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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Tops 5 Million Players

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Tops 5 Million Players - Sales

by William D'Angelo , posted on 29 November 2024 / 2,069 Views

Publisher Focus Entertainment and developer Saber Interactive have announced Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 has surpassed five million players.

This figure is up from 4.5 million players on October 16, 2024, two million on September 10, 2024.

"5 million Space Marines have joined our ranks to purge Xenos & Chaos!" said Focus Entertainment. "Huge thanks to everyone who's joined the fight. It’s been incredible to see the community grow (and to keep seeing it grow)! Here’s to many more battles ahead."

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 released for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam on September 9. It was also available in early access four days earlier starting September 5.


A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.


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14 Comments
Shikamo (on 29 November 2024)

Gigachad game

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JRPGfan (on 30 November 2024)

This wasn't in any subscription service right? so those are likely 5million buys.
Havn't played but only heard good things. Combat is supposedly really tight in this.

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DekutheEvilClown JRPGfan (on 30 November 2024)

Players and sales are not one for one. There used to be a website called GamStat that was able to track exact player numbers on PSN and generally games had about 20-40% more players than the official sales numbers. This is because second hand sales generate more players, along with borrowing games from friends, account sharing and multiple accounts in the same household with one copy of the game.

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JRPGfan DekutheEvilClown (on 30 November 2024)

But today with digital.... I guess thats alot less than it used to be back then right?

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G2ThaUNiT JRPGfan (on 30 November 2024)

Big enough to warrant the devs saying players instead of sales it seems. Marketing carefully chooses the words they use.

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DekutheEvilClown JRPGfan (on 01 December 2024)

Probably it is less now, and this game does best on Steam I believe.

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Mystro-Sama (on 29 November 2024)

This was what the Warhammer IP needed to kickstart it.

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Leynos (on 29 November 2024)

Second fave game if the year and deserved.

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G2ThaUNiT (on 29 November 2024)

Game reminds me so much of the original Gears of War trilogy era (minus the cover system) making it feel like a game from a bygone era. Deserves all its success and more!

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Leynos G2ThaUNiT (on 29 November 2024)

Same

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Koragg (on 29 November 2024)

So happy this game found success.

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jvmkdg (on 29 November 2024)

my goty

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NightF0x73 (on 29 November 2024)

A well-deserved success!
The game is fun, beautiful and very well optimized, whatever the platform.

Well done to the devs!

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Azzanation (on 30 November 2024)

Can't believe this was snubbed in the game awards.

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