SCi have announced that Kane & Lynch has sold over 1 million copies worldwide at retail.
“We anticipate a positive sales trend to continue through the remainder of FY08 and for Kane and Lynch to firmly establish itself as another key franchise for the Group,” said SCi in a statement.
UK-based SCi added that Kane and Lynch's sales-to-date for the comparable period have exceeded those of 2006’s Hitman Blood Money.
vgchartz has this at 560,000 copies sold or 56DKP, above what we are predicting. apparently it doesn't matter how bad a game is, if you put enough marketing dollars into it, it will sell.
"vgchartz is an independent site who bases their numbers on a small pool of data, which is known to be inaccurate, only use loosely as a guide"
"Skulking quietly onto Xbox Live today was a demo for that game everyone just loves to douse in hatorade, Kane & Lynch. The demo's a pinch over 500MB, features one level, where you climb down a skyscraper and shoot some guys up, and you can play it in either single-player or co-op. Remember: the PR shitstorm surrounding Kane & Lynch wasn't the game's fault, nor the fault of its developers. May as well give it a shot."
Thanks for the votes Just_Ben it wasn't really that much work, I just had a little extra time and felt like doing some housekeeping for the exchange. I'd also like to rewrite some of the game summaries but that would be a big project. Please also bid up everyone else who's helped before me.
@Gaara42, I must concur that the advertising has been heavy on this one. Remember, there many gamers who do not read reviews and do buy games solely based on advertising.
I was thinking of 50DKP as a minimum, sorry if that wasn't evident. Even if it was a below average game, its advertising made up for it and this will move many more copies than people think, in part because Eidos wants this to be a hit.
Seems a little early to declare future sales will only be 200k more when the last tracked weeks in US/EU according to VG show combined sales of 100k units.
Why do you think it will drop so fast especially during Christmas time (when parents are buying the heavily advertised but maybe not that great titles?)...
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