Game sales Round-up (07.02.2024 - 20.02.2024)
Alan Wake 2; Marvel's Spider-Man II; Heldivers II are enjoying popularity.
Chrome Valley Customs has earned $40 million since its release in June 2023. Space Ape expects the game to become the highest-earning in their portfolio. Previously, the studio released Beatstar ($120 million in 2 years).
Persona 3 Reload sold a million copies in a week. It's the fastest-selling game in Atlus' history.
Helldivers 2 is doing great. On February 11th, developers reported the first million copies sold, and on February 19th, the game reached a peak online of 411 thousand players on Steam alone.
Silent Hill: The Short Message has been downloaded over 2 million times. However, both critics and players received the project reservedly.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance has reached 6 million copies sold. It took 2 weeks for the first million and just over a year and a half for the sixth.
Granblue Fantasy: Relink surpassed 1 million copies in 11 days. Interestingly, the peak online at launch for a fairly niche project was 114 thousand people.
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 reached 10 million sales in less than 4 months since release. The first 5 million were sold in a few weeks; total franchise sales exceeded 50 million copies.
Bandai Namco Entertainment is pleased with the results of Tekken 8 - the game sold 2 million copies in less than 3 weeks. The company reports that sales of the new installment are better than those of previous entries in the series.
Metro Exodus has entered the club of projects that have sold over 10 million copies. In 2022, there were reports of 6 million sales - impressive growth.
Alan Wake II sold 1.3 million copies. It's the fastest-selling game from Remedy; in the first couple of months, it outsold Control by 50% in 4 months. "You have no idea how difficult it is to make a game that will be bought a million times," Remedy said. We believe them.
2023 was a great year for gamers and game studios (not quite the same for developers) and it seems that 2024 will be a great one for both, hope the layofss stop and companies had organized their mess.
Post-covid gave an artificial sensation of growth due to the confinement and inflated the companies with an overgrowth that couldn't be sustained in a normal market.
Hopefully this year will bring back things to normal.