Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero Goes Nuclear, Sells Over 3 Million Copies in First 24 Hours
Over 9,000 etc
by Stephen Tailby · Push SquareGame Profile
Title:
Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
System:
PlayStation 5
Also Available For:
Xbox Series X|S
Publisher:
Bandai Namco
Developer:
Spike Chunsoft
Genre:
Fighting
Players:
2
Release Date:
PlayStation 5
11th Oct 2024
11th Oct 2024
Series:
Dragon Ball
Also Known As:
Dragon Ball Budokai Tenkaichi 4
Reviews:
Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero (PS5) - Budokai Tenkaichi Returns as a Stunning, Super-Hype Brawler
Guide:
Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero: How to Unlock All Characters
Official Site:
en.bandainamcoent.eu
Where to buy:
Buy on Amazon
It's official: Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero is a massive hit. Publisher Bandai Namco has announced an early sales figure for the anime brawler, and to say it's off to a good start would be a gross understatement.
In its first 24 hours on the market, the game surpassed a staggering 3 million copies sold.
To put that number into some sort of perspective, the remake of Resident Evil 4 took two days to reach the same milestone. To compare to other fighting games, it took Street Fighter 6 just over half a year to reach 3 million sales. Bandai Namco's own Tekken 8, meanwhile, managed 2 million sales in just under three weeks.
The game's huge success shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. Not only is Dragon Ball an enormously popular manga and anime series, we started to see early signs of Sparking! Zero's potential when it started dominating pre-order charts before launch.
It helps that it's a great game, too; we loved it in our review, calling it an "absolute blast" and an "impressively robust celebration of all things Dragon Ball".
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Are you one of the three million people who bought Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero on day one? Charge up in the comments section below.
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About Stephen Tailby
Stephen has been part of the Push Square team for over six years, bringing boundless enthusiasm and a deep knowledge of video games to his role as Assistant Editor. Having grown up playing every PlayStation console to date, he's developed an eclectic taste, with particular passion for indie games, arcade racers, and puzzlers. He's also our go-to guy for Sonic-related matters, much to his delight/chagrin.
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Meanwhile it took Concord a week to sell 25,000 copies 😂
The winning formula is not difficult. Good game + cool characters = money.
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- get2sammyb
- 11:55am
These numbers are absolutely insane to be honest.
@LifeGirl I wish I could say, “I’m defense of Concord DBZ is a well known and loved IP,” but even Metaphor sold 1 million in a day. Sorry Concord, I’ve got nothing.
@LifeGirl While it does make for an eye-opening comparison, let's just celebrate Dragon Ball racking up really impressive sales without dunking on other games.
It's not really worth the negativity.
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- Keyblade-Dan
- 12:03pm
I've been having an absolute (raging) blast having the Tenkaichi series back this game has reminded me why I loved Dragon Ball so much (I haven't really liked most Dragon Ball stuff since Battle Of God's so started falling out of love a little bit y'know). Blasting music from the OG Tenkaichi and Budokai games whilst playing is just incredible ^__^
Mandatory "If this was Square they would say the game sold bellow expectations" post.
Other than that, congrats to Spike Chunsoft and Bandai Namco for reaching that milestone.
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- Americansamurai1
- 12:19pm
Shows you that dragon ball is still a strong brand.
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- DonkeyFantasy
- 12:26pm
Looking forward to playing this when the price drops a bit because I'm kinda cheap.
@LifeGirl some people will always find something negative to say.
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- PsBoxSwitchOwner
- 12:30pm
Who knew?
A good game releases (that appears not to be in total bad state) and people buy it!
- 11
- DennisReynolds
- 12:47pm
The hype was real. Was basically playing this all weekend.
Thought I'd mention conchord if nobody has already.
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- Toilet_Goat
- 12:52pm
This is actually insane. It looks good, sounds good, plays well (far more technical than I expected) and is oozing with content. I think they also got some goodwill from fans by delivering more characters than they initially promised.
Now, if only I actually got my pre-order code that was never sent...
@PsBoxSwitchOwner @LifeGirl Plenty of good games don’t sell well, look at Deadspace and Rebirth.
And honestly this game has a lot of issues people are overlooking because of the honeymoon period and nostalgia.
@CielloArc FF16 sold 3 million and I don’t even think reached 4 million for an AAA game after a year. Is that really too high expectations?
@Shad361 Yeah, uhm, I gave you a pass earlier because you sometimes have a good point.. But wow, you REALLY have to put a negative twist on EVERYTHING, don't you?
God i'm glad the ignore button exists. Time to use it.
Very great to read this. I absolutely love Dragon Ball (Mostly Z though) and Xenoverse 2 still remains one of my most played games of all time. This game looks a bit too.. difficult to play for me, so i'll hold off for now.. but I'm really glad it's doing this well. Hooray for singleplayer games kicking butt time and time again! Stellar Blade, Black Myth Wukong, Astro Bot and now this.
I wasn't sure earlier.. but 2024 really is a ''stellar'' year for Playstation!
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- Fighting_Game_Loser
- 2:15pm
Honestly this selling so many copies so fast so weird when DBFZ sold 2 million in a week. I just don't see much of the appeal here besides being a Dragon Ball fan with wanting to see Goku and Vegeta punch each other in 3D, because FighterZ sells me so much more when I'm not a Dragon Ball fan, because it wants to be a unique and deep fighter while all of the Budokai games just seem like button mashers. Of course if there are other gameplay appeals to others I'm willing to here, but what's actually on offer just doesn't make sense to me gameplay wise.
@Maubari lol I was actually hyped beyond belief for this game. Graphics look good voice acting is good but almost everything else needed more polishing
Would've been interesting to see Kakarot numbers...
So now lets hope they finally use this money and feedback to FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY make an openworld DBZ action adventure game with the quality of the Arkham games or the new Spider-Man games. FFS how many decades do they need to sit on the potential of this IP
@Fighting_Game_Loser
Budokai games are incredible, lighting fast and circular 3D like the Tekken games.
The Tenkaichi games are like this one. Not my cup of tea either and I won't be getting this one unless it's dirt cheap. And I'm a huge DBZ fan.
I think this is more of a thing of AAA games sucking so hard nowadays with all their terrible writing, characters, pandering, virtue signalling and toxic positivity BS. People are tired and want something fun. This game delivers and all the power to them.
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