Helldivers 2 was the best-selling game of February in the US and the best-selling game so far this year.
Asshared on Xby Mat Piscatella of Circana (formerly NPD), the co-op shooter took the top spot in the best-selling premium games, best-sellingPlayStationgames and most-played onSteamcharts for the month.
Despite its February 8 release date, it also topped the charts for the best-selling premium games in the US for the year to date, taking both January and February sales into account.
Piscatella also pointed out that more copies ofHelldivers 2were sold on Steam thanPS5, withPCsales accounting for nearly 60% of copies sold.
Helldivers’ combined PS5 and PC sales mean its total dollar sales for its launch month were “the 7th-highest total ever achieved by aSony-published title in the US”, according to Circana.
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The charts also showed thatFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirthwas the second best-selling game of February, making it the fourth best-selling game of the year (behind Helldivers 2,Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3andTekken 8).
Earlier this week it was reported thatHelldivers 2 was also Europe’s best-selling game for February, with PC sales accounting for 56% of the game’s sales in that region.
While Sony has not released official sales figures for Helldivers 2, the game has regularly exceeded 430,000 concurrent players on Steam, perSteamDB.
According to TD Cowen analyst Doug Creutz,Helldivers 2 has likely sold more than 8 million copiessince its release last month. “We believe the game has performed well ahead of expectations,” he wrote in a note this month.
The game’s breakout success has led to speculation that its developer, Stockholm-based Arrowhead Game Studio, could be acquired by PlayStation – somethingthe studio itself has denied.
