{"id":898621,"date":"2026-09-20T06:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T06:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/898621\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T06:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T06:56:14","slug":"wolverine-sells-well-fixes-blue-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/898621\/","title":{"rendered":"“Wolverine” Sells Well, Fixes Blue Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Insomniac Games<\/p>\n

Within its first few days, \u201cMarvel\u2019s Wolverine\u201d has reportedly sold through 1.9 million copies with 1 million of that in pre-launch digital pre-orders \u2013 generating $130 million in revenue according to third-party analytics firm Alinea Analytics (via Rhys Elliot<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Of these revenues, reportedly 22.9% were physical. These estimates don\u2019t include unsold retail copies, which publishers often report in their sold-in numbers. It is already reportedly the top-performing new PlayStation Studios game on PS5 this year.<\/p>\n

To put those numbers in perspective, the title has apparently already passed lifetime PS5 copies sold and revenues for \u201cDeath Stranding 2\u201d (1.8 million copies, $129 million), \u201cMarathon\u201d (1.8 million copies, $60 million), \u201cMLB The Show\u201d (1.5 million copies, $99 million), \u201cMarvel T\u014dkon: Fighting Souls\u201d (740,000 copies, $49 million), and \u201cSaros\u201d (510,000, $40 million).<\/p>\n

The top market was the U.S. which accounted for 53% of the player base, followed by the UK (7%), France (5%), and Canada (4%). First-party numbers from Sony PlayStation have not been revealed.<\/p>\n

Armed with an apparent $305 million budget though, the title will need to sell well in the months and years to come to be profitable for the developer.<\/p>\n

The sales numbers arrive as developer Insomniac Games has already sent out an update that reduces the opacity of the \u2018blue gas\u2019 scent trail elements that appear in select sequences and have been a major point of contention in places online.<\/p>\n

They added a posting<\/a> about the update that they are \u201cexploring toggleable options for a future update\u201d. The scent trails, nicknamed \u2018fart gas\u2019 online, have become a point of contention.<\/p>\n

As more people play the game, parts of social media have become a battlefield, with content creators on TikTok, X, and YouTube facing significant backlash for exaggerating or outright fabricating issues to stir outrage, from debunked AI slop signage to selective clips suggesting the game \u2018plays itself\u2019.<\/p>\n

Others are just getting fed up with the gaming discourse itself, which is being heavily impacted not just by long-running culture wars and console wars, but by increasing distrust due to \u2018financially incentivised online mauling \u2018, as one user on the Reddit forum<\/a> for the game explains.<\/p>\n

These include social media monetisation models where algorithms make ragebait profitable, to online prediction markets (considered gambling by many governments) where you can effectively bet against the success of a title in various ways (eg. Metacritic score, revenue, etc.).<\/p>\n

Interestingly, the game has racked up a 4.8\/5 on Sony\u2019s own PlayStation Store from over 34,000 reviews \u2013 a score that can only be made by those who\u2019ve actually purchased the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Insomniac Games Within its first few days, \u201cMarvel\u2019s Wolverine\u201d has reportedly sold through 1.9 million copies with 1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,142132,134],"class_list":["post-898621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}