Spider-Man 2 beats Super Mario Bros Wonder to No.1 | UK Physical Charts
Spider-Man 2 beat out competition from Super Mario to claim No.1 in the UK boxed retail charts, GfK data reveals.
The PlayStation 5 exclusive had a strong launch. It is the biggest PS5 boxed launch of the year, with sales almost 5% bigger than the previous high point: the PS5 launch of Hogwarts Legacy back in February.
Spider-Man 2's launch sales are just over 3% lower than the PS5 launch of God of War Ragnarok, which was the biggest PlayStation launch of all time when it arrived last year. Of course, this is purely physical sales, so we will have to wait until digital comes in to find out which game comes out top. Note: God of War Ragnarok launched on a Wednesday, whereas Spider-Man 2 arrived on Friday, so last year's title had a few extra days on sale.
Spider-Man 2 is the fourth biggest boxed game launch of the year, behind Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, EA Sports FC24 and Hogwarts Legacy.
Compared with Spider-Man: Miles Morales, which released on PS4 and PS5 in 2020, boxed launch sales of Spider-Man 2 are 41% higher. When looking at the original Spider-Man, the new game's sales are 38% lower. The original Spider-Man was released in 2018, and digital downloading has accelerated significantly since then. Again, we will have to wait for the download data to come in to see how it truly compares.
The success of Spider-Man 2 means that the darling of the physical games market, Nintendo, had to settle for No.2 with its big launch of Super Mario Bros Wonder.
It was still a great launch for Nintendo. The game's sales are slightly ahead of New Super Mario Bros Wii, which was released in 2009, making it the biggest 2D Mario game launch in UK history. In fact, it's only narrowly behind Super Mario Odyssey (2017) and Super Mario
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