Brink Sold 2.5 Million Copies

Global sales for developer Splash Damage's online-focused shooter Brink has reportedly sold over 2 million copies to date.

The sales figure comes from a recent Gamasutra interview with CEO Paul Wedgwood who said the game was successful for the company.

[Outside_ofthe_Box]

Boy was this a game a disappointment for me. This was one of those games that looked soooo damn good on paper, but ultimately failed to live up to expectations.

Glad to see a new IP like this sell well despite it's short comings.

[OC_MurphysLaw]

I think it was also a case of the developer selling us a promise that didn't quite live up to expectation. I think it ultimately failed on the single player being nothing more than bot matches from the MP.

Truly disappointing.

[MrBeatdown]

Definitely. It didn't come anywhere close to what I was expecting, but I did have fun with it. I really enjoyed the movement system. I thought the character design and back story was good too. I wouldn't mind a sequel with a dedicated single-player campaign and greater focus on the story.

I think it's biggest problem was the lack of players. I'm surprised it sold so many copies because I think I encountered maybe ten other players in the time it took me to get the platinum trophy.

[ginsunuva]

I saw it coming. I looked at a couple gameplay sessions and I instantly knew it was gonna be decent, but fail to live up to what the blind gamers in the comments were raving about.

Same thing happened with Rage. I was saying it looked decent but everyone was like "It's teh idz! They invents the fps!"

[lelo2play]

Unbelievable that a piece of s**t game like this sells more then 2.5 Million copies.

[MysticStrummer]

This is another entry in the "Sales Do Not Equal Quality" file. I had such high hopes for this game. Brink and Dead Island were my two biggest letdowns this gen.

[ABizzel1]

Well it was selling for $10 new at many locations. If anything it goes to show that price is the greatest factor in determining if a game sales or not.

[DA_SHREDDER]

Price is everything. Nintendo knows this and that's why they always pwn newbs.

[ABizzel1]

Well it was selling for $10 new at many locations. If anything it goes to show that price is the greatest factor in determining if a game sales or not. And I guess graphics as well.

[TheoreticalParticle]

It's also another entry in the "EPIC VGChartz Fails" scrapbook.

Publisher reports: 2.5 million sales, VGBSChartz: 1.59.

Only off by a million, but I guess they're the best we got, so we should continue relying on a source that's off every single time a publisher releases sales.

[Voxelman]

they don't count digital and that is likely shipped not sold to consumers. Still VGC has never been all that accurate.

[turgore]

Sad...any chance they will make a good sequel ?

[honkyjesus]

Bought it, liked it.

Funny how major franchises with broken online day one never catch heat for it.

[brettyd]

Yea but this game Is still broken...

[Hicken]

Actually, it isn't.

[brettyd]

Last time i played about a month ago, the PS3 version was a mess. Texture pop in, lag...

[ritsuka666]

Sad this.. this only show gamers in this gen have shit taste...

[Baka-akaB]

It sold way more than it should ... but i wouldnt beat my chest proudly if i were them . IF it sold well they wouldnt be announcing it so late . ANd it's unlikely it met expectations , in both quality of the game and sales

[RBdrift]

2.5 million??? Makes sense,I have seen this game mixed in the
$5 to $10 bins at a few stores already.

[Summons75]

I enjoyed it even with the lack of story, I knew the focus was online anyway. What was disappointing to me was the fact call of duty players would join the game not focus on objectives then bitch because they lost, but the gameplay was great and the few matches that people actually focused on objectives were great as well.

[Genecalypse]

How the hell did this horrible game sell 2.5 million? My god some games cant even break 100k. Wow

[seanpitt23]

Really it must of been like what I did buy it thinking how good it looked from the CGI trailers and what not then actually playing it thinking how much of a bad game it was.At one point I thought I must of been playing a different game but no it's got to be up there of one of the most disappointments of any game yep and after a week it came out I sold it to blockbuster but when I looked on the shelf there was more used copies of brink than new ones in the shop so that tells me I wasn't alone.

[Redempteur]

Something is wrong if a game like brink sell this much and some good games struggle to reach 1mil