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Sephiran 21 hours ago
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JRPGfan said:

"Marvel's Wolverine generated the highest launch month full game dollar sales for a Sony published title since the February 2024,
debut of Helldivers II," - Piscatella.



Looks like it sold much better than I thought it would.
Helldivers II was a high as I remember, like beating Spiderman 2's launch? I think.
And that was on PC and Consoles, where it actually did really well on pc too, while Wolverine was only on Playstation.

There was also news about it being the 11th best selling game, of the year, with less than 2 weeks of tracking sales.
Some of those titles have been out for awhile and did well, so, yeah Wolverine looks like it wasn't a dud.

I'm curious about how it's legs are.... will it keep selling at high rates? Time will tell.
I know the more intune gamers ect, disliked stuff like the difficulty and fart trails (hahaha).... but maybe that stuff doesn't really matter to casuals that much.

If anything this just confirms that for a major Sony AAA tentpole release, Wolverine underperformed. These kinds of AAA Sony games are games that normally skyrocket to the top of the YTD Circana charts the month they release, Wolverine didn't do that, and also, PSN charts tracking shows that its legs is worse than the typical major Sony AAA release as well. Its also performing worse from the perspective that Wolverine would be more US slated in terms of sales than the typical Sony AAA game. So Wolverine is both underperforming in the US compared to comparable Sony releases, its also performing much worse outside the US in major PS markets like Europe than comparable Sony releases as well.

Wolverine has a real chance of being outsold this year by a low budget Nintendo game like Tomodachi Life in its by far strongest market, the US. That is an underperforming release for the budget level it has.