{"id":17219,"date":"2023-10-23T18:34:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T18:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/sony-says-marvels-spider-man-2-video-game-sales-set-record\/"},"modified":"2023-10-23T18:34:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T18:34:08","slug":"sony-says-marvels-spider-man-2-video-game-sales-set-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/sony-says-marvels-spider-man-2-video-game-sales-set-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony says &#8216;Marvel&#8217;s Spider-Man 2&#8217; video game sales set record"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n            <!-- image --><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/spider-man.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>            <!-- content --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) said Monday that the \u2018<em>Marvel\u2019s Spider-Man 2<\/em>\u2018 videogame was snapped up so fast that it set a record for PlayStation Studios.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch ARY News live on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/live.arynews.tv\/hq\/\">live.arynews.tv<\/a><\/strong><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018<em>Marvel\u2019s Spider-Man 2<\/em>\u2018, developed in collaboration with Insomniac Games, became the fastest-selling PlayStation Studios game in the 24 hours after its release on Friday, with more than 2.5 million copies bought, according to SIE.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to say thank you to the fans,\u201d SIE global marketing vice president Eric Lempel said in a release. \u201cWith an epic storyline, two playable superheroes, a visually-stunning Marvel\u2019s New York, and so much more, this is a game you can get lost in for hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"Marvel&#039;s Spider-Man 2 - Be Greater. 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Trailer I PS5 Games\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nq1M_Wc4FIc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u2018<em>Spider-Man<\/em>\u2018 emerged as a superhero in the Marvel comics of the early 1960s and first appeared in video games in the 1990s, but without major success.<\/p>\n<p>Blockbuster superhero movies in the 2000s led to the character headlining a series of games developed from 2018 by Insomniac for Sony, which bought the studio the following year.<\/p>\n<p>Sony spent heavily developing \u2018<em>Marvel\u2019s Spider-Man 2<\/em>\u2018, its graphics pushing the PlayStation 5\u2019s technical capacities to the max to battle Kraven the Hunter and other villains.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CyvgV-iNE_r\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2018<em>Spider-Man<\/em>\u2018 can be played in the \u201cskin\u201d of the original Peter Parker or in the guise of the Hispanic-African-American teenager Miles Morales created in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled with how our characters are represented and the powerful, meaningful, new stories that emerge from their depictions in game,\u201d Marvel Games head Jay Ong said in a release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><strong>Related \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/marvels-spider-man-2-review-gaming-experience-story-missions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018<em>Marvel\u2019s Spider-Man 2<\/em>\u2018 Review: Insomniac Games\u2019 Ambitious Sequel Swings for the Fences<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"rocketlazyloadscript\">\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n      appId      : '161345524510473',\n      cookie     : true,\n      xfbml      : true,\n      version    : 'v3.0'\n    });\n    FB.AppEvents.logPageView();   \n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) said Monday that the \u2018Marvel\u2019s Spider-Man 2\u2018 videogame was snapped up so fast that it set a record for PlayStation Studios. Watch ARY News live on\u00a0live.arynews.tv\u00a0 \u2018Marvel\u2019s Spider-Man 2\u2018, developed in collaboration with Insomniac Games, became the fastest-selling PlayStation Studios game in the 24 hours after its release on Friday, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/spider-man.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}