It’s truthful to say that not even of their wildest desires, Sony or developer Arrowhead Recreation Studios might have anticipated that Helldivers 2 would have loved the extent of success that it has. Regardless of server points and chronic connectivity issues which have solely simply now began easing up, the co-op shooter has attracted a sizeable playerbase.
In actual fact, its gross sales are solely rising because it will get additional away from launch and phrase of mouth continues to assemble momentum. Taking to Twitter, Circana analyst Mat Piscatella not too long ago revealed that Helldivers 2’s mixed bodily and digital greenback gross sales within the US (i.e. income generated from unit gross sales) in its second week had been greater than twice as excessive as what the sport managed in its first week.
Recreation gross sales are typically frontloaded as a rule, with vital preliminary gross sales upon launch being adopted by a trickle that progressively slows down, so that is fairly uncommon, to say the very least. As Piscatella places it, “Inverse decays are uncommon, this massive every week two leap much more so, particularly exterior the Vacation window.”
Helldivers 2 is having fun with comparable success in different areas as properly. Within the UK, as an illustration, its gross sales have grown week-on-week for the final two weeks. Just lately, Arrowhead Recreation Studios CEO Johan Pilestedt urged that the sport has offered no less than round three million copies worldwide.
Helldivers 2 is offered on PS5 and PC. Learn our overview of the sport by right here.
US mixed phys & dig greenback gross sales of Helldivers II throughout its second week in market greater than doubled launch week quantity. Inverse decays are uncommon, this massive every week 2 leap even moreso, particularly exterior the vacation window. Nice stuff. Supply: Circana Retail Monitoring Service.
— Mat Piscatella (@MatPiscatella) February 27, 2024
