Black Myth: Wukong sales have apparently reached a staggering 18 million, and there's also a DLC expansion in the works for the game, according to a new report.
Per Bloomberg, the game managed to reach 18 million sales "in two weeks", although it's not clear whether that's a firm milestone or whether the two or three extra days since Wukong's release count towards that tally.
Bloomberg's piece takes the form of an interview with investor Daniel Wu, who's one of Wukong developer GameScience's biggest investors (along with his company Hero Games). It's Wu that confirms the existence of an expansion, although he doesn't say what it'll be or when it'll launch.
Given that Wukong hit ten million sales just three days after its launch, that means it's picked up another eight million in the intervening weeks, which constitutes a pretty steady performance. No wonder it helped Steam to cross a user milestone a week or so after its release.
The Bloomberg article also states that Black Myth: Wukong's budget was around $70 million, a large chunk of which Wu himself apparently contributed. By way of comparison, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, a game that had sold around 10 million copies at last count, reportedly...
