A new NPD Institute report has just placed Elden Ring ahead of Call of Duty Vanguard among the best -selling games in the last twelve months of the year . It is still a small event for the “logical continuation” of the Dark Souls series and an absolutely monstrous record for a new franchise of this type. Who will stop the from from Software? Everything indicates that it will be the queen of sales until 2023.

• Elden Ring sells more than COD in the US. UU.
• A 2021 disappointing call

Elden Ring sells more than COD in the US. UU.

Honestly, who would have thought that possible 6 months ago? * The spiritual successor of a famous “difficult” or “impossible” series that normally only reaches an informed audience, is now doing better in chats than one of the most “mainstream” series in the history of this medium. * That is crazy and great news, because it means that the efforts of From Software have been worth it and there is room for players to experience more radical and interesting experiences (sorry, COD fans) than the photocopied shooting games year After year.

A 2021 disappointing call

So, Elden Ring’s sales figures are very impressive and the fact that those of a Call of Duty franchise delivery are even more. However, It must be taken into account that the Acivision series is in serious decline and vanguard is one of the least sold of the series . The game sold less than Modern Warfare or Black Ops: Cold War, relegating it to one of the worst records in sales throughout the franchise for a long time.

According to Activision, this loss of interest is due in particular to the context of World War II of this work, an obsolete topic that apparently did not find his audience. On the player’s side, it is not the same: Vanguard is simply a disappointing game that does not meet the quality standards of the best episodes of the series, either in a single player or in multiplayer.