Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham City sold 12.5 million copies and generated over $ 600 million (£ 469 million), according to the LinkedIn profile of a Warner Bros. employee.
As seen by our friends in PC Gamer, the eagle-eyed Twitter user @ bogorad222 He discovered the statistics not in a press release but on the LinkedIn profile of a former global franchise marketing manager who was working for the publisher at the time.
Batman: Arkham City sold 12.5 million units, generated $ 600 + million in revenue. The last reported figure was 6 million sent in February 2012. https://t.co/lBdDrVFosH pic.twitter.com/TWPfwJjMUd July 25, 2020
While sales figures were never formally shared publicly, the profile indicates that the employee “strategically marketed an AAA lifecycle campaign to deliver more than 12.5 million units” and “franchise management across divisions generated $ 600 million in income”. The profile also adds that “they managed a joint marketing association valued at $ 5 million.”
The latest figures that we can find online came in February 2012 courtesy of GamespotHe said the sequel had shipped six million copies in the first four months after its release in October 2011. It now appears that Arkham City has more than doubled that in its first year, “delivering,” which might not be exactly the same as “selling,” of course, $ 12.5 million for 2012. It’s still unclear how many copies the game has sold over its lifetime.
Batman: Arkham City was the follow-up to critically acclaimed Batman: Arkham Asylum, and became a favorite in its own right, too, averaging one reviewer. Metacritical score 91 on PC, 94 on Xbox 360 and 96 on PlayStation 3. GamesRadar + review also loved the action-adventure game, giving you the coveted score 5/5 and stating, “Batman: Arkham Asylum was the best superhero game of all time. The sequel, Batman: Arkham City, is five times bigger and a billion times better. You do the math.”
“There is very little space and much more to admire,” we wrote at the time. “The epic and fast-paced music. Possibly best graphics of the year. The predictable stellar voice acting, but with a particularly perverse performance by Mark Hamill as the Joker and an especially nice shot by Nolan North on the Penguin.”
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