This conclusion was reached by Alinea Analytics.
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
As noted by analysts, following the movie's release, Insomniac Games and Sony managed to sell 316,000 copies of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 across all platforms. Specifically, for the PlayStation version, about 20% of the newly released copies of the game were physical. Additionally, some players accessed Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 via the PlayStation Plus subscription.
It is estimated that this surge in interest brought Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 an additional $11 million in gross revenue.
Moreover, the film prompted many previous owners of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 to revisit the game. Analysts found that the daily player count recently exceeded one million, a figure last seen during the game's release week in October 2023.
For fairness, analysts noted that during the screening of “Spider-Man: A New Day,” Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 was heavily discounted, which also drove sales. Nevertheless, they primarily attribute the sales spike to the film itself. To illustrate, Alinea Analytics pointed out that during a previous sale, the PlayStation version of the title sold at an average rate of 6,300 copies per day, while the current rate reached 15,000 copies per day. A similar trend was observed on Steam.
According to Alinea Analytics, over nearly three years, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 has sold a total of 18.2 million copies, with 92% of these sales on PlayStation 5. The cumulative gross revenue of the game has reached $1.2 billion.