success story.

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GamingFan4Lyf
Yesterday, 6:41pm

It's a good game.

I am off and on playing it. For me, I have to be in the right mood for this game. It's not that's necessarily hard, it's just that I sometimes don't want to fight multiple bosses in such a short amount of time during my gaming time.

There are just so many games at my fingertips on PC at the moment that I am all over the place with my playing habits - some are new to me, some I have played before on console but now seeing through an entirely different lens on PC (e.g. Alan Wake 2, Ghostwire: Tokyo, Lords of the Fallen, etc.), others are just stone-cold classics from my Steam library that have been sitting dormant for the last 12 years when I got off my PC (e.g. Half-Life 2, Portal - but now with RTX, Batman Arkham Asylum, etc.).

I really need to dial it in at some point or I will never finish anything!

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Fenbops
Yesterday, 6:59pm

@HonestHick it sold 10 million after only 3 days, so even if it was only 1.5 on PS5 that’s still not bad at all.

This isn’t just a China and PC success story:

‘According to PlayStation, Black Myth: Wukong was the most-downloaded PlayStation Store game for August 2024 in North America, Japan, and Europe, beating the likes of Madden NFL 25, which is incredible for a brand-new IP. If its sales continue to be this strong, Black Myth: Wukong could very well become the best-selling new video game of 2024’

It’s also selling well world wide. With zero sales on Xbox, that’s got to sting a bit at HQ.

Personally I’ve not picked it up. Performance on PS5 isn’t where I’d like it to be.

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Divide_and_Wander
Yesterday, 7:02pm

I was kind of expecting to see some sort of update at TGS for the xbox version, but that looks like a no. I'll have to see how it runs on the ROG Ally X, as that's another option for me if I really wanted to play it.

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AlwaysPlaying
Yesterday, 7:18pm

Didn’t the developers say that Xbox wasn’t a priority and with PC sales like that …. Xbox is not a priority…. So unfortunately it may tell other developers to prioritize Xbox last which has been every Xbox owner worst fear that it is already happening… so I find no joy with this…..also there may have been a shady agreement but still…

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NEStalgia
Yesterday, 7:19pm

Yeah, as others have said, for those that don't know, the runaway sales success is almost entirely in China alone, and there, nearly entirely on PC. The game is sort of a cultural touch point in China, based on one of their most famous classical literary works that's deeply tied into the culture, plus a big AAA Nvidia sponsored game from a Chinese studio and it turned into a viral success instantly.

Doesn't mean it's a bad game, but it's extreme success looks different in context than at a glance. It's not really because the game became the biggest thing ever, it's explicitly a China thing and is a game that sells averagely decent elsewhere as well.

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Titntin
Yesterday, 7:45pm

Fantastic game. A goty contender for me... even though my old man reflexes struggle with it and its not without its flaws. Whilst theres no doubt its been a huge success on PC, its also sold well on ps5 with best estimates being about 3.5 million. Not bad for a new IP and still early in its shelf life.
I hope it comes to xbox soon, everyone deserves a chance to enjoy it.

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StylesT
Yesterday, 8:15pm

Didn't bother getting it on playstation...doubt il ever play it now...to many games to play...and didn't have the must play kind of reviews to make me jump in

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Romans12
Yesterday, 8:18pm

@HonestHick Yep, thinking the same thing. Huge % on PC.

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Kieduss
Yesterday, 9:14pm

No Xbox version? No ***** given.

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GeeForce
Yesterday, 9:23pm

@AlwaysPlaying
Agree that Xbox is not currently the priority for developers but the potential of 30 million plus customers would surely be something that can't be ignored by them.

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MsJubilee
Yesterday, 9:24pm

Okay? This game isn't coming to Xbox, so I don't know why you folks keep making articles on it.

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Bigmanfan
Yesterday, 9:30pm

The Internet is really trying to guilt trip me into finishing this game it feels like.

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PsBoxSwitchOwner
Yesterday, 10:05pm

@GeeForce it’s not going to be 30million customers. In reality it’s far lower. And that’s not a dig at Xbox or anything.

Once you take away all the people that have the ability to play it elsewhere (ps/pc wherever), people who own multiple Xbox. Then all the people not interested.

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PsBoxSwitchOwner
Yesterday, 10:06pm

@MsJubilee because if you look at most articles, the only thing that garners comments are ones that tend to say ‘we don’t have’ or some sort of console war stuff.