Perhaps few would have believed in such a great success, but apparently it is exactly like this: Helldivers II is already proving to be one of the most successful Sony productions ever in the United States, going beyond the wildest expectations. This was reported by the well-known analyst Mat Piscatella of Circana .
Piscatella reveals that currently the cooperative multiplayer TPS developed by Arrowhead Game Studios is the seventh most commercially successful Sony game on American soil: ahead of him are only the three Marvel’s Spider-Man games from Insomniac Games , two God of War games and Ghost of Tsushuma . The analyst adds that much of this success is due to the simultaneous launch on PlayStation 5 and PC , with the latter version appearing to have achieved the most important results.
” The PC played a huge role in the success of Helldivers II in the US, allowing it to become the seventh most commercially successful game in Sony’s history. Without the PC release it wouldn’t even be in the Top 20 ,” says Piscatella. Furthermore, according to data collected by Circana, ” the game has ranked first in number of active users on Steam in the US every month since launch, including April. That’s why launching Helldivers II on both PlayStation and PC has proven to be a huge, sensational success “. In any case, the analyst highlights that the boom of Helldivers 2 in the USA is also thanks to the success achieved on PS5, and the numbers achieved on PC do not in any case undermine the impact had by the multiplayer TPS on the current generation Sony platform.
Considering the great results achieved so far, the spread of rumors about the possible arrival of Helldivers 2 also on Xbox is not surprising : is Sony seriously thinking about it?