Nioh Has Sold Three Million Copies On Its Third Anniversary

Team Ninja’s action role-playing samurai soulslike Nioh has exceeded three million units in digital and physical sales (via Gematsu).

Team Ninja will release Nioh 2 next month, but the question of its next game is being posed, and it seems the developer would like to focus on the future of gaming. “I believe that a new console will bring new opportunities and we would like to create a new game, a new intellectual property for PlayStation 5,” said president Yosuke Hayashi to Eurogamer Portugal. “We created the Nioh series for PS4 and we would like to do the same for PS5.” Whether that new game would be a new Ninja Gaiden game remains to be seen, but a handful of Nioh 2 developers would like to return to Ryu Hayabasa. 

This time twelve months ago, Nioh had surpassed two and a half million copies sold worldwide, so the game has been ticking along satisfactorily. Nioh 2 also has goodies for those who played Nioh, and its story “will nicely link up to the beginning of Nioh 1,” according to producer Yosuke Hayashi. The new protagonist is half-human, half-Yokai hybrid who roams the country as a mercenary, so it’s likely that the protagonists of both games will cross paths. Moreover, Nioh 2 has an asynchronous multiplayer mode that makes other Nioh 2 players appear as helpful NPCs that will join in the fray. 

【『仁王』全世界累計300万本達成】 本日3周年を迎えた『仁王』、全世界での累計出荷本数が 300万本を突破しました。 楽しんでいただいた皆さま、本当にありがとうございます。 続編『仁王２』は来月3月12日発売。 再び最高の「戦国死にゲー」をお届けします。https://t.co/Jo9egQMBwr#仁王 #仁王２ pic.twitter.com/xkrrex1j0a

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Nioh 2 will launch for PlayStation 4 on March 13.