{"id":593855,"date":"2026-08-15T07:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T07:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/593855\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T07:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T07:44:13","slug":"injustice-2-tops-9-million-units-sold-7-million-more-than-gods-among-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/593855\/","title":{"rendered":"Injustice 2 Tops 9 Million Units Sold\u20147 Million More than &#8220;Gods Among Us&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out the Injustice game series is a lesson in how concurrent player counts don&#8217;t necessarily predict a game&#8217;s commercial success. Despite only drawing a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/627270\/charts\/\" target=\"_blank\">peak concurrent Steam player count<\/a> of 2,131 players, the 2017 superhero game has sold 9 million units since launch. This was confirmed by the game&#8217;s co-creator, Ed Boon in a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/noobde.bsky.social\/post\/3msroit6c5s2t\" target=\"_blank\">post on Bluesky<\/a>, where he was responding to a fan trying to settle an argument about whether the Injustice series has been a &#8220;flop.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>This is significantly higher than the current <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vgchartz.com\/game\/232467\/injustice-2\/?region=All\" target=\"_blank\">~1.1-2 million unit sales estimates<\/a> for Injustice: Gods Among Us, which topped US sales charts for several months in a row following its launch. Injustice 3 was also leaked to be in active development by a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dexerto.com\/gaming\/injustice-3-confirmed-to-be-in-active-development-by-accidental-leak-3358891\/\" target=\"_blank\">leak in early 2026<\/a>, indicating that the series has been a financial success. For what it&#8217;s worth, game sales targets have changed drastically since Gods Among Us launched, with AAA launches now expected to see millions of sales within the first few months of launch in order to be considered a success, and even then, that&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/347200\/ea-lays-off-battlefield-6-devs-across-multiple-studios-despite-record-profits-around-launch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">not necessarily enough to avoid developer layoffs<\/a> following high-profile launches.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/img\/46vQS5eS9hdq2TQ8.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-width=\"1280\" data-height=\"720\" data-fancybox=\"g351628\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/46vQS5eS9hdq2TQ8_thm.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/img\/Pa4sHCsUibWL0lDh.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-width=\"941\" data-height=\"960\" data-fancybox=\"g351628\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pa4sHCsUibWL0lDh_thm.jpg\" width=\"127\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It turns out the Injustice game series is a lesson in how concurrent player counts don&#8217;t necessarily predict&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-593855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}