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Marvel's 'Spider-Man' sold 3.3M copies in the first three days of release
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In the video below, Sciurus clears up any misconceptions regarding the Marvel & Sony partnership and sheds some light on what to expect from them in the near future. Again, I'd categorize this as a rumor and please take it with a grain of salt until official details are released of course.
https://youtu.be/cjmC-JRBcPM
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People says it includes digital. Otherwise it should be around 4,5 millions. Even more with bundles
It excludes only bundles maybe 300k to 500k bundles wordwilde. In Europe we had some PS4 Slim bundle too not only PS4 Pro.
Not exactly, its the fact that Spider-Man was unmistakably a AAA blockbuster to the average consumer and that made a huge amount of people want to play it. No other Spidey game has ever come close to rivaling a Spider-Man film like this one, the quality could be seen in every showing and ad.
And PS4 Slim bundle in Europe...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-Plays...qid=1537454772&sr=8-3&keywords=spider-man+ps4
Spiderman is a beast
Still haven't gotten a copy yet. Forsaken has been eating all my gaming time
Still haven't gotten a copy yet. Forsaken has been eating all my gaming time
Are these 'I expected more' posts serious?
Insomniac games has one of the biggest commercial hits of all time on their hands.
Their last big new console exclusive IP (Sunset Overdrive) probably struggled to hit >1mil lifetime and here they managed to pull off an evergreen title from freaking scratch.
It's unreal how much they knocked this one out of the park. The Spider-Man IP alone doesn't remotely ensure success, but all their talent and hard work paid off.
Insomniac games has one of the biggest commercial hits of all time on their hands.
Their last big new console exclusive IP (Sunset Overdrive) probably struggled to hit >1mil lifetime and here they managed to pull off an evergreen title from freaking scratch.
It's unreal how much they knocked this one out of the park. The Spider-Man IP alone doesn't remotely ensure success, but all their talent and hard work paid off.
So much for requiring 90+ Metacritic score. Insomniac + Sony have always been an amazing match and this is the culmination of the decades worth of strong partnership. Incredibly fun game and deserves the sales, I'm prolonging the ending because I don't want it to end.
It was beating GoW numbers in the UK and Japan by around double. I think that's why people expected more. They are not trying to downplay the incredible success.
Just for reference, Sunset Overdrive was rumoured to have sold about 320,000 copies in its first 3 weeks on sales.
Inb4: new IP, super-hero, blablabla
Inb4: new IP, super-hero, blablabla
How do you @ someone on here? I'd be interested to read his spin on why this isn't impressive or it's mostly due to the momentum of the MCU.
In the US where the publication is based, only the pro bundle was available. I ask yourself why they would include slim bundle numbers but not the pro bundle numbers?
Just having a Marvel game doesn't mean success. It's a combination of Insomniac, Sony marketing and the Marvel license that made this a runaway hit.
This video has false information. It states that Marvel approached Sony to create a Spider-Man game which isn't true and has been debunked several times.
Yeah, it's been normal for about a decade now. Video games are a bigger industry than films these days.Congrats to Insomniac on the record-breaking sales. By the way is this normal in gaming?
He's banned for a week, don't bother. Use the @ sign before there name.
They told it was big far the gamw with the biggest budget they had and they receive support and expertise of Sony in for cinematic single player game.
Sony bend new game comes out next year. Why not start preplanning on a superhero game after
If movie tickets were $60, the numbers would look slightly different.Congrats to Insomniac on the record-breaking sales. By the way is this normal in gaming?
But yeah, it's been used before.
Why? It's nice to bring focus to how much of a rampant success this is for Insomniac.
Simply incredible performance. Congrats to Insomniac, Sony, and jstevenson
Now here's the fun part, the opening 3 days isnt even the really impressive numbers. The 2 weeks+ ones are
Now here's the fun part, the opening 3 days isnt even the really impressive numbers. The 2 weeks+ ones are
Not to mention, we had months of everyone claiming it was going to handily beat God of War sales and possibly double them, but it's selling in the same range essentially. These are great numbers, but a lot of people were claiming it was going to do far more than this when the fan hysteria was at its peak.
It's going to be really interesting to see how Days Gone and Ghost of Tsushima do. I doubt they hit these peaks, but if they both end up reaching beyond 5 million in their lifetime, I think Playstation is likely in the process of setting a higher baseline than before for its big exclusives thanks to the success of the PS4 as well as the consistency of their investment in first parties since the PS3 days. I think we're just seeing the stars align and everything just paying off now for them.
The only guaranteed big hit incoming at the moment is The Last of Us Part II. Everything else is up in the air.
If we're going by these metrics you may as well add GT Sport to the list as it's already over 6m players and has been on the market a year less than FH3. Also unlikely to be a sequel this gen.
It's 3 Days of sales. We already have enough data from the following week or two in major markets to know Spider-Man is going handily outsell God of War. Maybe not double, but 50% higher seems reasonable.
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Because they are 'preplanning' Days Gone 2 after Days Gone 1.
Congrats to Insomniac on the record-breaking sales. By the way is this normal in gaming?
Wow that's impressive imagine the sales if this was multi-platform.
Avalanche studios, remedy, ioi and obsidian are probably options for the future. I doubt any of them are working on marvel properties currently though. Marvel games did visit Ssm after god of war released so not sure if something happens there. I mean why would marvel games visit Sony Santa Monica unless they want to discuss a possibility of working together.