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Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is the fastest selling first-party game in PlayStation history

More than 2.5 million copies sold in just a day

Marco Wutz

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is the fastest selling first-party game in PlayStation history
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is the fastest selling first-party game in PlayStation history /

Insomniac Games certainly slung its webs around a great many players: Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 has officially been declared the “fastest selling PlayStation studios game in PlayStation history” by the platform’s official social media. Over 2.5 million copies of the action-adventure game have been sold in the first 24 hours after launch, Sony stated.

It’s the third game by Insomniac featuring the superhero in the tight skinsuit after the original Marvel’s Spider-Man and the Miles Morales spin-off, both of which have been received well in their time. This good reputation certainly helped the studio out now – more decisive, probably, was that Insomniac did one hell of a job with the game.

Reviews for the title are glowing – our own Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 review is no different in that regard – and the team clearly put a ton of effort and passion into the project, as our Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 tech interview has shown, which dives into the spectacular visuals of the title.

Additional excitement has been generated by the fact that players get to take control of the popular Venom, which has fueled hopes about a Venom spin-off. Even though that’s surely not off the table, going by what the developers have said, their post-launch support for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 with New Game Plus and other features comes first. Afterwards, they already have the next superhero game lined up with Marvel’s Wolverine, for which the work on Spidey provided valuable insights and lessons, as senior game director Ryan Smith told GLHF.

Insomniac Games really delivered once again with this title, which is one of the few big-budget games this year to launch without any major technical deficits – great news for the studio, Sony, and PS5 players out there enjoying the game right now.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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