Kane & Lynch Sales Top One Million

This is off topic i know but i wanted to make the shack admins aware... Did you know that all your mod comments on banned/warned users are freely available on google? ^^

http://www.root-core.org/shackmodboard/index.html

Very interesting read :P

1 million. I have a hard time beliving this. Sometimes I wonder if companies don't just pull those numbers out of their ass. I don't think there is any real control over those numbers or any law that could prevent you from doing so.

This is pathetic.

don't be shocked...there actually ARE that many stupid people in the world.

lol. what? this article has to be a joke right?

Kane & Lynch's commercial success is clearly the result of the hearty endorsement of the game in a Shackblog editorial by Steve Gaynor

Really? how so?

As professional movers and shakers of the gaming industry, Shacknews is no stranger to shifting the commercial fate of even the most dismally rated games.

WHAT? I have... no words.

I know I am going to come across as biased with this post because I was the one to write a counterpoint article in response to Steve Gaynor, but this article not only insults the intelligence of shack readers on whole but displays an grossly egotistical point of view of shacknews' editorial power in the gaming industry.

It's funny that most of the controversy surrounding Kane & Lynch was about Journalist Integrity, yet sites covering the issue continue to publish eye opening articles that bring that very Integrity into question.

Great, super games like Crysis barely hit 80k in sales and this piece of shit goes gold.

We really deserve every bit of garbage we get on TV, in games, movies etc.

I just finished playing the demo on the PS3. How the fuck did it sell 1 million copies? This fucking game fucking sucks.

Fuck.

It's Things like this that make me miss old distribution models. Remember back when the demo would come out BEFORE the game? If that was still common practice then consumers as a whole (even the dirt-shit stupid ones) would know to be wary of titles that don't have a demo, or whose demo really sucked. If that model still existed this thing wouldn't have sold anywhere near 1M copies, regardless of the marketing push associated with the it.

While on the subject, let's not forget how this underscores the importance of a digital distribution model. Seeing something like this be pushed to people by the means of displaying it predominately in store, or peddled by employees to people who don't know much about a system (read; people buying gifts for other people) because places like Gamestop need to move inventory is totally unacceptable to me. The Idea that because this game has such a large budget it got shoved down one _million_ people's throats, as opposed to the numerous other great games that came out this season sickens me.

In summation: God bless you Valve for your Great games AND your amazing social/delivery platform. Extra shout to 3D Realms / Human Head for doing the right thing and releasing the Prey Demo a full week before the game.

/rant off

On the bright side IO can use this money to make other, better games.

who is aaron?

This is why we can't have nice things :(

Dear lord. What the fuck? Who bought this?

Didn't that terrible 50 Cent game on Xbox sell over a million as well?

The game was ridden with bugs for me (NPC's getting stuck, audio not sycned with video, etc..) and it just seemed to me like it was rushed out the door without any serious testing or finishing touches.

Gun fights were okay, but it played like a poor mix between Grand Theft Auto & Gears of War with so-so graphics..

It's worth a rental if youv'e got nothing better to do, but I certainly wouldn't buy it.

amazin.

In other news, gamestop has reported record losses, having to buy 1 million more copies of used games than expected this month.

didnt sci produce carmageddon?

they should make a new one

No accounting for taste.