Portal 2 tops three million sales

By Fred Dutton Published 22 June, 2011

Can Valve sequel match original's tally?

Portal 2 has sold in excess of three million copies, developer Valve has announced.

According to Joystiq, studio president Gabe Newell made the announcement at the Games For Change event in New York earlier today.

He didn't mention whether that number takes into account Steam sales as well as PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, but he'd certainly have access to that data.

An impressive figure, but it's still got a way to go before it overhauls the original, which has sold around four million units on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 alone.

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Comments (18) Latest comment 11 months ago

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  • RoaringPanda #1 11 months ago

    I know that is a very large amount, but I imagined it would be more considering how god damn good that game is.

  • Eraysor #2 11 months ago

    Considering it's basically just a puzzle game and not a manshoot, it shows just how good Valve are!

  • Vortex808 #3 11 months ago

    Well deserved success. The best game of the year so far for me, but then you can pretty much always rely on Valve for gaming goodness- if not the emergence of HL2 Episode 3!

  • CaptainQuint #4 11 months ago

    Congrats to Valve, well deserved.

    GotY, easily.

  • Smoped #5 11 months ago

    Wait, either Portal: Still Alive sold four million downloads on Live, or you're comparing the sales of Portal 2 to The Orange Box, which some people might have bought for content other than Portal.

  • Subdominator #6 11 months ago

    Have to agree with first post, it is a bit low considering how good the game is and how many PS360 (105 million) there are. How do they count Portal 1 sales anyway? Orange Box plus Portal digital release?

    However I think Portal was better than Portal 2. Not only because of the story and it was all new, the puzzles were more interesting. In Portal 2 a lot of the times you just have to search for one of the two or three places where you can actually use the portal gun. In Portal everything was less linear and you could really experiment with different approaches, where in Portal 2 there basically is only one solution. And of course it's a shame they didn't include the challenge mode. I spent weeks trying to beat levels with even fewer steps. Even though the game was pretty short the challenge mode kept it interesting for a long time whereas Portal 2 is pretty much done once the credits roll.

  • Jon1292 #7 11 months ago

    When it gets a price cut, It will probably blast away Portal 1.
    Remember most of portals sales were from the standalone game which was only £15-20

  • FuzzyDuck #8 11 months ago

    I can see it topping 4 million.

    I had the single player blitzed the day after launch and was gonna return it for Mortal Kombat.

    It dawned on me that it's one of those ultra rare titles then when somebody asks "what's so great about videogames?", you show them this.

    As a gamer of 19 years, i owe it to myself to have this in my collection (oh, GotY contender for me too).

  • darkos87 #9 11 months ago

    Uhm yeah, a standalone game, will sell more than a collection of 5 games all priced at about 8 pounds each. I'm going to do the maths using an abbacus and come to you with that alright

  • Subdominator #10 11 months ago

    #7: No, they were not. Trials HD is the best-selling XBLA game at 1 million units. So Portal Still Alive is below that. 4 million total sales minus less than 1 million on XBLA make 3 million copies for the Orange Box on PC, PS3, 360. Steam would obviously inflate that number because the game was given out for 2 pounds and even for free during various promotions. But the most sales without Steam definitely came from the retail release of the Orange Box and not from the standalone game.

  • Shabbaranks #11 11 months ago

    Now give us half life 3.

  • Farzlepot #12 11 months ago

    Dear Valve,

    I hope all of these little side-projects of yours are merely providing the funding for the continued development of the next Half-Life.

    NOW QUIT EXPANDING YOUR HORIZONS AND GET BACK TO WORK ON EPISODE 3!

    Sincerely,

    Farzlepot

  • wayn3h #13 11 months ago

    What about when steam launched steam play and gave away copies of portal? i'm sure a fair few were snapped up then. do they count?

  • Dizzy #14 11 months ago

    >Trials HD is the best-selling XBLA game at 1 million units.

    2 million BTW.

  • Subdominator #15 11 months ago

    @Dizzy: No, the 2 million is for full versions and DLC downloads.

  • lockload #16 11 months ago

    The original was orange box not exactly the same seeing as it included so much

  • Jonny5Alive7 #17 11 months ago

    Are you comparing sales to the Orange Box? If so that's a daft comparison considering the other games included in there.

  • Smudge1983 #18 11 months ago

    Well deserved. Dam fine piece of gaming. This year is gonna be tough for GotY with Batman:AC, Battlefield 3, Unchartered 3 and Skyrim all on the horizon. 2011 best year for games so far?