Insomniac’s Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 has hit another sales milestone: it’s now up to 10 million copies sold as of February 4, 2024.
Sony said previously Spider-Man 2 was the fastest-selling PlayStation Studios game over a 24-hour period when the PlayStation 5 exclusive sold more than 2.5 million copies in a day. That sales milestone put Spider-Man 2 ahead of Sony Santa Monica’s God of War Ragnarok at the top of the PlayStation day-one launch sales chart.
Spider-Man 2 went on to sell five million after just 11 days on sale. And now, Sony has confirmed it’s sold 10 million after 107 days on sale. To put that into more context, Marvel’s Spider-Man, which launched on PlayStation 4 in 2018, sold nine million copies after 80 days on sale, and 13.2 million after 325 days on sale.
The release of data stolen from Insomniac late last year revealed internal concern at the growing cost of the developer’s games. According to Kotaku’s report on the breach, Spider-Man 2 development costs ran $30 million over the original $270 million budget, and ultimately needed to sell 7.2 million units to break even. The latest sales figures suggest Spider-Man 2 has now veered into profitable territory, although Sony has yet to confirm that itself.
While Spider-Man 2 appears to have been successful for Sony, the company signaled a sparse year for big first-party exclusives. Sony said it will not release any major existing PlayStation franchise games before April 2025, ruling out big new sequels in the likes of its God of War and Spider-Man series.
What’s next for Insomniac? Spider-Man 2 gets its long-awaited update in March, and the studio is working on a Wolverine game for PS5.
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