Deus Ex Sells Over 600k Units In Opening Week

By Nick Baumfeld
Posted on September 2, 2011 AT 12:00am

THE BUZZ: Deus Ex: Human Revolution has managed to ship over 600,000 units during its first week of sales on all platforms.

WHAT WE KNOW: According to estimated worldwide sales figures that have just been released Deus Ex sold around 656,000 units during its first week on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. The Xbox 360 version of the game sold best with around 348,000 units, the PlayStation 3 sold 228,000 units and the PC version managed 80,000.

EGM’s TAKE: This is an impressive figure for any game during its first week, however the major question is, what was Square-Enix’s sales target in order for the game to break even?

If you have tried Deus Ex did you enjoy it?

Bio: Nick Baumfeld has been involved in the video game industry for a good 12 years. He has seen the industry from all view points and has a background in websites, website integration and social media. Nick pioneered the online video game rental business back in the day, moved forward into online video game trading and then moved viral with the well received Video Games Application on Facebook. Today, he has joined up with EGM founder Steve Harris to create something truly unique and special; EGMNOW, a community dedicated to all manner of gamers.

Gaming MO: Nick is a first person shooter type of gamer and enjoys heated bouts of Halo with friends and family (even while being schooled by his children).

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