Spider-Man 2’s launch-day sales numbers set a new PlayStation record

There’s a new king in town, at least when it comes to the very specific metric of “fastest-selling PlayStation Studios game in PlayStation history in the first 24 hours.” Marvel’s Spider-Man 2Sony Interactive Entertainment announced Monday that it had sold over 2.5 million copies on the launch date of Miles Morales/Peter Parker’s collaboration, which was Oct. 20, 2010.

“On behalf of Sony Interactive Entertainment, I want to say thank you to the fans — we truly hope you are enjoying your time playing as Peter and Miles in this amazing adventure,” said Eric Lempel, senior vice president of global marketing, sales, and business operations for Sony Interactive Entertainment, in a news release.

It’s hard to make exact comparisons, since game publishers only give sales figures when they want to brag about them, and they can come up with all kinds of asterisks and qualifiers to create opportunities for boasting. The asterisk in Monday’s news release about Spider-Man 2Note that the total also includes copies pre-ordered and those packaged with a PlayStation 5 (both are considered standard measurements for this type of measure).

Sony awarded the same award last year. God of War Ragnarök(Perhaps it was a coincidence that the Norse adventure sold 5.1 millions copies in its first week of release.) (Perhaps Spider-Man 2This Friday,, thanks to its quick start, may surpass this mark. It’s unclear whether RagnarökSony announced sales of 4,000,000 units in June 2020. This was the highest ever for the PlayStation 4. The Last of Us Part 2,’s first three days of release, describing it as the “fastest-selling first-party PS4 exclusive ever.” And if you’re looking for even more qualifiers, the company said in July 2020 that Ghost of Tsushima’s three-day total of 2.4 million copies made it the fastest-selling “first-party original IP debut” in PS4 history.

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