Black Myth: Wukong may just have been the most important PS5 console exclusive of 2024 – and it wasn’t even supposed to be. While some sections of the media still insist Sony signed a secret deal with developer Game Science to exclude the Xbox Series X|S release, there’s never been any evidence to support the hypothesis.

Either way, new comments from co-founder Yang Qi reveal that around 30% of the release’s sales were purchased internationally. Analyst group Niko Partners pegs the total sales at approximately 25 million units, meaning roughly 7.5 million copies were bought outside of China.

That’s a remarkable success.

Even more impressively, Niko Partners’ Director of Research and Insights Daniel Ahmad pegged PS5’s share of the sales at a little over 20%, meaning about five million copies have been sold on Sony’s system alone. That’s truly remarkable.