Spider-Man PS4 Will Be One of This Year’s Best-Sellers, Says the NPD
At least, that’s what the NPD thinks. The analyst group’s Mat Piscatella recently took to Twitter to note that he feels that Insomniac Games’ heroic masterpiece could easily be one of the top-selling games of 2018, though it’s too soon for an exact sales estimate.
You can see the tweet for yourself here, in which Piscatella notes, “Marvel’s Spider-Man should be a big holiday hit, high 80s meta(score) gives me more confidence in my prediction of it coming in around #10 on the annual full game sales charts for the U.S.”
This ties in with a much bigger report in which Piscatella made predictions for some of the best-selling games back in July. In that report, he also said that Spider-Man could come in at the number ten position, just barely behind Sony’s other juggernaut hit God of War at the number eight spot. (Red Dead Redemption 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 currently sit in the top two spots, followed by Battlefield V, NBA 2K19 and Far Cry 5.)
Even though those titles will benefit from being released on multiple platforms (whereas Spider-Man is a PlayStation 4 exclusive), that doesn’t mean Marvel’s muscle won’t help Sony’s latest release sell significantly well. It’s being pushed with a huge marketing campaign, as well as TV ads, a special launch event, promotional giveaways, pre-order bonuses and so much more. It doesn’t hurt that Marvel could also tie it in with Avengers: Infinity War, since the Iron Spider costume is one of the confirmed pre-order bonuses for the game.
As far as how many copies it’ll sell, our guess is somewhere around eight million, which is a number PS4 exclusives usually circle around. But it might do even better than that. Hopefully, Sony will have some launch numbers around this time next week to confirm the game’s overall performance. But based on reviews, early buzz and pre-order numbers, there’s no reason why Spider-Man can’t find success in the video game world.
Spider-Man releases on September 7 for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 4 Pro.
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JastyPosted:
I believe it. Not a bold claim and it's already sold a crazy amount. Good on insomniac.
TOXICPosted:
I believe this 100%, my mate just flat out bought a PS4 today just to play this game lmao. Gonna be a big hit either way.
CraigPosted:
Would be even better if they released this on more platforms than just the 1. Real shame as this could have been brilliant. But they restricted it a lot imo.
36Posted:
This doesn't surprise me this game looks insane, It's ashame it's only being released on PS4
SakonPosted:
I agree, I mostly play XB1 but Sony has great exclusives. I purchased my PS4 mostly for Kingdom Hearts, God of War & Spider-Man
DecyPosted:
Jimbo I don't doubt it. It would be even bigger if it wasn't an exclusive imo.
Exactlly my thoughts may be the best selling playstation but mot all of the audience is getting to experience it so thats about as far as it will go unless the release it on other platforms.
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