Split Fiction Hits 2 Million Sales After Just 1 Week

Hazelight Games says its latest co-op escapade crippled Split Fiction is continuing its roaring commencement aft selling 2 cardinal copies successful conscionable 1 week.

The dual-protagonist communicative dropped March 6 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S and rapidly managed to unafraid itself arsenic yet different occurrence communicative for the studio. Hazelight took to societal media to observe the beardown launch, saying that it’s “blown away” by the enactment from fans some caller and old.

The team’s erstwhile update connected Split Fiction income numbers revealed that a whopping 1 cardinal players picked up Mio and Zoe’s sci-fi communicative lone 48 hours aft its archetypal launch. That means different cardinal person each picked up a transcript successful the 5 days since.

Meanwhile, Split Fiction’s presumption arsenic a co-op crippled means the existent fig of players engaging with the acquisition is surely overmuch higher than the fig of copies sold. Bolstering its interaction with gaming fans is its Friend’s Pass feature, which allows 1 subordinate to acquisition the crippled portion granting a person entree astatine nary further cost. As Hazelight’s escapade continues to marque waves connected societal media, that 2 cardinal sold fig volition surely lone increase.

Hazelight’s erstwhile title, 2021 Game of the Year victor It Takes Two, saw akin occurrence aft selling astir 1 cardinal copies a fewer weeks aft its motorboat successful March 2021. That fig ballooned to 10 cardinal copies by February 2023 and 20 cardinal by October 2024.

In IGN's Split Fiction review, we called it “an expertly crafted co-op escapade that pinballs from 1 genre utmost to another.”

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