Batman: Arkham City's worldwide sales

By Robert Purchese Published 25 October, 2011

Ships 4.6 million units in a week.

Batman: Arkham City has shipped more than 4.6 million units worldwide in one week, Warner Bros. has announced.

The "week one sales figure" (shipped, surely?) is apparently double that of previous game, Batman: Arkham Asylum.

Batman: Arkham City was released for PS3 and Xbox 360 on 18th October in the US, and 21st October in Europe.

The PC version will arrive on 18th November.

Predictably, given the numbers above, Batman: Arkham City romped to the top of the UK video games chart yesterday.

Eurogamer's Batman: Arkham City video talkthrough.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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Comments (26) Latest comment 7 months ago

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  • tajd #1 7 months ago

    :( i want a good spiderman man game

    give theese guys the spiderman franchise

  • telboy007 #2 7 months ago

    What was that spiderman game (fairly recent) where each level seemed to be a boss fight? I remember the sandman one being pretty good fun. Didn't seem that bad.

  • Razz #3 7 months ago

    Or perhaps a Turltes game? It'd another money spinner though... you'll only get one turtle, Raphael. Leonardo comes as locked single player content for first time purchases or (now increased) a £20 pass, and Donatello and Michelangelo will come later in DLC packs, both at 16kb each.

  • Beano #4 7 months ago

    B:AC deserves to sell more copies than BF3 and MW3 together. (will never happen of course)

  • ZizouFC #5 7 months ago

    Well deserved!

  • Syrette #6 7 months ago

    Anyone else suddenly feel the need to facelift bar?

  • evnewell #7 7 months ago

    Honestly, well done Rocksteady! You totally deserve it. This is one of the best games I've played this gen, and it totally dwarfs the original.

    I guess this means we're going to get a batman 3.

  • Beano #8 7 months ago

    Now that EG redesigned the site, why the hell didn't they implement a system to keep the spammers out?

    JESUS!!

  • andisart #9 7 months ago

    amazing achievment, well done!

  • Markitron #10 7 months ago

    Game was amazing. Just hope they resist the pressure from Warner to do a tie in to the next superman movie

  • mattrix33 #11 7 months ago

    It is a shame Rocksteady are a Warner company and can never have the spiderman license,because Arkham city is nothing short of utter brilliance.
    It is as a avid Batman comics and graphic novel reader nigh on perfect.

    Perhaps they could look at a superman game..?? Warner hold the rights to that franchise too

  • HairyEngineer #12 7 months ago

    Absolutely top-notch game so far. Rocksteady are easily one of the best UK studios.

  • Zozzilla #13 7 months ago

    Holy high sales figures, Batman!

  • darkmorgado #14 7 months ago

    @tajd

    Sod Spider-man, give me a good X-men game!

  • Hindle #15 7 months ago

    Post deleted at 23:04:43 04-04-2012

  • INSOMANiAC #16 7 months ago

    Feel sorry for the people without internet connections that missed a chunk of that game.

  • Xensor #17 7 months ago

    If i was Marvel, i would be banging down their door to do a game based on Iron Man or something :)

  • lucky_jim #18 7 months ago

    I'd really like them to do a game based on [insert favourite superhero here].

  • Windypops #19 7 months ago

    Good game, but a shame they decided to hobble its second-hand value. After being offered six quid trade-in for Deus Ex, getting this and finding it's basically broken until you download some content, I'm feeling distinctly jaded about the boxed game industry. They truly deserve every last bit of piracy perpetrated against them and I hope everyone involved in the making of this game dies in a fire*.

    *May be hyperbole but, y'know, TWATS.

  • Vice.Destroyer #20 7 months ago

    I know you are angry about the fact that they have hobbled the second hand sales of this game, windypops. But even you must understand that any money they can stop going into their own coffers, rather than into other coffers, can help stop Rocksteady going the way of Bizarre Creations.

    Even with you being primed for a bargain, you surely cannot want that?

  • abot #21 7 months ago

    Well deserved.
    Edited by abot at 25/10/11 @ 18:54

  • landlock #22 7 months ago

    @Windypops might wanna try Ebay or something. I managed to sell both Deus Ex and Driver: San Francisco for £29.99 after I was finished with them.

  • Windypops #23 7 months ago

    @Vice.Destroyer I know, I know; a good developer deserves to do well, fair enough. But they should do well on the merit of their game, rather than booby-trapping the market. Plenty of other industries can sustain a sizeable second-hand market, so gaming should be no different. It should be illegal to sabotage something in such a way that its value is substantially decreased.

  • Windypops #24 7 months ago

    @landlock I hate ebay with such a passion that I would gladly buy tickets to watch everyone involved in its creation get eaten by wolves. Not really, but, actually yes, REALLY.

  • AnsemsApprentice #25 7 months ago

    I'm really disappointed with the game; not what I expected at all, but it's clear the majority think it's brilliant, and I hope it sells incredibly well.

  • StooMonster #26 7 months ago

    But when is it going to be available on Steam in UK?

    It's another one of those available (or avaialble to pre-order) elsewhere but not in UK games.

    Why?