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The story
Figures circulating on social media claim that first-week European sales of Sony’s action game Wolverine (developed by Insomniac Games) came in roughly 60% below the opening of its predecessor, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. The numbers set off discussion on 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (“Geha”) board†. With the title reportedly carrying a development budget of around $300 million and already facing criticism over its reception, the steep drop drew mixed reactions — some posters noted the tally may only cover physical copies in a market with a high digital-sales ratio, while others compared it to a separate report claiming Death Stranding 2‘s European sales were down 66% year-on-year from its own predecessor over the same period.
† “Geha” (ゲハ) is 5ch shorthand for the Hardware/Industry board, a notoriously combative forum for console-war-style sales discussion.
What people said
Converting that to Skytree height:
634 × 0.4 = 253.6m
…and it still loses to Tokyo Tower by a mile (333m) 😭
If this is really down 60%, that's under 1 million by simple math…
No wonder there's been no official announcement.
Under a million at launch, huh.
Explains why they were so desperate to push that rumor of "2 million sold" lol
Basically neck and neck, but wait — Death Stranding 2 dropped MORE than Wolverine, a game this widely mocked? 🥺
And THAT region is down 60%?
What??
Sounds like it's headed for a huge flop in Japan too — this could be bad worldwide.
Hey, it kept 40%…!
‡ “クソして寝ろ” (“take a shit and go to sleep”) is a stock 5ch put-down meaning roughly “give up, there’s nothing left to argue.”
but all that ended up doing was torching the PS Store's credibility as a benchmark…
Never once saw anyone say it was more fun than Spider-Man 2.
After seeing all those bugs and the shoddy game systems, being told the store rating beats Spider-Man just doesn't land.
§ “Saros” appears to refer to a sales-tracking account/analyst cited as the source of the 300k-unit figure; not independently verified here.
The digital ratio isn't going to swing wildly from Spider-Man 2's, though.
Same PS5 exclusive, same Marvel lineup, same publisher, same genre of game.
Too correct, lol.
Yeah, it's not even a code-in-a-box release, no real reason for it to shift much.
So… it bombed.
Yeah, no reason for it to change.
When Sony stays silent officially, that's a bad sign.
They can't say it themselves, so they're letting fake numbers do the talking instead.
→ and it's down 60% there
■ Same PS5 exclusive, same Marvel property, same developer, so no real reason for the digital ratio to differ from Spider-Man 2
→ meaning it really is down ~60%
■ Reputation is terrible, so little chance of a sales rebound from here
There's genuinely nothing left to argue — total flop 😄
No room left to argue, it just bombed, lol.
And a Japan flop is basically locked in too.
Wasn't the plan for the claws to be able to cut through literally anything?
Like, insanely high Metascore and user score driving steady long-tail sales, maybe? 😄😄😄
Both are low, so honestly a slow-burn sales recovery looks unlikely too…
Sony would totally do that.
Background and Key Points
Opening-week sales figures for games are typically unofficial estimates compiled from European retail-panel data, and this “60% decline” figure is no exception — it originates from a screenshot circulating on social media, not a number officially released by Sony or developer Insomniac Games. In recent years, digital sales have come to account for over 70% of total sales for many major titles, so a tally covering physical copies alone captures only part of actual sales — a point worth keeping in mind. Within the thread, the dominant view was that since Wolverine shares a PS5-exclusive, Marvel-branded, same-publisher profile with Spider-Man 2, its digital sales ratio is unlikely to differ much — implying the real decline is close to the reported 60% — though this remains speculation rather than confirmed data. The also-discussed claim that Death Stranding 2‘s European sales fell 66% comes from a similarly unofficial tally, and it’s worth noting that comparing the two titles side by side is itself a comparison built on non-official data.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry, “Geha”) thread “Europe Sales: “Wolverine Down 60% From Spider-Man 2 — Total Flop 😭”.”
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