Achieved through only three games (because let’s not forget the contribution, even minor, of the vertiginous Call of the Mountain), this figure of 32.7 million games sold dates very exactly from April 16, 2023. On this date, Horizon Forbidden West, for which no official data was yet available, had reached 8.4 million sales, which puts him on a faster trajectory than Horizon Zero Dawn (which was credited with 7.6 million sales over a similar duration). A quick calculation determines that Horizon Zero Dawn now has some 24 million sales across the PS4 and PC.
Note that all of these figures correspond to games sold to consumers (sell through) as opposed to figures for distribution to resellers (sell in). They also don’t take into account the millions of additional copies of Horizon Zero Dawn downloaded by PlayStation Plus subscribers or even picked up for free as part of the Days of Play offer.
Guerrilla’s stunt
The success of the Horizon franchise naturally propelled Guerrilla Games into another dimension, as illustrated by the video retrospective published by the studio for its 20th anniversary. She also recalls how Aloy’s character quickly became one of the most exposed in the PlayStation Studios family, with appearances in Monster Hunter World, Fortnite, Fall Guys or even Genshin Impact as a character in her own right. without forgetting the collaboration with LEGO.
In addition to becoming one of the most important PlayStation studios and raising its leaders in the hierarchy, Guerrilla Games has benefited others, starting with Kojima Productions, which relied on the Decima home engine for its franchise. Death Stranding.
Besides the inevitable successor to Horizon Forbidden West currently in development, Guerrilla Games is more unofficially working on a multiplayer game taking place in the universe of the saga. Adding to this the Netflix series adaptation and the rumored Horizon Zero Dawn remake, the Guerrilla Games teams are undoubtedly holding their roadmap for quite a few years to come.