Europe, it seems, welcomed Deus Ex: Human Revolution with open arms, while America looked in with a dubious frown.
Square Enix has confirmed that the game has sold through 2.18 million copies in US and Europe, which is good news.
But the majority of those were Euro sales, where 1.38 million have been snapped up, while only 800,000 North American gamers fancied a shot at the sci-fi action RPG.
The game released in Japan on October 20 but those numbers were not included in the report.
Deus Ex dominated Square's software sales for the last six months ending September 2011, with Dungeon Siege III behind it on 820,000 sales, followed by Dragon Quest 25th Anniversary Collection which did 350,000 sales in Japan.
Square released the first Human Revolution DLC, titled 'The Missing Link', on October 18, adding new environments, characters and added layers of conspiracy-solving, plus the chance to rebuild your augmentation set from scratch.
Comments
23 comments so far...
KMakawa on 6 Nov '11 said:
Thats because it didnt have enough arcade shooter, zombies or nazi's within it.
I only wish that it selling 2 million is enough for it to secure a sequel. When it all comes down to it, it is their loss for not picking it up. But I hope that does not impact Deus Ex's life span. Human Revolution was a well deserved purchase of mine to be quite honest.
Lsnake on 6 Nov '11 said:
Hey America, you suck for not picking up this fantastic game. I'm glad that Europe at least had the common sense to help out, this game deserves credit and sales.
MrPirtniw on 6 Nov '11 said:
One of the best games this generation... If not ever. Utterly fantastic - perhaps the plot was simply too complex for them? Their loss.
LedBetter on 6 Nov '11 said:
See the thing about people here in America. If you're not shooting Muslims or Russians then good luck selling your product.
Every good game that doesn't involve shooting Communists, Russians, Muslims pretty much bombs in America. Look at Deus Ex ( as mentioned here ), Witcher 2, etc. All the sales come from Western and Eastern Europe.
liquidsoap89 on 6 Nov '11 said:
Hey Europeans... Your population is multiple times larger than that of North America. Make a sales to population ratio and you'll find the ratio's higher in North America... It's pretty simple math really.
damoxuk on 6 Nov '11 said:
I'd hardly call 2.18 million a bomb...
Sales are relative.. it all depends on how much it costs to make the game + sales.
evilhippo on 6 Nov '11 said:
What do they mean by 'Europe'? Does they really mean the the whole continent? Or just the EU? Does that included UK and Ireland? What is the break down of sales in the countries where there was actually a localised version of DE:HR in the local language and ones where there was not?
This articles includes no links to sources, making it of marginal use to actually interpreting the significance of these numbers.
Sammy_bham on 6 Nov '11 said:
i wasnt overly mpressed with the game,
graphics = 9/10
mood/atmosphere/music = 10/10
stlye/presentation = 9/10
gameplay = 7/10
voice acting / characters = 6/10
story = 5/10
repeated playthroughs/longtivity = 1/10.
i liked a lot about the game, just not the parts that warrent 35 quid and me taking up hours of my life.
i felt like after the first 4 missions was just repeatng myself, and just seemed like it was lacking something... in my opinion anyways.
can see why it didnt do as well as A-listers.
MrPirtniw on 7 Nov '11 said:
Yeah, but you like CoD so I'm afraid you don't get an opinion.
sorry, couldn't resist.
The_KFD_Case on 7 Nov '11 said:
The US has ca. 312+ million registered inhabitants. Europe has around 400-500 million inhabitants - hardly "multiple times larger". Also, the US population is younger on average than Europe's which means that it is likely that there may be more gamers not just percentage wise, but perhaps in real numbers too. Either way, it seems the US gaming population, for whatever reasons, did not warm up to Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I'm glad it received a warm welcome in Europe and I am curious to know how it fared in Japan.
I would like to see a sequel. I'm playing through it on and off still, and I have not yet completed it. I like it and yet it doesn't quite grip me the way the original Deus Ex did. Perhaps the changes I've undergone as a person from back then to now have something to do with that. Perhaps part of it is also the perception I have that DE:HR is more linear than the original despite doing a solid job in offering more than one way to play the game by contemporary standards.
Athrun888 on 7 Nov '11 said:
It's always sad to see a gam-wait a second, over 2 million? Sounds like a hit to me. Still, not surprising it did better in Europe, that market is always more open to interesting ideas and games than the US is, it's why it got games like Xenoblade and the US isn't...
ericgrimm22 on 7 Nov '11 said:
I live in the USA and I loved this game immensely. It took me 35 hours to complete it on easy mode and i was genuinely sad when it was over, so i've already started game two on the hardest possible setting. This game has made my entire library become utterly unplayable lol. I've never played the first deus ex but I really hope they come out with another one in the upcoming years. I have to say this has become my all time favorite video game!!!!!!! LOVED IT!!!! Screw you europeans for just assuming us americans don't know what's good. You have to consider that we have soooo many different game franchises here that just suck up so much money, 1. all of the call of duty games. 2. the assassin's creed series. 3. Madden football, Tiger Woods golf, all of the 2k sports series' (football, baseball basketball). 4. world of warcraft (which i know isn't just the USA but I'm sure probably a large portion is) 5. Indie games are catching on at a wild-fire pace. 6. almost forgot about the rockstar games series like grand theft auto and l.a. noire. see? there is so much going on here in the US when it comes to gaming. I hope that deus ex sells more copies here, I hope that whatever it takes to ensure another sequel in the series comes to fruition. like i said....it was the best game i've ever played. peace and love from Cleveland, Ohio!
CalumB90 on 7 Nov '11 said:
Great to hear you enjoyed the game and I agreed with most of what you said, however I must stress that yes Rockstar games is an American publisher but the talent behind the GTA series is from the studio Rockstar North (formerly DMA Design) from my home town of Edinburgh in Scotland.
TheLastDodo on 7 Nov '11 said:
You are my favourite american at this very moment in time.
Fr33Kye on 7 Nov '11 said:
In my defense i was busy eating mcdonalds and crushing painkillers.
I'm my favorite american right now.
kimoak on 7 Nov '11 said:
Well my brother bought the game and he's American.. Well he is now anyway.
slick loose on 7 Nov '11 said:
All those games are released here in Europe too, just replace Maddden with FIFA. I'm not saying that Americans have not got taste (that would be a generalisation) but that just sounds like a (lame) excuse.
Sleepaphobic on 7 Nov '11 said:
That's totally because it wasn't a deep enough experience compared to super complex games like Gears and Halo.
Toasted_PSP on 7 Nov '11 said:
Population is irrelevant, the best you can hope to compare is console sales number in each region versus the sales of the game in those regions. It sold more in Europe even though the Europe sales region has less consoles sold than the Americas region.
PS3 and 360 sales in the Americas region 54.6million.
PS3 and 360 sales in the Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia region 47.3million.
Yet with more system sold in the US Deus only managed to sell to 800k North Americans while selling to 1.38million European gamers.
Uzi77 on 7 Nov '11 said:
Maths.
Codename21 on 7 Nov '11 said:
The only thing I want to know from this article, is that if 2million plus sales would green light another title in the franchise from the same team or not? And if so, what form will it take (for some reason I'm expected them to remake the original Deus Ex, but in the current engine....)
feeg86 on 7 Nov '11 said:
Picked this up for 16 quid at tesco last week. Very engrossing, great game. Love games that make you think carefully about your actions.
mufc-striker on 7 Nov '11 said:
For anyone still not got this, zavvi are selling it for 11.99