Marvel's Wolverine Has Sold 2.4 Million Copies in Its First 50 Days
Logan heals fast. His sales chart is taking its time.
Sony has finally put a number on Marvel's Wolverine. Insomniac's PS5 exclusive has sold 2.4 million copies as of November 4, according to the supplement to Sony's latest quarterly earnings report (Push Square).
The game launched on September 15, so that figure covers its first 50 days on the market, and it's the first official sales number Sony has shared for the game since it came out.
How do Wolverine's sales compare to Spider-Man 2?
It isn't close, at least for now, because Marvel's Spider-Man 2 sold 2.5 million copies in its first 24 hours and hit 5 million in just 11 days. Ghost of Yotei, another big PS5 release this fall, reached 3.3 million in its first month (GamingBolt).
Push Square called it "a fairly slow start for a game of this scope and budget," and that budget is reportedly around $300 million.
Was Wolverine a hit at launch?
In some ways it was, since it was the best-selling game in the US in September by dollar sales, which we covered when Wolverine topped the September charts. It also gave Sony its best launch month since Helldivers 2.
The problem is what came after, because by October the game had dropped to 14th place on the US PlayStation Store charts, and it missed Europe's top 20 completely. Those charts suggest that most fans who wanted it on day one bought it right away, and the second wave of buyers hasn't arrived yet.
Is Marvel's Wolverine a flop?
My read is no, but it's not the giant Sony hoped for either. Selling 2.4 million copies in 50 days would be a great result for most games, and plenty of studios would be thrilled with it. The issue is that Insomniac's Spider-Man games set the bar so high that anything below that feels like a miss. (Logan, of all heroes, should understand dealing with unfair expectations.)
The holidays should help a lot, since big single-player games often get a second life from sales and gift cards, and Wolverine will be one of the biggest names on the PS5 shelf this December. It just has to share that shelf with GTA 6, which arrives on November 19 and will probably eat up a lot of the attention and money that players have to spend this season.
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