Sony's big single-player exclusives keep selling millions at launch.
Marvel's Spider-Man 2Sony says it sold 2.5 million copies to customers in the first 24 hours since the game's release.
In the U.S., the basic version of Spider-Man 2 sells for $70, though Sony also sells a deluxe version for $80 and a collectors edition with a statue for $230.Sony's first-party games are among the industry's most critically acclaimed and are regularly touted by Sony as record-breakers.Sony's highly polished and largely single-player blockbusters are undoubtedly successful but present a tough model for competitors to imitate.
Poorly redacted documents from the FTC's lawsuit against Microsoft's bid for Activision revealed The Last of Us Part II cost As a publisher of its own games, Sony doesn't have to pay the platform fee that third-party game makers do to sell their titles on PlayStation . But Spider-Man, being a license, does incur a fee to rights-holder Disney that a PlayStation-born franchise like God of War or The Last of Us does not.The development and marketing budget for Spider-Man 2 isn't public, but if its first 2.5 million copies sold for at least $70 each, that'd be a $175 million first-day haul.
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