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To date, neither has revealed sales numbers, but on Steam, Helldivers 2 hit a peak of more than 450,000 concurrent players, while Suicide Squad's all-time high is less than 13,500, per SteamDB. TD Cowen analyst Doug Creutz estimated that Helldivers 2 has sold more than 8 million copies, and most remarkably, the numbers are growing every week. "We believe the game has performed well ahead of expectations," Creutz wrote in a note Thursday.

‘Helldivers 2’ Is a Surprise Hit for Sony in an Oversaturated Market

On Steam, the cooperative third-person shooter hit a peak of more than 450,000 concurrent players

www.bloomberg.com

 

[Danteyke223]

Yeah I can see the reason why the CEO said they are reworking their content roadmap. Think it is safe to say we'll get around 4-5 factions in total. Rebels being one of them already being hinted at in the news reels.

 

[Pelta88]

“I will say, when I look at a game like Helldivers 2, and it's a great game, kudos to the team shipping on PC and PlayStation, I'm not exactly sure who it helps in the industry by not being on Xbox.”

- Phil Spencer

 

[Draugoth]

Helldivers II has been a huge success for Arrowhead Game Studios and Sony. Even though it's been over a month since its release, the game's sales don't seem to be slowing down and it's winning over more and more players.

As reported by journalist Jason Schreier of the Bloomberg portal, the game seems to have been an even bigger success than expected. Although Sony has not revealed the game's official figures, analysts believe that it has already passed the 8 million copies sold worldwide.

To date, neither has revealed sales numbers, but on Steam, Helldivers 2 hit a peak of more than 450,000 concurrent players, while Suicide Squad’s all-time high is less than 13,500, per SteamDB. TD Cowen analyst Doug Creutz estimated that Helldivers 2 has sold more than 8 million copies, and most remarkably, the numbers are growing every week. “We believe the game has performed well ahead of expectations,” Creutz wrote in a note Thursday.

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[Little Mac]

 

[Vlodril]

Isn't that just speculation for now?

 

[Draugoth]

Isn't that just speculation for now?

Yes

 

[diffusionx]

this tiny studio delivered where Naughty Dog and Bungie didn’t and aren’t lmao

 

[Vlodril]

Yes

Ok because the title was presented as fact.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Wonderful start to the new era.

 

[Woopah]

Massive, must be way above their expectations.

 

[Kabelly]

this tiny studio delivered where Naughty Dog and Bungie didn’t and aren’t lmao

It actually hurts because I think Naughty Dog probably had too grand of an idea when all we needed was some good maps, stables connections, and TLOU II gameplay in a multiplayer setting. They already had the DNA in the first game. They wanted a whole story with voice acting and shit I'm assuming. Plus the corps want a pipeline of contents so that means a million ellie costumes they can't keep up with but we gotta farm.

TLOU II multiplayer could work so well. The gameplay is so good. Plus they've always been a single player studio first and foremost. This probably completely cut into their normal routines.

I'm very curious to try out this Rogue Mode because it probably had leftovers from the multiplayer.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Mad props to OP for shielding that headline from me and delaying my current aneurism for as long as you could.

 

[Shifty1897]

Those are incredible numbers. Congrats to Arrowhead, hopefully they have a really good profit sharing deal with Sony for this game.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

A game that doesn't try to shove a message down your throat doing well? Who would could have seen that?

 

[mckmas8808]

Congrats Arrowhead

 

[Killjoy-NL]

this tiny studio delivered where Naughty Dog and Bungie didn’t and aren’t lmao

Kind of a dumb statement.

Marathon is still in development, Destiny 1 sold 50M copies and D2 sold 38+M copies.

 

[MasterCornholio]

“I will say, when I look at a game like Helldivers 2, and it's a great game, kudos to the team shipping on PC and PlayStation, I'm not exactly sure who it helps in the industry by not being on Xbox.”

- Phil Spencer

It helps Phil Spencer

Would you like to know more?

 

[diffusionx]

Kind of a dumb statement.

Marathon is still in development, Destiny 1 sold 50M copies and D2 sold 38+M copies.

Marathon looks like shit and is testing poorly and Sony bought Bungie after all that shit. They got Lightfall which is a jump the shark moment for the game and it’s collapsing popularity.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

Marathon looks like shit and is testing poorly and Sony bought Bungie after all that shit. They got Lightfall which is a jump the shark moment for the game and it’s collapsing popularity.

Destiny 1 Alpha was also received rather poorly, when people discovered we couldn't go anywhere we wanted at all.
That doesn't have to say much.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

This just shows how traditional promo (E3, conferences etc) are dying.

The game had a few trailers that did bad at selling the game (it was hardly a huge pre-seller) and then it comes out and goes viral like this.

8M in less than 2 months is basically a bigger hit than games like Forbidden West that im sure cost a lot more to make.

 

[Quixz]

We went from "can the CCU on Steam surpass Infinite and Destiny?"

350K+ has been the norm for the past month.

I guess Sony is waiting for 10 million to announce the milestone.