After spending the past 15 years working on a variety of Souls and Souls-adjacent titles, FromSoftware finally returned to the Armored Core franchise, releasing Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon in late August of this year. Already, the game has proven to be a sales success, nearing 3 million copies in less than 2 months.

As revealed by the Japanese voice actor for Pater (Ryo Shimokawa) during a livestream playthrough of the game, the recently-released Armored Core VI has been an immediate sales success, with them saying (as translated bv ResetEra user ‘Orzkare’): “Armored Core 6 has sold 2.8 million copies worldwide.”

While a far cry from the overwhelming success seen with FromSoftware’s previous title (Elden Ring) which surpassed 13.4 million copies in just one month, Armored Core VI represents a return to a long-dormant franchise which even at its peak remained a relatively niche affair.

Conversely, Elden Ring served as the culmination of FromSoftware’s past decade of work, taking elements from all of their previous Souls games and packaging it into a seamless open world.

Though it is unlikely that Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon will ever reach Elden Ring numbers, it marks an excellent return to a series which we have not seen in over a decade – and before FromSoftware became the industry juggernaut that they now are.

With such encouraging early sales, it will be interesting to see what the studio works on next, and whether more Armored Core is in the works.

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