Oh Boy

Sony Santa Monica’s long-anticipated launch God of Battle Ragnarok lastly hit cabinets final week, and has already smashed all earlier day-one gross sales within the long-running fantasy collection — The truth is, the primary 24 hours of gross sales noticed Ragnarok shift extra copies than its 2018 predecessor achieved in its first week of launch.

“God of Battle Ragnarok will debut at No.1 [in the UK Charts] and is the primary cross-gen title within the collection,” stated Gfk’s Dorian Bloch in feedback made to GamesIndustry.biz. “Day 1 bodily gross sales have been already larger than every other full-week launch gross sales for different titles on this franchise.” Bloch additionally notes that 55% of PS5 {hardware} gross sales this previous week consisted of God of Battle Ragnarok bundles.

Launching on PS4 and PS5 on November 9, God of Battle Ragnarok sees a world-weary Kratos, accompanied by his fast-maturing son Atreus, embark upon one other brutal odyssey throughout Scandinavia, making ready themselves for the approaching of Ragnarok, the foretold occasion that may convey loss of life to Gods and devastation to the land.

Whereas some critics and followers have criticized the brand new sequel for its size and a few irritating “hand-holding” NPC dialogue, Ragnarok has obtained mass reward throughout the board for its spectacular visuals, compelling characters, partaking fight, and operatic strategy to storytelling. Clearly greater than well worth the wait, Kratos and Atreus’ newest head-chopping jaunt is clearly in competition for a lot of critics and gamers’ Sport of the Yr award, and is already set to be one in all 2022’s best-selling releases.

God of Battle Ragnarok is on the market now on PlayStation platforms.