Crimson Desert Clears 5 Million Sales Across PS5, Xbox Series, and PC

Crimson Desert passed 5 million copies sold worldwide by Apr 15, 2026, according to Pearl Abyss via an announcement cited by Gematsu. That puts the open-world action game at the 5 million mark less than four weeks after its Mar 19 launch on PS5, Xbox Series, and PC through Steam and Epic Games Store.

What the new sales checkpoint says

The main signal is the pace. Pearl Abyss had already said Crimson Desert sold 2 million copies in its first day, 3 million by Mar 24, and 4 million by Mar 31. The new 5 million figure means the game added another million copies in roughly two weeks after that Mar 31 milestone. For a premium console-and-PC release, that is enough to keep the game in the industry's high-velocity launch tier rather than the shorter spike-and-fade pattern that often defines first-month sales.

Launch date: Mar 19, 2026

Platforms: PS5, Xbox Series, PC

Latest official sales milestone: 5 million copies worldwide

Previous milestones: 2 million day one, 3 million by Mar 24, 4 million by Mar 31

The update also matters because Crimson Desert's early post-launch conversation was not only about raw sell-through. The game spent its first weeks under the usual microscope for performance, platform support, and patch cadence. A 5 million-sales checkpoint does not erase those questions, but it does show that the commercial side has stayed strong while Pearl Abyss continues to patch and iterate on the release.

There is also a practical reading for platform holders and publishers. When a new multi-platform action game clears 5 million in under a month, it changes the way upcoming roadmap beats are judged. Expansions, platform-specific fixes, content updates, and marketing pushes stop looking like attempts to rescue a launch and start looking like efforts to hold momentum.

The Reddit post that surfaced the milestone treated it as a straight sales story rather than a debate over review discourse, and that is the right emphasis. The fact that matters on Apr 15 is simple: Crimson Desert is still adding buyers at scale after the first-week rush. For Pearl Abyss, that gives the studio a larger installed base to support as it moves into the next patch cycle. For the wider market, it marks Crimson Desert as one of the clearer commercial wins of the current console cycle.