Marvel’s Spider-Man – the UK’s favourite neighbourhood video game

Sony’s latest PS4 exclusive has beaten Far Cry 5 and God Of War and become the fastest-selling Marvel game of all-time.

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The new PlayStation 4 Spider-Man game is already a record-breaker, narrowly beating the multiformat Far Cry 5 to become the fastest-selling game of the year so far.

It also sold almost twice as much as God Of War, which has so far been the biggest exclusive of the year on any format. It’s also the fastest-selling PlayStation 4 game since Call Of Duty: WWII.

It’s not however the fastest-selling superhero game though, coming in behind the multiformat Batman: Arkham Knight. It is the fastest-selling Marvel game though, easily beating Lego Marvel Super Heroes.




Not that there’s much else to compare it to, but the fact that there are so few superhero games in general may finally change once publishers see the success of the game.

Although Spider-Man (and Batman) have always fared much better than other characters when it comes to video game adaptations.

Despite the release of Spider-Man, last week was a busy week in general with the multiformat Dragon Quest XI coming in at number two in both charts.

Destiny 2: Forsaken only made it to number eight in the all-formats chart but the majority of its sales will be digital, which are not counted by these retail-only charts.

Spider-Man represents the unofficial start of the Christmas games rush and is likely to be overthrown next week by the release of Shadow Of The Tomb Raider on Friday, with NBAK 2K19 due out tomorrow.

UK individual formats chart – 8 September 1 (-) Marvel’s Spider-Man (PS4)

2 (-) Dragon Quest XI: Echoes Of An Elusive Age (PS4)

3 (4) Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (NS)

4 (1) PES 2019 (PS4)

5 (6) Grand Theft Auto V (PS4)

6 (2) F1 2018 (PS4)

7 (7) PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (XO)

8 (8) God Of War (PS4)

9 (10)Firewall Zero Hour (PS4)

10(14)Super Mario Odyssey (NS)

UK all formats chart - 8 September 1 (-) Marvel’s Spider-Man (PS4)

2 (-) Dragon Quest XI: Echoes Of An Elusive Age (PS4)

3 (3) Grand Theft Auto V (PS4)

4 (1) F1 2018 (XO)

5 (4) Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy (XO/NS/PS4/PC)

6 (2) PES 2019 (PS4/XO)

7 (6) Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (NS)

8 (-) Destiny 2: Forsaken (PS4/XO/PC)

9 (7) PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Game Preview Edition (XO)

10(12)Lego The Incredibles (PS4/XO/NS)

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