As part of Sony’s legal assault on Tencent’s rip-off Light of Motiram title, the company’s revealed that Horizon’s franchise sales have topped 38 million units worldwide.
We last got word of the Guerrilla series’ commercial performance in April 2023, when the platform holder confirmed that the franchise had sold through 32.7 million units. This updated number means it’s added another five million units to its tally in the two years since.
In terms of new releases over the past couple of years, the platform holder has ported Horizon Forbidden West to the PC, shipped spin-off LEGO Horizon Adventures, and even deployed Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered.
So, said five million units will be made up of all of the above, as well as residual sales of any existing titles. Pretty impressive stuff.
This would comfortably make Horizon one of PlayStation’s best-selling properties, alongside the likes of Gran Turismo (over 90 million units), God of War (over 66 million units), Marvel’s Spider-Man (over 50 million units), and The Last of Us (over 37 million units).
Sony rarely provides updates to the lifetime sales of its series so many of the above numbers are likely to be outdated by now. Still, at least we have a more recent update for Horizon, huh?
Of course, as alluded above, this number has only emerged as part of a lawsuit, in which Sony has accused Tencent of plagiarising its post-post-apocalyptic outing with survival game copycat Light of Motiram.
The platform holder wants to stop sales of the Chinese developed alternative, and alleges that at one point its rival tried to license the Horizon IP for its own game.