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Geek Culture
30-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Culture
Guerrilla Games' Horizon Franchise Has Sold Over 38 Million Copies Worldwide
PlayStation and Guerrilla Games' Horizon franchise has surpassed 38 million copies sold, a milestone quietly revealed amid the former's ongoing legal dispute with Tencent's upcoming Light of Motiram . This news comes from a line of text tucked away within Sony's recently filed lawsuit against the Chinese technology conglomerate, which reads: 'The Horizon franchise is immensely successful and widely distributed. The Horizon franchise has sold over 38m copies globally. There would be no question that Tencent had access to the Horizon franchise when it created Light of Motiram , even if it had not expressly approached [Sony] with a request to license [its] intellectual property rights in the franchise.' Despite the current circumstances, this milestone is certainly a respectable one, especially considering that there are only two mainline games in the franchise thus far. The series kicked off in 2017 with the debut of Horizon Zero Dawn , which subsequently spawned a sequel, 2022's Horizon Forbidden West , alongside a 2023 VR exclusive title, Horizon Call of the Mountain, and the 2024 kid-friendly spin-off Lego Horizon Adventures . Both mainline titles were extremely well received, and while they were both initially PlayStation console exclusives, they were subsequently released on PC, with the first title also receiving a graphical remaster last year. The games largely centred on protagonist Aloy, an outcast of the primitive Nora tribe who ventures into the post-apocalyptic lands ravaged by mechanical beasts as she uncovers the truth behind her existence and fights to prevent the world from ending once more. With this new milestone, the Horizon franchise is slowly making its mark as one of Sony's best-selling IPs, although it's still nowhere close to its other juggernaut franchise, Santa Monica's God of War , with its 2018 reboot selling over 23 million units by the end of 2022 and its 2022 sequel, God of War Ragnarök , selling 11 million copies within the first three months of its launch, meaning that the rebooted franchise as a whole has to date sold much more than Horizon's current milestone. Kevin is a reformed PC Master Race gamer with a penchant for franchise 'duds' like Darksiders III and Dead Space 3 . He has made it his life-long mission to play every single major game release – lest his wallet dies trying. Guerrilla Games Horizon Horizon Forbidden West Horizon Zero Dawn
Metro
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Horizon Zero Dawn 3 scheduled for 2027 as a cross-gen PS6 game claims rumour
Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered – Aloy will return (Sony Interactive Entertainment) Sony is planning to launch the PS6 with a new Horizon game, as the latest rumours suggest that a Horizon Online spin-off is still on the way. Back in 2022, when Horizon Forbidden West was released on PlayStation 4 and 5, everything seemed to be going perfectly normally for Sony. The PlayStation 5 was selling well, they had lots of new first party games released or announced, and everything appeared primed to continue much in the way the previous generation had. But that was before Sony became obsessed with live service games and suddenly realised, seemingly overnight, that video games were becoming too expensive to make in the normal fashion. Fast forward three years and their first party output has slowed to a crawl and the only new Horizon game to be released has been Lego Horizon Adventures – which was, not unsurprisingly, a flop. Technically, developer Guerrilla Games has already confirmed Horizon 3 will happen, although only in the vaguest sense of stating, in 2023, that they're currently working on 'Aloy's next adventure'. Now a rumour suggests that the third mainline entry is well underway and due for release in the next two years. According to TCMFGames, via Insider Gaming, the game's story will focus on the enemy AI Nemesis (which was teased in the second game, so not much of a revelation) and is 'potentially' a cross-gen title for both PlayStation 5 and 6. Anyone could guess that but whether this particular source has inside knowledge or not it does seem very likely that this is what Sony is aiming for, considering they have not said a word about the series in years. If the date is accurate then it could well be that the game is being positioned as a launch title for the PlayStation 6, which would make perfect sense given the franchise's popularity and reputation for cutting edge visuals. Being cross-gen is also not a surprise, especially as the leap in graphical power is likely to be fairly minimal for the next generation, making it relatively easy to continue support for the PlayStation 5. As for the rumoured multiplayer game, it's never been officially announced but it's been leaked multiple times already and Guerilla Games has been posting job ads for people to work on an unspecified multiplayer title – so there seems little doubt that it did exist at some point. There was some question as to whether it was cancelled during Sony's recent purge of live service titles, but recent indicators are that it was not. Rumours suggest that it's relatively similar to Monster Hunter, which would make sense given all of Horizon's robot animals, and isn't to be confused with talk of an MMO and mobile game. The former was once underway at NCsoft and is believed to be cancelled, the fate of the mobile title is unknown. If Horizon Online, as fans have dubbed it, is going to be out before 2027 you would expect Sony to start talking about it relatively soon, perhaps at its not-E3 summer showcase. If Horizon 3 is closely connected to the PlayStation 6 though, it may be a while longer before we hear about that. Horizon Forbidden West – how much better will the graphics be on PS6? (Sony Interactive Entertainment) Email gamecentral@ leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter, and sign-up to our newsletter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader's Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. Arrow MORE: Nintendo Switch 2 could be being sold at a loss claim analysts Arrow MORE: GTA 4 remaster coming to PS5 this year claims insider Arrow MORE: GTA 6 release date sparks panic as rival companies fear new delay
