Warner Brothers has declared Batman: Arkham City to be a triumph at stores, stating that 4.6 million copies of the game were shipped worldwide last week. This is, of course, a bit of subtle trickery on the PR wordsmiths over there, as this number is indicative only of how many copies are available for purchase, not how many have actually been sold.
I don't think they're putting the cart before the horse here. The game is going to sell exceptionally well if our review is any indication. I just always feel a little weird about these press releases whenever they come out. Sure, you want to pimp the success of your game, but bragging about how many units you've made has always seemed to me like a silly way to go about it.
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11:00 AM on 10.25.2011 | 
I think, maybe. Could be wrong.
Not to mention the insane amount of challenge rooms.
@Piggy - Partially. If those shipped units don't sell, they won't receiving any additional revenue from restock requests.
As for the ending, it was meh... Better than Arkham Asylum's, but still could have been way better.
I'd stick that in a Spidey photo, but I think that bandwagon broke.
It's also a concrete number, unlike the number of units sold at retail, which obviously depends on information from retailers and some level of estimation.
Suck it, EA.
Because that information would actually be relevant to how popular the game is and how well the game is selling. I honestly don't even care to see that information, but this shipping stat is beyond useless.
ugh, touman, what the fuck are you talking about? Make sense. My post was that I don't complain about the use of shipped units, and you complain about that? Are you stupid?
Exactly. Consumers have spoken with their dollar and they have said that they don't mind being abused and taken advantage of by large publishers. I expect to see most, if not all AAA games use online passes for single player content now. Oh well, at least there are enough small publishers and studios still making games and distributing them in such a way as to not alienate or abuse the market to keep me busy since I will never play or buy games like Arkham City or Rage.
It's a sad state of affairs these days.
Well its a good thing your the one missing out.
I do agree with you, it is a sad time. I'll support games like: Skyrim, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Mario, because there not doing online passes.
It is the companies right to do it. I just won't support it.
Stay classy guys keep up the fight against online passes
It's the best game I've ever played in my life. I don't give a shit if Hitler programmed it all by his evil self.