Bandai Namco’s Ace Fight 8 has bought a couple of million copies after little over every week on sale.
That marks Ace Fight 8: Wings of Theve because the fastest-selling recreation within the collection, and the second-best-reviewed recreation within the collection in response to evaluation aggregates, being narrowly overwhelmed by Ace Fight 4: Shattered Skies.
The sport at the moment sits at a “Typically Favorable” rating of 87 on Metacritic.
“Ace Fight 8 has surpassed 1 million copies worldwide sooner than every other title within the collection,” reads a submit on the Bandai Namco social accounts. “Thanks to all of the ace pilots around the globe in your assist in reaching record-breaking heights!”
That’s not due to an absence of competitors, in response to model director Kazutoki Kono, who spoke with VGC earlier in 2026.
“Trying on the present market as of 2026, should you forged your eyes to not solely mainstream however unbiased sectors as effectively, there are extra video games within the flight shooter style than individuals might imagine,” he informed VGC.
“However what Ace Fight has, and the others don’t, is the collected capital that has been acquired during the last 30 years, whether or not or not it’s storytelling or the data and the depth and breadth of plane accessible — that is one thing that could be very arduous to duplicate.
“Moreover, once you have a look at different flight shooter genres, a number of them simply have you ever fly after which go into dogfights. Whereas for the Ace Fight franchise, it’s a hero-making expertise that the participant will go on to by overcoming challenges to in the end turn into the ace pilot. So there’s this very clear intention that actually makes it utterly totally different for the gamers.”
Ace Fight 8: Wings of Theve is out there now on PC, PS5, and Xbox Sequence X/S.
