![]() Iron Pineapple's got a pretty good guess. The most likely path seems to be a storyline focusing on Miquella, Malenia's sibling, whose presence is heavily felt in Elden Ring but left unexplored. One big expansion, a 2023 Game of the Year edition, and done-onto the next game.Īs for what it'll contain… some of the clues dataminers found in Elden Ring were part of the recent free PvP update, but others pointed to more bosses and legacy dungeons, which is not exactly revelatory. Those smaller expansions, to me, feel like publisher Bandai Namco pushing for what was trendy at the time, but with Elden Ring I think FromSoftware has been able to call all of its own shots. Will FromSoftware pepper 2023 with two or three smallish expansions? Will Elden Ring get a single, big expansion like Artorias, released right around the one year anniversary, perhaps adding a full region to the map? I think that's more likely. There's no obvious pattern to apply to Elden Ring. For Dark Souls 3, publisher Bandai Namco announced a season pass for two DLC packs before the game even came out, though they took a bit longer to arrive than Dark Souls 2's. So what is FromSoftware planning, and when should we expect it? The first Dark Souls' expansion, Artorias of the Abyss, came out 13 months later, while the second game's trio of DLC add-ons were announced only three months after release and started landing soon after. I'd expect Elden Ring to lean towards the absurdly good side, with at least 40% of players snapping up a meaty expansion. That's not how DLC sales usually go, but it's hard to make an informed prediction-sales figures for DLC are all over the place, from just 5% of existing players in some cases to the rare absurdly good sales of Euro Truck Simulator. Elden Ring From For as long as there have been video games, there have been debates about difficulty. ![]() ![]() If every Elden Ring player bought an expansion in 2023, it'd outsell every new game in the world aside from Starfield and Diablo 4, and maybe even beat them. ![]() Final Fantasy 16 will be big, sure, but the best-selling game in the entire series, Final Fantasy 7, has taken about 24 years to sell as many copies as Elden Ring did in less than one. Assassin's Creed Valhalla hit 20 million players after two years, but that doesn't equal sales. The rest of gaming's best-known names coming in 2023 actually aren't Elden Ring big, despite having longer histories. Diablo 4 looks like it's going to nail it, and Diablo 3 sold 12 million copies in its first eight months (and that was in 2012, when there were a lot fewer PC gamers). The latest entry in From Software's long-running mech action series will arrive on August 25, with Kadokawa expecting the release to further expand From Software's fan base.On the PC alone, I expect Starfield to be the most popular new game of 2023, though it could have a close competitor. However, From Software's next game, Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon, does. What exactly Shadow of the Erdtree will entail is still a mystery, as few details have been released and the DLC does not yet have an official release date. As part of a recent financial report, the Kadokawa Corporation (which owns a majority stake of From Software) stated that for the medium to long term it is "pursuing the maximization of profit" by prolonging the life of the Elden Ring IP via DLC releases. Ed joined PCGamesN in 2022, where he is symbiotically connected to the news matrix - especially on Starfield. The developer announced back in February that the game's first DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree, is currently in development. Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree might still be a ways off. Though Elden Ring's sales numbers are slowing down, more content for the open-world RPG is on the way. For even more context, From Software's entire trilogy of Dark Souls games (from which Elden Ring heavily draws upon) has sold around 33 million units combined. Earlier this month it was announced that Horizon Forbidden West, the AAA sequel to Sony's Horizon Zero Dawn, has sold around 8.4 million since its release. For comparison, Kirby And the Forgotten Land, a first-party title from Nintendo that was released in March 2022 and became the best-selling Kirby game of all time, has sold around 5.27 million units. The new sales figure is an impressive feat, especially when compared to other heavy-hitting titles that were released around the same time. Now Playing: Elden Ring DLC Shadow Of The Erdtree Image Revealed | GameSpot News By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's
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