Topic: Spider-Man 2 Goes Double Platinum

[Jonnyboy117]

Activision announces that two million copies of the game have been shipped out to retailers.

ACTIVISION SHIPS OVER TWO MILLION UNITS OF SPIDER-MAN 2™ VIDEO GAME

Santa Monica, CA – July 7, 2004 – Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) announced today that the company’s North American Publishing unit has shipped more than two million units of its Spider-Man 2™ video game timed to the theatrical release of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Columbia Pictures Spider-Man® 2.  The game, which is currently available at retail stores, lets players experience what it’s like to be the world’s most celebrated Super Hero as they web sling from buildings, dive from rooftops to the streets and scale the heights of Manhattan, a living breathing city complete with pedestrians, traffic, trains and helicopters.  Gamers can re-live the film’s storyline or embark on exclusive game missions as they perform heroic deeds, protect citizens from random crimes, and face off against the nefarious Doc Ock and other Marvel super-villains.

Spider-Man 2 for the PlayStation2 computer entertainment system, the Xbox video game system from Microsoft and Nintendo GameCube carry a “T” (Teen with violence) rating by the ESRB and the Game Boy Advance and PC versions carry an “E” (Everyone with violence) rating.

[StrikerObi]

This news is retarded. Anybody can ship 2 million of something. Activision, call me back when you sell 2 million of them.

[KDR_11k]

Atari made 12 million copies of ET, did THEY get any awards for that?

[bayard]

I heartily recommend this game!  it's like a cross between Tony Hawk and Grand Theft Auto. Except with webs.  If you like the open ended gameplay of Grand theft auto, and the freedom of moves of Tony Hawk, then you'll like this game.  I'm fairly certain that they will sell them with no problems.   ( it was actually sold out at my local EB for game cube, and I havd to get the guy to look in the back at Futureshop, there were none on the shelves.)

I've been up way past my bedtime the past 2 nights playing this game.    

[BranDonk Kong]

I imagine they've sold a great deal of that total. It is a very solid game, a big step up from the original.

[Ian Sane]

"Atari made 12 million copies of ET, did THEY get any awards for that?"

If they did they probably sold them for food.

[mouse_clicker]

This game is boring- the concept is great but the execution can't hold your attention enough to warrant a purchase. Sometimes you really do feel like you're Spider-Man, but that illusion is destroyed when you bounce off a building. I strongly suggest you pass on this one, or at least rent it. It certainly doesn't deserve to go double platinum- this game will probably keep Activision around longer than they should be, too, just like what Enter the Matrix did for Atari.

[StrikerObi]

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Originally posted by: Brandogg
I imagine they've sold a great deal of that total. It is a very solid game, a big step up from the original.

No game gets even close to 1 million within a week of release.

[mouse_clicker]

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No game gets even close to 1 million within a week of release.

Didn't Final Fantasy X sell something like 2 million copies in less than a month in Japan?

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

What about Mario Kart: Double Dash!!?

[KDR_11k]

Activision has iD software, they won't die easily. Spiderman 2 is likely just a small dent compared to Doom 3, one of the few PC games that are actually anticipated (since all the platform gets from the big guys is FPS and RTS there isn't much to anticipate, in the end it's all the same).

Ian: Actually, no. They bought a landfill and dumped all those ET carts in there along with the largely unsold stock of 15 million produced Pac Man carts (yes, Pac Man, wasn't bad, but it's akin to Nintendo making 20 million copies of the next big Cube games, more copies made than consoles sold).

[mouse_clicker]

No, Atari made the Pac-Man game for the 2600 themselves, and it WAS bad, very bad.  

[Ian Sane]

"Ian: Actually, no. They bought a landfill and dumped all those ET carts in there"

I meant selling the awards for food.  You know, because they were so broke.

Didn't Atari make more copies of Pac-Man than there were systems made?  Or was it systems sold?  Either way I don't see how any one with even the slightest business training would do something so dumb.  Hell I don't see how any person who managed to survive until adulthood would do something so dumb.

[Syl]

The game looks good, i think i'll rent first however.

[KDR_11k]

m_c: I knd of liked the 2600 Pac Man. Of course, I wasn't a good gamer back then, I never tried to find any patterns in the ghost movements.