{"id":371088,"date":"2026-06-26T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=371088"},"modified":"2026-06-26T07:56:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:56:03","slug":"crimson-desert-tops-6-million-sales-pearl-abyss-says-updates-give-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/crimson-desert-tops-6-million-sales-pearl-abyss-says-updates-give-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Crimson Desert tops 6 million sales: Pearl Abyss says updates give back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pearl Abyss says its new IP, Crimson Desert<\/a>, has now sold more than 6 million copies<\/strong> since launching on March 19. That also confirms another milestone the company had pointed to earlier: the game cleared 5 million copies in its first month.<\/p>\n

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Will Powers, Pearl Abyss\u2019s PR and marketing director, said a brand-new IP reaching 5 million<\/strong> that fast is something worth celebrating, especially in a year dominated by stories about layoffs and studio shutdowns.<\/p>\n\n

Powers also said the game\u2019s major post-launch patches weren\u2019t designed to \u201csell more\u201d copies. In his words, they were meant to \u201cgive more back to the community.\u201d Those updates have tightened the controls<\/strong>, cleaned up the UI, and added a range of quality-of-life fixes, along with smaller extras such as pet simulation features and even a pinball mini-game.<\/p>\n\n

That context matters. Crimson Desert launched in good shape<\/strong>, but not perfect shape, and it\u2019s sitting at about a 78 on Metacritic. Reviews tended to praise the visuals, the open world, and the combat. The weaker points were the story, the controls, and what some critics saw as system overload. Pearl Abyss says there\u2019s more on the way, including additional free updates, story improvements, cross-save support, and a paid DLC expansion it describes as \u201csubstantively different.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

So if you were holding off until the rough edges got smoothed out, Crimson Desert now looks like a pretty easy recommendation. Pearl Abyss says more than 80% of sales<\/strong> have come from North America and Europe, which makes this a real breakout beyond Black Desert<\/a> and helps explain why expectations are rising for the company\u2019s first annual operating profit in four years.<\/p>\n\n

Crimson Desert is out now, and Pearl Abyss says South Korean officials, including Prime Minister Kim Min-seok, have already praised it as a milestone for K-content<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pearl Abyss says its new IP, Crimson Desert, has now sold more than 6 million copies since launching on March 19. That also confirms another milestone the company had pointed to earlier: the game cleared 5 million copies in its first month. Will Powers, Pearl Abyss\u2019s PR and marketing director, said a brand-new IP reaching … Continue reading “Crimson Desert tops 6 million sales: Pearl Abyss says updates give back”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1009,"featured_media":371087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-371088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371089,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371088\/revisions\/371089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371088"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=371088"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=371088"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=371088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}