Marvel Spiderman 2 has sold more than 11m copies
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Not great numbers, probably quite a few waiting for that PC port.
So I remembered correctly.
The Spider-man 2 sales are not good indeed.
I expected it to be close to 20 million right now.
I've noticed the same with forbidden west which sold significantly less than zero dawn.
What poor analysis.
Spider-Man 1 released in 2018 i.e. 5 years after the launch of the PS4. That's nearly 2 years of install base extra. And on top of that was a 60 dollar title compared to a 70 dollar title.
Why you would expect Spider-Man 2 to magically get to 20 million in 6 months when the first game with a larger userbase took two years to get that is remarkably dense.
Spider-Man 2 will continue to be one of the best selling PlayStation games this year, especially in the holiday season. It's less than 2.2 million units behind the first game launch aligned with a smaller userbase.
Zero Dawn released in PS4 year 4. Forbidden West launched in year 2... and hit PS+ Extra entirely too early.
Some of you are absolutely trolling at this point.
Yep. You have some apologists in here claiming it's due to a lower install base (which surely is a factor), but forget that Spider-Man 2 was basically the only PS studio release of the year and the only game after GoW Ragnarök.
Also Spider-Man 1 was the first from a new dev after years of mediocre Activision games, people had more reasons to be cautious when it launched.
Definitely underperformed. Hopefully they can keep it relevant with price promotions
It's very telling that these doomers don't want to compare sales of games that released in 2015 and 2016...
Close to what?? Ok that's just delusional to expect 20 million in 7 months lol.
It should be around 14 - 15 million
Yup! They need to get as much $70 sales then at least drop it to $60 after 3 - 4 months.
Don't think they can without getting lawsuits at this stage
Not that it would matter but you know how petulant gamers are
Games are going on sale less often and for less drastic discounting.
Games are also showing to have legs as well. There are always methods to boost individual sales.
This Spider-Man 2 game for example will continue to sell through out the year and will get a sizeable bump this holiday and will probably be promoted as a PS5 Pro enhanced game.
When the next Spider-Man movie comes out, it'll probably boost the sales of the game. When the game releases on PC, it'll likely bump up the sales of the game on PS5 too. So will the release of the Venom game and potentially the Wolverine game as well. I'm sure they're planning some elements of crossover.
That's a massive reduction in revenue... As games continue to cost more to develop you somehow think the answer is to reduce their cost?