Dead Island 2 is \u2018the biggest launch\u2019 ever for devs Deep Silver after hitting 2 million sales Dambuster StudiosDead Island 2 has become \u201cthe biggest launch\u201d in history for its creators Plaion and Deep Silver, with the game confirmed to have already sold more than two million copies since launch. Dead Island 2\u2019s release was a \u201cminor miracle\u201d, or at least that\u2019s what we called it in our review of the game. Since its announcement in 2014, the game bounced around different studios until Deep Silver\u2019s Dambuster Studios were given their chance to develop the sequel. Little did the studio know they would be creating their publisher\u2019s biggest game to date. Dead Island 2 was not predicted to be one of 2023\u2019s largest releases, yet it somehow was big enough to sell one million copies within three days of its release. As a result of that, it has become its devs and publisher\u2019s biggest release to date, with updated sales numbers revealing Dead Island 2 has sold over two million copies. In Embracer Groups Q4 financial report, the parent company of Deep Silver, they announced that Dead Island 2 heralded the publisher\u2019s biggest launch to date. \u201cCurrently, the game has achieved an impressive milestone of over two million units sold. When measured over the initial seven-day sales period, Dead Island 2 has become the largest launch in both units sold and revenue generated in the history of Deep Silver.\u201d they wrote. Dead Island 2 has already sold 2 million copies Dambuster Studios has not had the biggest games of the given years they have been in the industry. With previous titles Homefront: The Revolution and Chorus failing to make waves. Which is why its success was quite the moment for its devs and publisher. \u201cThe game\u2019s performance has far surpassed the management\u2019s initial expectations\u201d the report read. It is quite clear in the report that the success of Dead Island 2 was not expected, but a welcomed surprise given Embracer\u2019s \u201cquiet Q4\u201d, as they call it. The announcement of Dead Island 2\u2019s surprise success comes after Embracer\u2019s CEO announced a mystery deal worth $2 billion fell apart the night before the Q4 financial report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dead Island 2 is \u2018the biggest launch\u2019 ever for devs Deep Silver after hitting 2 million sales Dambuster StudiosDead Island 2 has become \u201cthe biggest launch\u201d in history for its creators Plaion and Deep Silver, with the game confirmed to have already sold more than two million copies since launch. Dead Island 2\u2019s release was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}