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Forums - Sales Discussion - Valve: L4D pushes 2.5 million at retail!

heruamon on 27 March 2009

Strong numbers here for a fun game, and this number only tracks retail sales, not steam, which is where a vast majority of PC gamers got their copy.  It's going to be interesting to see when L4D 2 is launched, since this game performed far stronger than I originally anticipated.  Sure, I expected something over a million on the 360, and about the same of the PC, but Valve has got to very quite happy with it, and this was going directly into the maw of COD:WaW and Gears of War 2…that’s probably the most impressive stat about this performance!

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/57883

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TheThunder on 27 March 2009

L4D one if not the best titles on the 360

looking forward to the DLC



shinyuhadouken on 27 March 2009

Very fun title, but I got bored of it quick. Only 4 maps...wtf?



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thanny on 27 March 2009

^^ 20 "maps", 4 campaigns... versus has awesome replayability.

also, the survival pack is coming out in the next few weeks. good job like normal VALVe!



 

 

 

 

 

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Oyvoyvoyv on 27 March 2009

Hmm... Is that 2.5M across PC + X360? I believe it is.

 

If so, it's only sold 500K on PC (retail).

 

Unless this is Americas only (which I doubt), that's rather dissapointing. Team Fortress 2 sold 3 million retail (if I recall correctly).

 

Of course, it won't stop at 500K, but it probably won't beat 1M.



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shinyuhadouken on 27 March 2009
thanny said:
^^ 20 "maps", 4 campaigns... versus has awesome replayability.

also, the survival pack is coming out in the next few weeks. good job like normal VALVe!

I consider 1 campaign 1 map.

 



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heruamon on 27 March 2009
Oyvoyvoyv said:

Hmm... Is that 2.5M across PC + X360? I believe it is.

 

If so, it's only sold 500K on PC (retail).

 

Unless this is Americas only (which I doubt), that's rather dissapointing. Team Fortress 2 sold 3 million retail (if I recall correctly).

 

Of course, it won't stop at 500K, but it probably won't beat 1M.

 

 

It doesn't include steam, as Valve is VERY secretive about that information, but we know it's posted monster numbers on the service...like that 3000% increase in sales when they did that sale a while back.  Even if the game was only selling 20-30K before that...3000% would be massive!



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The Anarchyz on 27 March 2009

2.5M at retail, and one of those copies is mine (I still don't trust Steam with full games), it's really good, between PC retail, 360 retail and Steam, this game has to go over 4 million already, i'll even guess more than 5...



Oyvoyvoyv on 27 March 2009
heruamon said:
Oyvoyvoyv said:

Hmm... Is that 2.5M across PC + X360? I believe it is.

 

If so, it's only sold 500K on PC (retail).

 

Unless this is Americas only (which I doubt), that's rather dissapointing. Team Fortress 2 sold 3 million retail (if I recall correctly).

 

Of course, it won't stop at 500K, but it probably won't beat 1M.

 

 

It doesn't include steam, as Valve is VERY secretive about that information, but we know it's posted monster numbers on the service...like that 3000% increase in sales when they did that sale a while back.  Even if the game was only selling 20-30K before that...3000% would be massive!

Yeah, I know it's retail only.

 

However, here's the retail data of some other titles.

Half-Life: 9.3 million units
Half-Life 2: 6.5 million units
Counter-Strike: 4.2 million units
The Orange Box: 3 million units
Counter-Strike Condition Zero: 2.9 million units
Counter-Strike Source: 2.1 million units
Counter-Strike Xbox Port: 1.5 million units
Half-Life 2 Episode 1: 1.4 million units
Half-Life Opposing Force: 1.1 million units
Half-Life Blue Shift: 800,000 units

That's as of sometime in December.

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=52001

 



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