Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero has “received outstanding sales” and Bandai Namco says approximately 90% of that came from fans in Europe and North America.

Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero was a big and long-awaited victory for Bandai Namco at a time when “some games developed overseas had a rocky start.” In new financial reports, the publisher says the newly released fighting game “had outstanding sales,” thanks in large part to overseas fans.

IN presentation which inexplicably reuses the same slide four times, Bandai highlights Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero as a standout success in its entertainment division, echoing Dragon Ball’s “great contribution” to the toy and hobby sector. The game sold 3 million copies within 24 hours of launch. became the largest Dragon Ball launch on Steam ever before its official release..

In separate, Japanese (machine translation) reportBandai adds that approximately 90% of Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero’s total sales came from players in Europe and North America. The company is also touching on different ways to promote the game, focusing on social media in some regions and in-person events in others.

The biggest factor, of course, was the fact that the game is fun. Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero currently has 34,000 user reviews on Steam (91%), and you know you’ve got people hooked if they overcome obscene difficulty peaks with a smile on your face.

This figure is closely reflected in another report collection of total intellectual property sales and intellectual property sales across Japan. Dragon Ball generated sales of 140.6 billion yen this year, but in the Japanese toy and hobby business in particular, intellectual property brought in 23 billion yen during the same period—an unsurprising figure that further illustrates just how global Dragon Ball is on the planet. actually. Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is just the latest example of this in action, but it’s probably also one of the most extreme examples.

The publisher of Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is warning players that they should immediately delete modified custom battles “to avoid being banned.”