Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Sells 7 Million in Less Than a Year — and You Can See Why Space Marine 3 Was Confirmed So Soon

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 has sold a immense 7 cardinal copies successful little than a year, steadfast Focus Entertainment has announced.

The Saber Interactive-developed Space Marine 2 launched successful aboriginal September 2024, which means it deed the 7 cardinal copies sold people successful conscionable implicit 9 months.

Space Marine 2 was an instant hit, selling 4.5 cardinal successful conscionable implicit a month. Indeed, Space Marine 2 has done truthful good it “changes everything” for Saber, Chief Creative Officer Tim Willits told IGN soon aft the crippled came out.

As a result, it was a large fiscal occurrence for Warhammer 40,000 proprietor Games Workshop. CEO Kevin Rountree has said it contributed important royalty gross to the tabletop company's concern past year.

Focus and Saber amazed immoderate Space Marine 2 fans erstwhile it announced Space Marine 3 was successful improvement backmost successful March, fractional a twelvemonth aft the crippled came out. But fixed the immense income you tin spot wherefore the task was greenlit truthful soon.

"Space Marine 2 has proven to beryllium a transformative crippled for Saber," Matthew Karch, CEO of Saber Interactive, said astatine the time.

"It is the culmination of everything we person learned astir crippled improvement successful our 25 years successful the business. We are present starting to make Space Marine 3, a crippled that carries with it tremendous expectations from our rapidly expanding fanbase. While we volition proceed to enactment and turn the Space Marine 2 beingness implicit the coming years, we volition instrumentality each our learnings and use them to an adjacent bigger and much spectacular crippled for the 3rd installment. We presumption this arsenic an accidental to make a existent emotion missive to the Warhammer 40.000 universe."

Still, Focus and Saber had to enactment retired a connection reassuring players of its committedness to Space Marine 2, which is inactive moving done its twelvemonth 1 roadmap of content.

Without spoiling the Space Marine 2 campaign, it powerfully suggests a continuation (IGN has reported connected the force faction we’ll astir apt spot successful Space Marine 3).

In the shorter term, Space Marine 2 is owed to get the Siege Update (Patch 8) precise soon. It makes a large limb alteration not for equilibrium reasons, but due to the fact that it’s conscionable really, truly cool.

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