China plays a winning move: Developer sells 15.4m copies of game in a week

China’s first big budget game has taken the online world by storm, selling more than 15 million copies in its first week.

It's seen as a major feat for Chinese developers who've struggled to compete with game makers in the US and Japan.

Authorities have been quick to jump on the success as a potential tool to promote China’s soft power.

Al Jazeera’s Laura Westbrook reports from Hong Kong.


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[kuraido]

Just a thing: Western norms are NOT global norms.

[sharia_law]

"Black myth wukong is a security threat to our democracy" US

[Hitori-hg]

Game of the year! I loved the game. I'm not Chinese btw

[TAL]

I heard it is 18 million now. Imagine this, create something that people wanted instead of trying to sell people what you wanted.

[happymelon]

The best thing is, it is free of "political right" "DEI"

[lavalwong]

How dare they flood the market with 15.4m copies in a week. OVERCAPACITY. 😂😂😂

[janglalgoupiak]

Wukong is the game of the century. Looking forward to more games from China and Games Science.

[azataliking]

Stop the Genocide. Palestinians love video games also

[happymelon]

Gamer: this game plays like it was made by someone who was making a game they wanted to play themselves. So many games nowadays play like they’re trying to manipulate you. This one just feels genuine.
One can really feel the heart the developers pour into this Game.

When the producer of the game, Feng Ji, was a still fresh college graduate, he wrote a magazine column "Why Games Fail". He went into quite a bit of details of the Chinese gaming industry at the time, but the main point he had was that developers don't play their own games anymore. To him, a game can only be successful if the guys who made the game in the first place had an unstoppable urge to create something fun, and even after years of working on the game, they are still excited to play it. Seems like this is still the mindset Feng has decades later, with millions of dollars of budget on the line.

[Michael-Ray]

The Western countries better not put tariffs on this game by claiming overcapacity 😅

[redskins]

Greedy Western game developers should take note. Single player games are still very popular. And you shouldnt lock things behind paywalls and make ridiculous dlc.

[zavirz]

Saying “TenCent backed” while they only hold 5% share, while not wrong per se, is misleading. The biggest backer is actually Hero Games with 19% stakes.

[abirhasan]

194 country: this game is legendary
Usa: this is animal abuse

[JackRoopers]

As an Indonesian, Sun Go Kong has been popular in Indonesia's tv show since 2000s

[AmmarMo]

Just know game is 60$ and it’s sold 15 million copies

[MrGanbat]

This is really awesome game I think every people should play once in their lifetime. This game brought new level of the game in history.

[jacobl]

dont rub it in their faces too much, next thing you knoww they gonna put 100% tariff on chinese made video games

[WildDisease]

For comparison, 15M is like Modern Warfare numbers.. way to go China

[xgguo]

It is just a starting point of continuous success, as the China company Game Science and other China game companies have technology, money, talent, and stories from long history of China.

[ktmidol]

Best game of the year so far. Love from UK.