After the Chinese domestic game "Black Myth: Wukong" was officially launched at 10 am yesterday (20th), it quickly attracted great attention. Less than 3 hours after it went online, the game's peak number of simultaneous online players reached 1.437 million, surpassing the peaks of "Cyber 2077" and "Elden's Ring" and setting a new record for Steam stand-alone games. By the evening of that day, the game had more than 2.2 million simultaneous online users, breaking the record of "Phantom Parlu" and second only to "PUBG"'s record of 3.257 million people.
The number of players of "Black Myth: Wukong" exceeds 2.2 million
"Black Myth: Wukong" sales may exceed 1.5 billion yuan on first day
According to reports, the sales of "Black Myth: Wukong" on the first day are expected to exceed 1.5 billion yuan. The game has sold more than 3 million units on Steam, and combined with sales on other platforms, the total sales have exceeded 4.5 million units. The sales of the game significantly exceeded the production cost of 400 million yuan.
On the Steam platform, "Black Myth: Wukong" has received more than 96% praise, of which Simplified Chinese reviews account for about 95%, showing that Chinese players are highly satisfied and confident with the game.
Justin Sun gives away games and changes Wukong avatar
Blockchain investor Sun Yuchen took advantage of the popularity of "Black Myth: Wukong" and gave away game redemption codes, which attracted widespread attention. Justin Sun also changed his personal avatar to the image of Wukong, which heated up the Tron ecosystem and aroused admiration on the Internet. Affected by this, the Sun Wukong ($Wukong) token on the TRON chain experienced a surge of nearly 400 times, but then fell back. Currently, the price of the token is reported at US$0.01308, with a market value of US$12.9 million, and the increase within 24 hours is still as high as 14,869%. However, there are also several tokens with the same name that have extremely volatile prices and high investment risks.
$SunWukong surged nearly 400 times
Affected by Brother Sun, Sun Wukong ($Wukong) on the TRON chain experienced a miraculous surge. According to Dexscreener data, Sun Wukong ($Wukong) rose as much as 391 times from the opening price of $0.00008645 to as high as $0.0339 within 3 hours.
It has fallen back before the deadline, and the price is now quoted at US$0.01308. The market value has reached US$12.9 million, still soaring 14,869% in the past 24 hours.
"Black Myth: Wukong" was developed by Chinese game developer "Game Science" using the Unreal Engine 5. Based on "Journey to the West", it created an action role-playing game full of immortals, Buddhas, and monsters. The game's open preload caused Steam's download bandwidth to soar to 70Tbps, breaking the record of "Cyberpunk 2077" at the end of 2020. "Black Myth: Wukong" is hailed as China's first 3A game masterpiece and is highly anticipated. Players will play the role of Sun Wukong in Chinese mythology in the game and fight against monsters.