Borderlands 2 'on track to become the highest selling release in the history of 2K'

Randy Pitchford must be pretty happy about this. Borderlands 2 has shipped six million units, and is "on track to become the highest selling" game in 2K's history.

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Randy Pitchford must be pretty happy about this. Borderlands 2 has shipped six million units, and is "on track to become the highest selling release in the history of 2K, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said in an investors call attended by Joystiq.

Take-Two also revealed shipment figures for BioShock Infinite. The company shipped over 3.7 million units of the game, "significantly" higher than any previous BioShock release.

Rockstar Games, a wholly owned subsidiary of Take-Two, also announced that Max Payne 3 had reached four million units shipped.

Andrew Yoon was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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    May 13, 2013 6:30 PM

    Andrew Yoon posted a new article, Borderlands 2 'on track to become the highest selling release in the history of 2K'.

    Randy Pitchford must be pretty happy about this. Borderlands 2 has shipped six million units, and is "on track to become the highest selling" game in 2K's history.

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      May 13, 2013 6:31 PM

      I've already authorized the destruction of your world; there is no need for me to gather further evidence.

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      May 13, 2013 6:59 PM

      well yeah. if you sell a title like this brand new for $30-$40, people will buy it.

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      May 13, 2013 7:03 PM

      FPS RPGs with COOP are successful!?

      Get the fuck out of here...

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      May 13, 2013 7:12 PM

      but, but, but, Gearbox sucks at making games!!!!

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        May 14, 2013 6:30 AM

        Gearbox sucks at making games other than Borderlands, is what I got out of this. Kudos for Borderlands1 & 2 but big thumbs down for just about everything else.

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        May 14, 2013 6:33 AM

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          May 14, 2013 7:20 AM

          Right. But I'm pretty sure an 89 on metacritic does.

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            May 14, 2013 8:28 AM

            nah it actually doesn't at all

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              May 14, 2013 8:35 AM

              - Sells a ton of copies.
              - Retailers keep buying more copies
              - Shackers who hate Gearbox like BL2
              - Critics love it

              OK, so what DOES qualify as good in your book?

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              May 14, 2013 11:01 AM

              Then what, pray tell, would?

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        May 14, 2013 6:51 AM

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          May 14, 2013 7:51 AM

          I'm a huge Gearbox defender on here (I still don't see what most of the hate is about) but even I have to say they need to be taken out to the woodshed on A:CM. They rescued DNF, they knocked it out of the park with BL2, and they have a revered franchise in BiA. Then they completely shoot themselves in the foot with A:CM. I know it's because of another developer but they mismanaged the fuck out of the game and put their name on it, right after unfucking another game who was in the position they were in due to mismanagement.

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        May 14, 2013 6:56 AM

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        May 14, 2013 7:29 AM

        yeah, they are pretty mediocre

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          May 14, 2013 7:30 AM

          I see a lot of good games and a couple of turds. Can't win 'em all.

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            May 14, 2013 8:36 AM

            Apart from OpFor and BL2, everything on that list is either mediocre or bad.

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      May 13, 2013 8:07 PM

      SHIPPED not SOLD They are probably counting all the crap boxes they put out with DLC and such. They do this just to make their stocks jump up..

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        May 14, 2013 7:29 AM

        No one ships 6M copies of a game that won't sell.

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        May 14, 2013 8:26 AM

        Shipped to retailers = sold buddy. Retailers pay for the product, and it's typically a very large percentage of the shelf price (profit margins on video games are pretty slim, if we're talking boxed copies). Assuming those units sell to consumers at a reasonable price point, everybody wins.

        It's not always quite that simple, with price protection schemes it may be that some of that money gets refunded either directly or indirectly (if the title ends up in the bargain bin at lower than some threshold price), but if it's doing well then this isn't going to come into the equation.

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      May 13, 2013 8:20 PM

      Let me be the first one in this thread to say something positive.

      Congratulations, Gearbox. BL2 was a fun game and am looking forward to the next installment.

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        May 13, 2013 8:59 PM

        I still play BL2 more than any other game I own. Just hit my 85% this weekend, and reset everything.

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        May 14, 2013 6:49 AM

        Hear hear. I'm quite excited for the new character, and looking forward to another romp through the lands.

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        May 14, 2013 6:50 AM

        I've put 100+ hours into BL2, far more than any other game I've played in the last 5 years, and I'm still enjoying it.

        Can't wait for BL3.

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          May 14, 2013 6:56 AM

          You think they'll do a second season of DLC? It almost seems primed for it, what with the release of the new character right in time for the first to wrap up. Though I wish Gearbox would have had more of a hand in making the first season... the writing definitely suffered.

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            May 14, 2013 6:58 AM

            I haven't played any of the DLC yet. I bought the DLC for BL1 and it was kind of a slog, I got tired of it halfway through and my wife still complains that "we didn't finish BL1" even though we played through the main quest on 2 different occasions.

            So I'm skeptical about buying DLC at this point, even if it's really cheap.

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        May 14, 2013 6:53 AM

        Seconded. BL1 was ok, BL2 was excellent. I really dug the fact that it felt properly finished, and the script was genuinely funny at times, not many games get a laugh-out-loud out of me.

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        May 14, 2013 7:38 AM

        BL2 is a very fun game. Unfortunately, I can't play it with a friend of mine because it just started to lock his entire system up. Even a reinstall/driver update didn't fix it.

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        May 14, 2013 7:57 AM

        It really is the damndest thing, how this company can make sheer excellence and follow it up with garbage, and then repeat that cycle.

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          May 14, 2013 8:07 AM

          I wonder if the success of BL2 could make it to where Gearbox can become a developer that decides more of their own projects. BiA: Furious 4 is basically Borderlands in WW2. They need to retool that and make it Basterds in Arms or something. A:CM was a clusterfuck but it's a game they maybe took on because they needed the money. If BL2 is setting records and BL2 is indicative of what they can do when they call all the shots then maybe it can give them more clout.

          Every game Gearbox did prior to BiA was a port, sequel or expansion to someone else's game. BiA allowed them to expand while at the same time being a safe WW2 game in a time when WW2 games meant printing money. Then they could do their real game, Borderlands. Even with the whole "double the game's price with DLC" and BL1 getting damn cheap at the end there, BL2 is selling record numbers. They're really doing something right when Steam sales and console centric gaming still doesn't deter a great product.

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      May 13, 2013 10:20 PM

      No wonder he's quitting American Idol.

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      May 14, 2013 7:41 AM

      regardless of who made it, I think it's a good example of improvement on a direct sequel. PC users' issues were acknowledged, and amazingly... ADDRESSED.

      very fun game, good hilarious characters featuring SCOOTER of course. guns + loot at the same time? yep. it's a nice combo of good elements, and the game is fun most importantly.

      I still have to finish some of the DLC in fact!!!

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      May 14, 2013 7:50 AM

      I hope all of this success helps to ensure that things like Aliens: Colonial Marines don't happen to gamers anymore.

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      May 14, 2013 8:05 AM

      I got it for free and still feel ripped off. Not really but I just cant get into it. :/

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      May 14, 2013 8:30 AM

      well its pretty fucking good

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      May 14, 2013 10:55 AM

      Oops, sold below expectations. No more Borderlands 3, and everyone laid off. If it didn't sell 70 million within the first 2 seconds. The game is a fail.

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      May 14, 2013 12:25 PM

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      May 14, 2013 4:06 PM

      Wait...wait...only 3.7 million copies? That's a failure right?...that's like shitty Tomb Raider numbers

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