Spider-Man: Miles Morales Game Tanks; 70% Drop
Spider-Man: Miles Morales Game Tanks; 70% Drop
Following Marvel's The Avengers, now the
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales video game has tanked completely as it sold 70% less than the first game.
The sales info comes from
Super Data, a Nielsen Company, who reports the numbers where the first
Spider-Man game sold 2.2 million copies at launch, but
Miles Morales only sold 663k:
Spider-Man: Miles Morales sold 663K digital units across PlayStation 4 and 5. Sales of the Sony-published title did not compare to the launch of
Marvel’s Spider-Man in September 2018 (2.2M).
The
Spider-Man: Miles Morales game didn't even make it into the top ten for the month of November, and according to the charts, sold less than
Marvel's Avengers, which is a disaster as well, as
Marvel's Avengers is
confirmed to be losing money and players are leaving in droves, so just imagine how bad it must be for the
Miles Morales game.
Fans want original characters, not replacements
While the site and some other gamer sites try to make excuses that sequels don't always perform the same as the first game's release, I don't think that is the case for the
Batman Arkham games or games such as
Call of Duty or what have you, and even if so, a 70% drop is huge -- that means 70% of those gamers that bought and played the first
Spider-Man game chose not to buy
Miles Morales.
70%.
What I find interesting is that both
Marvel's Avengers and the
Miles Morales games feature politically correct replacement characters for the much more popular Marvel characters, as
Marvel's Avengers features Kamala Khan as Ms. Marvel (who replaced Carol Danvers) who basically replaces The Avengers, and of course, for the
Spider-Man game, Miles Morales is a Peter Parker Spider-Man replacement.
What typically happens, and we see this in Hollywood all the time, is that story and content are sacrificed in order to push a politically correct-driven agenda that backfires completely (Disney Star Wars, Doctor Who, Supergirl, Terminator, Ghostbusters, etc).
Is this supposed to be a big deal?