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The game, developed by PlayStation-owned Insomniac Games, has won rave reviews since it was released on Friday for the PS5...
That extends to roughly 40 hours including side-content, a fairly typical length for video games, although some releases this year like Baldur's Gate 3 can potentially be played for hundreds of hours.. Spider-Man 2 has been praised for its representation of Puerto Rican culture, but there has been criticism after its flag was confused with that of Cuba in the main character's house...
Despite being the biggest physical launch of the year on PS5, the game has not yet reached the dizzying heights of the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, which sold more than 10 million copies in just three days...
But the physical sales of Spider-Man 2 only make up part of the total 2.5 million copies sold - which Christopher Dring, head of gaming news site GamesIndustry.biz, said would have mainly come digitally...
"The market was heading in this direction before the pandemic hit - in 2019 in the UK, around half of games were sold digitally while half were sold in physical stores, but since 2020, that number has jumped and over 70% of games are downloaded...
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