Helldivers 2 sold 12m as of may 5th 2024, it’s the fastest selling PS First Party game ever.
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Release date of Feb 8th so May 8th would be 3 months.
Just a little bit over 3 months, but the game does need to have a sizable update in late May/June.
4 months is a pretty standard GaaS "season" cadence and they should probably aim to do so as well.
A trailer at the upcoming PS showcase should hopefully be the plan.
Get that marketing money to do some work as a second wind for the game as summer starts.
People don't wanna hear this post Microsoft's PR(ruining it for everyone). But Sony absolutely should be buying arrowhead.
Also I've seen numerous people say tell Sony to take notes on this success, as if they aren't the ones that orchestrated this PC gaas strategy themselves. They've known how essential PC is for gaas games for YEARS now.
Congrats to arrowhead and Sony for making my favorite multiplayer game in two generations.
Also I've seen numerous people say tell Sony to take notes on this success, as if they aren't the ones that orchestrated this PC gaas strategy themselves. They've known how essential PC is for gaas games for YEARS now.
Congrats to arrowhead and Sony for making my favorite multiplayer game in two generations.
Arrowhead is ''stuck'' on HD2 for the upcoming years/prob remainder of PS5. Since Sony owns the IP there is no rush, I can understand the sentiment but they could simply just sign them for another game for PS6 and not have the overhead costs on the books. I would argue it's better for them to stay independent unless they want to get acquired and work on a SOCOM game 
12 million is crazy (Square is punching air somewhere).. All the doubters of Jim Ryan saying he is wrong and live-service will be the end of PS, ironically the first one out the gate; he is right once again.
12 million is crazy (Square is punching air somewhere).. All the doubters of Jim Ryan saying he is wrong and live-service will be the end of PS, ironically the first one out the gate; he is right once again.
They have 2 options. Stick with Sony and keep expanding Helldivers IP, or stay independent, find a new publisher and make a new IP and pray their studio clout grants them familiar success without Sony. Sticking with Sony is a way safer choice, but the other route would make arrowhead even more rich.Arrowhead is ''stuck'' on HD2 for the upcoming years/prob remainder of PS5. Since Sony owns the IP there is no rush, I can understand the sentiment but they could simply just sign them for another game for PS6 and not have the overhead costs on the books. I would argue it's better for them to stay independent unless they want to get acquired and work on a SOCOM game
12 million is crazy (Square is punching air somewhere).. All the doubters of Jim Ryan saying he is wrong and live-service will be the end of PS, ironically the first one out the gate; he is right once again.
Titles that were among the 12 planned games simultaneously on PC and had the live-service department of excellence set up Bungie take a look at it. GT7 (and DAS) are in the portfolio definitely but not from the revised strategy for clarification.
Agree, would be safer and resources wise better to grow the studio. There is a risk venturing independent they don't own the IP.
I am a bit on the fence, since increasing studio bloat while you already have them secured for years is not necessary but at the same time they have worked with Sony for a long time.
Yeah, the movie for this already exists and everybody knows it.
fun-killing nerfs weapon balancing, this game is 100% going to sell well above 20 million copies.
If they keep supporting the game with new content and send away the guy that is currently doing all the
Yes, first 12 weeks/3 months.
As reference GoWR had the previous record for the fastest selling PS console exclusive (and PS Studios published game) ever selling 11M in 3 months.
We know that it's Sony's 7th best selling games in USA, meaning it sold more there than some Sony games that sold over 15M worldwide. But the 12M number is from May 5th.
Regarding the multiplier estimate, as mentioned multiple times due to obvious reasons it doesn't work well with games that received review bombings or had important issues like server ones HD2 had at launch.
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Of the 12 live service games. MLB the Show I believe was the first.
Destruction All stars wasn’t part of the list and GT7 isn’t considered live service by Sony either.
Of course many of the 12 have now been cancelled.
Awesome!!! Congratulations to Sony and Arrowhead Studios. Helldivers 2 is such a great freaking game!!
The next wave of AAA single player games from Sony (assuming they even exists) is probably their last.
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He said this yesterday after the Hermen CEO announcement. Still independent.
I can see them eventually getting acquired but I feel they still need to prove themselves in Sony's eyes. But they have also made a shit ton of money, so they probably want to keep their independence now that their stocks are through the roof.
Shame Hermen didn't lock em down from 2022
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What's even more impressive with Helldivers 2 is that it overtook GoW:R and Spider-Man 2 in terms of units sold in the first 3 months without the usual Q3 boost(bundles/holidays in general). That's without talking about the IP strength difference of Helldivers 1 vs GoW 2018 and/or Spider 1 and Miles Morales which... Let's just say the difference was bigly here.
Nobody expected these results for sure, crazy stuff for real.
Well maybe like 5 OG Helldivers 1 stans.
Nobody expected these results for sure, crazy stuff for real.
Well maybe like 5 OG Helldivers 1 stans.
