Tales of Arise has been a hit for Bandai Namco. The largely fantastic action RPG, which released for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 in September of last year, has now topped 2 million copies sold. That's an impressive return in the current market — a figure that makes it one of the most successful Japanese-developed RPGs of the last decade or so.
It also means that Tales of Arise has sold a solid 500,000 units since its previous sales update in October 2021. Before that, Bandai Namco had confirmed that the game had hit 1 million copies within a week of its launch, immediately making it the fastest selling Tales title ever.
However, despite its clear commercial success, there are no plans to expand on Tales of Arise with a sequel or story DLC. The developer has stated that it wants to move on to something new.
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2021 goty.
That's always my comment on every article about this game.
It's a very nice game so I'm not in the least bit surprised.
It's depressing great games like these only sell 2 million when trash like CoD sells that in a few hours. I miss the Ps1-Ps2 days.
Well deserved. This game is amazing!!
Fantastic news... LOVED it. One of my favorite game from last year.
And one of the times playing on PS5 felt like playing on my PC. Looked and played fantastic 😍
Gameplay and Graphics - no reason not to expect both. And they delivered.
Even though it's a bit on the short side, and it's missing couch co-op, this is the best Tales game to come out in a decade. I wouldn't mind at all if an expanded version is released one day.
86% of 2 million is 1.72 million playstation. Nice sales number
Am I the only one who wasn't so hot on this game? The story was meh, all the characters were boring (-hootle) and the combat was so unbalanced, I literally had to set the game to the easiest difficulty because every enemy was a massive bullet sponge, yet even on that they still took forever to kill. I've never quit a game 60 hours in still waiting for it to be good. I think the tales series just isn't for me, only other one I played was Berseria, which I beat but only for the skits and story in that one, gameplay was a chore. Guess nothing holds a T to the Ys series in terms of gameplay in the Action RPG Genre, I do enjoy the combat in the Nier and recent FF games aswell just seems like I absolutely hate bullet spongey enemies period when there is no reason for them to be in the game aside from padding out a games artificial length (which I hate).
Even so, I'm happy for the people who enjoyed this game and the greater success the series has now received
The first Tales game I 'got'. Loved the characters, combat was engaging, game looked beautiful and the game never became dull. It is very anime but I liked it even more than FF7R, which is saying something. Stunning game and hoping the sales continue to grow.
Haven't played this yet, but it's nice to see so many JRPG series doing well these days.
Was a fantastic game and in my top 3 games of last year. Well earned, albeit I do wish the endgame addressed more of the tension built up in the early game on the social issues and cycle of revenge that’d inevitably be a problem after credits rolled, but I understand the desire for a straightforward ending.
Finishing up Tales of Vesperia now - stopped 2 weeks ago when I got covid and I was in the middle of that never ending series of hallways near the end w/ no idea where to go next - looking forward to playing this 1 next. 👍
@gorosbat no you are not alone.
This was the biggest let down of 2021 for me.
It is so average it hurts.
Congrats! Hope they decide to do more.
Congrats! Still waiting for the game to drop down to $20 New though, maybe this Black Friday/Christmas?
why won't they put this on Switch?
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