Team Ninja's First Action RPG 'Nioh' Surpasses 2 Million Sales

If anyone is still uncertain about Team Ninja’s ability to develop a good action role-playing game, the fact that two million copies of “Nioh” have already been sold might convince them.

Even though Team Ninja has previously worked on other video game series that were in active development and had sequels released for many years, “Nioh” still brought a huge break for the video game studio, according to ComicBook.

The video game developer put its name on the map with the success of the fighting series “Dead or Alive” and the hack-and-slash game “Ninja Gaiden.” But the release of “Nioh” puts a new spotlight on Team Ninja mostly because this is remarkably their first project under the action RPG genre launched on the PC and console. And selling over 2 million copies of “Nioh” is a testament that Team Ninja did it right in the RPG field.

The news was originally confirmed by Team Ninja through a social media post to thank their fans and gamers who supported “Nioh.”

So far, it is still early for Team Ninja to announce follow-up releases for the “Nioh” franchise. But VentureBeat commented that after selling millions of copies, “Nioh” could be the next series that Team Ninja will continuously develop in the coming years.

Meanwhile, in an earlier DualShockers report, Japanese game publisher Koei Tecmo also recognized that “Nioh” became their most successful game ever to be released in the west. A month after its launch, Koei Tecmo confirmed that over 1 million copies of “Nioh” were either sold or have been shipped.

The fact that the game has been in development since 2004 just adds another reason for the game developer and publisher to celebrate how gamers around the world have positively responded to the release of “Nioh.”

In “Nioh,” people play as an Irish samurai named William living in Japan during the 1600s.

“Nioh” was first released on the PlayStation 4 in February 2017, followed by a PC launch in November of the same year. It has since had three post-launch downloadable content packages, namely “Dragon of the North,” “Defiant Honor,” and “Bloodshed's End.”