elden rings director says he wont be changed by fromsoftwares newfound success from the gamefromsoftware president and elden ring director hidetaka miyazaki was present at the playstation partner awards in japan to collect the grand award for elden ring the award is presented to the bestselling asiandeveloped game and you can see miyazaki collecting the award in the top left image below standing second from the leftcongratulations all the award winners playstationpartnerawards2022japanadia pictwittercomr1yfyb0zq0december 2 2022see moremiyazaki was then interviewed by the japanese publication famitsu shortly after the win and asked about why elden ring has been so successful the director said that while he doesnt know what to say when people ask him that question he can definitively say that elden rings success wont change the way he approaches and makes games in the futureelden ring has been a staggering success for fromsoftware whereas the studios bestselling game before this year was dark souls 3 with 10 million lifetime sales elden ring had sold a massive 166 million copies as of august 2022 roughly six months after the game first launched in february 2022 if elden ring can somehow sell roughly 10 million more units itll have reached the lifetime sales of the entire dark souls seriesgiven that its not hard to see why miyazaki is now being asked whether fromsoftware will change after elden rings success for those whove been playing fromsoftware games for years whether its demons souls sekiro or bloodborne theres no doubt relief that the studio doesnt plan on shaking up its formula now that elden ring has been a worldwide successelsewhere on gamesradar weve published our need for speed unbound review