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Sonys decision to launch Helldivers 2 across PlayStation 5 and PC has been a huge success, as it now ranks among the highest grossing Sony games ever.

If Helldivers 2s success wasnt clear enough, after topping the charts for two consecutive months in the UK, sales data in the US has sealed it as a Sony giant.

In data published by Circana, Helldivers 2 ranks as the best-selling premium game of the year so far, based on dollar sales across physical and digital, ahead of Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Dragons Dogma 2.

The majority of this success has come from the PC market rather than the PlayStation 5, with the co-op shooter topping the charts for the most played Steam titles based on monthly active users in March.

Industry analyst Mat Piscatella highlighted how successful it has been on PC, following its launch on February 8.

PC has been a huge part of the success of Helldivers 2 in the US, he wrote on Twitter. With PC, Helldivers 2 is already the seventh highest grossing Sony published game in history. Without PC it wouldnt currently rank among the top 20.

The success of Helldivers 2 will likely lead Sony to launch more exclusives simultaneously across PlayStation and PC in the future something the company has already talked about, as it looks to improve the companys profit margins.

Get ready for this to be the norm, similar to the Xbox strategy of console + PC. Doesn't bother me in the slightest, if we can get more fun as hell games like Helldivers 2 I am fine with it. This game really has done tremendously well and, as a fan of the first one, that pleases me a lot. I think the other benefit and reason for it selling so well is how easy the cross play is. Being able to play from PS5 and PC at launch and the great word of mouth could easily have caused it to balloon as much as it did.

Meanwhile, Payday 3 is still a piece of shit.

Here are some other fun facts:

In Europe, the United Kingdom, and Canada, Helldivers 2 was the best-selling game of February 2024.

By 24 February 2024, the game was estimated to have sold over 3 million units and became the most actively played game on the PlayStation Network, surpassing Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 and Fortnite. By 15 March 2024, Helldivers 2 was estimated to have sold 8 million units and reached 450,000 concurrent players on Steam.

Helldivers 2 continued to be the best selling game in the UK for the second month in a row, and also managed to drive up video game sales by 26% in the country.

Sony managed to seemingly strike gold with at least one live service game. Arrowhead definitely needs to work on stability though, they are on a tight update schedule and the issues are piling up.