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Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Needs Sales Of 7.2M Copies At Full Price To Break Even, Has Colossal Budget Of $300M - TwistedVoxel

https://twistedvoxel.com/marvels-spider-man-2-sales-break-even-colossal-budget/

Sony Interactive Entertainment and Insomniac Games' latest web-swinging adventure, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, requires sales of 7.2 million copies at full price in order to break even, as the game has a colossal budget of over $300 million. Among the recent spell of leaks involving Insomniac Games’ future titles are presentation slides indicating that the studio's latest release, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, has

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Needs Sales Of 7.2M Copies At Full Price To Break Even, Has Colossal Budget Of $300M - TwistedVoxel

29 comments

jordanlund

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Sold 5 million in the first 11 days so it's likely already surpassed that.

https://www.gameinformer.com/news/2023/11/09/marvels-spider-man-2-hits-5-million-sold-in-11-days-as-ps5-surpasses-465-million

ZephyrXero

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The OP article also mentions that they are expecting to sell 11.6 million in the first year. They're gonna be fine

jordanlund

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If they burned through 5 million in 11 days they should be WELL past that by now I'd think...

Zorque

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For most things like games and movies, especially those that are highly anticipated, a huge chunk of sales are immediate. Then there's a steep drop off in rate of sales.

I wouldn't be surprised if they've long since surpassed their goal, but initial sales are generally just a good indication of initial sales. Not much else.

Fades

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What a fucking nothing article. Gotta get them clicks!!!

Journalism is fucking dead

uphillbothways

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They know these games sell systems. This and another recent headline about PS+ titles being Sony exclusives costing the company amount or whatever....
They know a huge part of why these projects are worth the cost is outside of sales of that game and as a mechanism to maintain market dominance.
(Edit: a word)

Omegamanthethird

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This is why I'm generally okay with Playstation exclusives, aside from the fact that most of them are IPs that wouldn't even exist otherwise. They're okay with higher budgets to maintain that higher level of quality.

dpkonofa

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It’s a fantastic game that improved on the first games in nearly every way. They’ll hit it and easily surpass it, especially as more people get their PS5’s.

Jakeroxs

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Do you know anyone who wants a ps5 who doesn't have one already irl?

Personally I left consoles behind in the 360/ps3 era, luckily Sony has been porting games to PC.

I hope they continue that trend instead of slipping back into forced exclusives, I like being able to play the games, but not enough to buy a console again.

dpkonofa

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Yes, several. Some of the people are waiting for their kids’ birthdays, others are waiting on a specific release, and still others are waiting to see if a slim version comes out (with the disk).

Jakeroxs

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Fair enough, I admittedly don't talk to people about personal stuff outside of my friend groups, so have a small window of what normal people want lol.

Pretty much all of them either bought the ps5 already, or aren't interested in getting one.

LaserTurboShark69

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Golly I'm glad they took such a big risk for us undeserving gamers

themeatbridge

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Or they could sell 14.4 million at half price, since the actual product can be copied and downloaded as many times as needed.

Fades

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This is a fucking nothing article that is already outdated. The fucking piece of shit clickbait title tries to imply they are struggling to break even when they could not be further from the truth.

Fuck this clickbait ass BULLSHIT

mojofrododojo

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downvote it and move on, giving it attention only gets replies like 'welcome to lemmy' - not really helpful - or people looking to argue about pedantry.

I don't disagree about the article tho.

douglasg14b

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Welcome to ~~Reddit~~ lemmy.

The lowest common denominator always rules unless it's actively curated.

FrankTheHealer

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I have every intention of buying it.......when it comes to Steam. I'm not getting PS5 just to play it now.

Jeremyward

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Same, I looked at ps5 prices and said I'll wait the two years or whatever

Andrenikous

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Hell, I have a ps5 and now that they release games on pc it’s hard for me to justify buying anything for the PlayStation when I can wait to play on my desktop or steam deck.

Hello_there

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There's a bunch of recent spiderman games out. Remastered 1, Miles Morales, and 2? Is there any point to buying one over the other?

MoxFcCloud

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Start with 1 (remastered or not, changes are cosmetic and negligible). If you like it, miles morales is short and necessary story wise to play 2. They all play and feel pretty similar so if you don't like 1 don't bother with the next 2

zenharbinger

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they are serial for their story. But I played MM first.

KingThrillgore

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Its going to be a nightmare the moment one of these AAAs fails to sell, and Sony knows it.

ZephyrXero

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Then there was probably another 50 mill or so put into the marketing and advertisement on top of that

ICastFist

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It's possible that that 300 million budget is already accounting for all the marketing expenses. Skyrim's budget was 100 million, of which ~15m was marketing.

ZephyrXero

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It's possible. But I know in the film industry they will sometimes spend just as much on marketing as they did on making the whole damn movie now. And their budgets are generally reported separately

Princeali311

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Don't also doesn't care if this particular game does but so well. It will sell systems and lock people into the ecosystem.

pikmeir

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No, it doesn't need that many. I read that it will have micro-transactions.

epicsninja

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Why are you referring to it in future tense? The game came out in October.