{"id":90303,"date":"2026-09-29T07:49:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T11:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90303"},"modified":"2026-09-29T08:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:36:31","slug":"marvels-wolverine-is-holding-its-own-against-playstations-live-service-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90303","title":{"rendered":"Marvel\u2019s Wolverine Is Holding Its Own Against PlayStation\u2019s Live-Service Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/marvels-wolverine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Marvel&#8217;s Wolverine<\/a> might not be a critical hit, but it&#8217;s doing surprisingly well commercially. The new superhero adventure from Insomniac Games faced stiff opposition from new releases and established live-service titles at launch, but according to the analytics firm Circana and its engagement tracker,\u00a0Marvel&#8217;s Wolverine broke a live-service stranglehold on the PlayStation charts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the week ending September 19, Marvel&#8217;s Wolverine ranked seventh on Circana&#8217;s\u00a0Top 10 Titles by weekly active users in the US chart. Sandwiched between Marvel Rivals (sixth place) and Minecraft (eighth place), that&#8217;s a good start for the game, which is the only single-player title in the top 10&#8211;although Minecraft players might disagree. &#8220;The average US Marvel&#8217;s Wolverine player engaged with the title for 14.2 hours during the week, according to Circana&#8217;s Player Engagement Tracker,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/matpiscatella.bsky.social\/post\/3mwljcjmew224\">Circana&#8217;s Mat Piscatella wrote<\/a>. &#8220;This ranked in the top 20 across all titles on PlayStation for the week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/matpiscatella.bsky.social\/post\/3mwliydz3wc24  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While NBA 2K27, Fortnite, and Roblox remained on top, seventh place is\u00a0still a\u00a0relatively impressive feat for a game like Marvel&#8217;s Wolverine, which\u00a0is mostly a one-and-done experience. Unlike Marvel&#8217;s Spider-Man and its bustling open-world slice of Manhattan, there&#8217;s little reason to return to it beyond a New Game Plus mode that unlocks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marvel&#8217;s Wolverine might not be a critical hit, but it&#8217;s doing surprisingly well commercially. The new superhero adventure from Insomniac Games faced stiff opposition from new releases and established live-service titles at launch, but according to the analytics firm Circana and its engagement tracker,\u00a0Marvel&#8217;s Wolverine broke a live-service stranglehold on the PlayStation charts. For the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":90305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90306,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90303\/revisions\/90306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}