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BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Ueda Minami) is pleased to announce that Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO, the latest home video game in the Dragon Ball Z Sparking! series, released on Thursday, October 10, 2024 (STEAM® version Friday, October 11, 2024), has surpassed 3 million copies sold worldwide (※ 1) within 24 hours of its release.

「ドラゴンボールZ Sparking!」シリーズ最新作『ドラゴンボール Sparking! ZERO』発売24時間で世界累計販売本数300万本を突破

株式会社バンダイナムコエンターテインメントのプレスリリース（2024年10月15日 18時01分）「ドラゴンボールZ Sparking!」シリーズ最新作『ドラゴンボール Sparking! ZERO』発売24時間で世界累計販売本数300万本を突破

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[Doggyred]

Japan is killing it this generation, what a comeback.

 

[daclynk]

 

[ManaByte]

And someone in the OT was questioning if DBZ was popular.

 

[Ronin_7]

That's insane

 

[pulicat]

This is what happened when you granted what fans wanted for your game.

3 million units in the first day and likely to pass 5 million units mark in a week.

 

[spartan30gr]

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

Japan is killing it this generation, what a comeback.

Seems like when you give players what they want, people buy your products. Who would guess?

 

[TintoConCasera]

Game seems pretty cool based on what little I've played, so good for them.

 

[STARSBarry]

And someone in the OT was questioning if DBZ was popular.

 

[Represent.]

*sheds multiple tears*

*gets ass kicked at first Vegeta fight*

 

[pulicat]

And someone in the OT was questioning if DBZ was popular.

More popular than Starwars for sure.

 

[PatientGamer]

I mean the community's been waiting 17 fooking years for this game.

Dragon Ball as a franchise appears to be in the strongest position ever. 7 years since Super ended, a new anime started last week and this game that includes almost everybody in the entire franchise...

Give people what they want and they will pay for it. Something Western devs have been struggling to understand this generation.

 

[Codes 208]

 

[GinSama]

Best time to release the game together with Daima
And the revival of the Tenkaichi gameplay.

Btw please see Daima, first episode was fire !!!

 

[BlackTron]

Give people what they want and they will pay for it. Something Western devs have been struggling to understand this generation.

Still trying to perfect the science of getting people to spend cash on the bare minimum, or things they didn't want that the devs pushed instead. One day, MTX, aging core gamers and past reputation/goodwill won't be enough to sustain the science experiment anymore.

 

[Kazdane]

I keep reading great things about this, but on the other hand I haven't been into fighting games in decades. At the same time, one of the games I had the most fun with, back when I was a teenager, was DBZ Budokai...

 

[Roman Empire]

We so back! They did an amazing job at recapturing the old Tenkaichi gameplay feel and added new stuff like the Z-counters and perception to mix things up. At high levels of play this game is totally different beast.

 

[Fake]

Thanks to Akira.

 

[//DEVIL//]

heh. another game to add to the " games with amazing sales and everyone love but not for me"

I like Dragon Ball FighterZ way more than this.

 

[Codes 208]

Best time to release the game together with Daima
And the revival of the Tenkaichi gameplay.

Btw please see Daima, first episode was fire !!!

It was ok. 30 minutes of mostly exposition and catching up after the buu saga. Didnt exactly set my world on fire but credit where its due its still a better prologue episode than we got with super or gt

I would absolutely kill for them to make a remake of Z with the new art style.

 

[Ridicululzz]

Well deserved, this game is exactly what the series needed for a revival. Wish the online 1v1 matches were a bit more diverse in terms of characters though

But I guess the DP team battles is where the real diversity is at.

 

[Codes 208]

Well deserved, this game is exactly what the series needed for a revival. Wish the online 1v1 matches were a bit more diverse in terms of characters though

But I guess the DP team battles is where the real diversity is at.

I feel like it was a given most people were gonna main the most op characters possible like whis, ssj4 gogeta, MUI goku, bean daddy and strangely enough Mr. satan

Meanwhile SSJ Mid Goku is my main because Angry Kamehameha is just so goddamn cool

 

[Lokaum D+]

Now patch Vegeta Super arc into the game, even Gohan has one ffs

 

[Icymanipulator]

Jesus, imagine the numbers Xenoverse 3 will do…

 

[XXL]

 

[proandrad]

We need some super manga dlc. Having some of the events play out how they did in the manga as a sparking episode would have been fire.

 

[Saber]

Praise Akira and it's creation. We brazillians still love DB after all these years.

 

[Roman Empire]

Well deserved, this game is exactly what the series needed for a revival. Wish the online 1v1 matches were a bit more diverse in terms of characters though

But I guess the DP team battles is where the real diversity is at.

Tired of seeing Vegito, Gogeta, Kefla everywhere.

 

[Codes 208]

Tired of seeing Vegito, Gogeta, Kefla everywhere.

Continue the course of using more niche characters

Establish dominance, show ‘em whos boss

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Imagine people who love games and the franchise making a game which is by the fans and for the fans, Japan out here selling big unit counts

Meanwhile Western devs all hate games and the franchise and make games which are by political activists made for nonexistent modern audiences and are shocked when they bomb

 

[NecrosaroIII]

I love Sparking Zero, it's pretty great. But the AI is all over the place. It's tough to get up close and battle it out, but also the further you get from them the dumber they get so you just end up beam spamming.

 

[ManaByte]

Establish dominance, show ‘em whos boss

 

[Codes 208]

I love Sparking Zero, it's pretty great. But the AI is all over the place. It's tough to get up close and battle it out, but also the further you get from them the dumber they get so you just end up beam spamming.

Im convinced the ai is designed to counter melee spammers.

And frankly its working, I actually know how to play the game after getting my ass kicked over and over again in the first 10 hours

 

[Porcile]

The number of Dragon Ball Z games about to be greenlit at Bandai.

 

[proandrad]

We got got Goku Black and blue haired Goku. Dragon ball showing how to do diversity in games.

 

[Doom85]

heh. another game to add to the " games with amazing sales and everyone love but not for me"

I like Dragon Ball FighterZ way more than this.

Yeah, it’s depressing for me. I really want anime adaptations into video games to diversify beyond arena brawlers. FighterZ was a breath of fresh air (also proper fighting games are just way more interesting mechanically than arena brawlers), and while I haven’t gotten around to it yet One Piece getting a full RPG was nice. But sales like this are probably just going to convince them to keep going back to the exhausted arena brawler well. Cool for some people, I guess, but I’m tired of them.

 

[//DEVIL//]

Yeah, it’s depressing for me. I really want anime adaptations into video games to diversify beyond arena brawlers. FighterZ was a breath of fresh air (also proper fighting games are just way more interesting mechanically than arena brawlers), and while I haven’t gotten around to it yet One Piece getting a full RPG was nice. But sales like this are probably just going to convince them to keep going back to the exhausted arena brawler well. Cool for some people, I guess, but I’m tired of them.

Yeah I feel the same. because I was hoping the next Dragon Ball Fighting game is FighterZ 2?

I do not think ill see that happening any time soon. hope I am wrong. but for now Fighter Z is my favorite dragon ball fighting game of all time for me.

 

[adamsapple]

Zero interest in anything DBZ but this is really good for the devs and fans.

 

[Danjin44]

I wish one day One Piece gets good game like this......(since I'm bigger One Piece fan)

 

[Deerock71]

 

[Pelao]

Everyone I know irl who has a PS5 or capable PC bought this game.
Dragon Ball is still the king.

 

[lh032]

will i enjoy the game if i just play offline solo?

Hows the VS CPU AI? (if there is any vs cpu mode)

 

[semiconscious]

as cyndi lauper might say: 'gamers just wanna have fun'...

 

[Pop]

 

[Codes 208]

will i enjoy the game if i just play offline solo?

Hows the VS CPU AI? (if there is any vs cpu mode)

Ive already put 35+ hours into the campaign which is offline.

And theres offline bot battles and tournament modes too.

Online play is only a fraction of what you can do in this game

 

[lh032]

Ive already put 35+ hours into the campaign which is offline.

And theres offline bot battles and tournament modes too.

Online play is only a fraction of what you can do in this game

is the vs AI challenging enough compared to previous tenkaichi games? ( assuming you played it)
Tenkaichi hardest AI is too easy for me.

 

[PatientGamer]

I love Sparking Zero, it's pretty great. But the AI is all over the place. It's tough to get up close and battle it out, but also the further you get from them the dumber they get so you just end up beam spamming.

The AI is the perfect sparring partner tbh. I lost my first 3 or 4 matches on Super CPU difficulty, but then naturally got better at the game and now I can stomp them in most matches without relying on beam spams. Defense & countering is the best approach.

 

[Just_one]

The game is amazing

hope they release a vegeta and trunks arc , if u have a jiren arc these 2 missing is just dumb, specially vegeta which is the best character in the franchise.

 

[lordrand11]

This makes me happy!