Bandai Namco has announced that Digimon World: Next Order has reached the milestone of one million copies sold. The huge mark comes eight years after the game's original Japanese release on the PlayStation Vita, seven years after its PlayStation 4 worldwide release, and over a year since the Switch and PC ports back in 2023.
Digital Monster Frenzy
Digimon is a multimedia franchise that was created as a virtual pet similar to the Tamagotchi, but with a target audience of young boys. It grew to have multiple anime, games and other complimentary media fleshing out its digital universe and the monsters that live in various virtual spaces.
One of the first outings of the series in the video game realm was Digimon World on the original PlayStation. The game was a raising simulator that made use of some of the virtual pet systems while offering a more involved storyline and world exploration.
In more recent years, the series tried to work out two main production lines for the video games: World and Story. While the Story games focus on a more traditional monster-collecting RPG experience, the World games dig into the monster-raising simulation aspects.
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