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Horizon Zero Dawn sells 2.6 million copies in first two weeks

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Sony said that its consumers have bought more than 2.6 million copies of its PlayStation 4 exclusive Horizon Zero Dawn in its February 28 release two weeks ago.

The open-world adventure from Guerrilla Games received a high 89 out of 100 score on Metacritic, which aggregated the average scores of 106 media reviews. (Here’s GamesBeat’s review). The sales make Horizon Zero Dawn the best-selling new first party intellectual property launch on the PS4 to date and Guerrilla’s biggest debut ever.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.