Detroit: Become Human Sells 1 Million In 2 Weeks

The game Detroit: Become Human has already attracted 1 million buyers, according to the French studio. It was developed in four years, in Paris.

Quantic Dream prides itself on never following up on its video games and preferring to create totally new worlds. On the other hand, their successes have an air of déjà-vu. "We have just passed the million mark sold for Detroit: Become Human, two weeks after the release of the game, said Guillaume de Fondaumiere, the deputy CEO of the French independent studio. This is clearly our best start. The previous title of this flagship of narrative video games, Heavy Rain, in 2014, took five weeks to break the milestone of one million copies. In total, it attracted 5.5 million players.

[Nyxus]

Congrats, and well deserved! Glad to be one of them. :)

[chrisx]

well deserved indeed. I also played my part in purchasing a copy. I'm on my 3rd play through now, real great game. Ps4 is a gamers dream console.

[Deep-throat]

I'm glad you are!

BTW, sold 1 million in the US or worldwide?

[Nyxus]

Worldwide I think. Not sure though.

[UCForce]

Nice to hear that.

[SuperSonic91]

Incredible reception from gamers!
This new game can sell like Horizon Zero Dawn 8-10 million units life time.
Congratulations Quantic Dream more brave games like these David Cage.
PS4 greatness right there!

[KickSpinFilter]

Well that's not going to happen but could see 2.5 m
(Can't tell if your joking or not)

[SuperSonic91]

@ kick

Ps4 has always gone above and beyong my outlandish prediction numbers most of the time by a million.
And QD so far has made only well received hit games

[Thatguy-310]

Well deserve! Talent wins! Now to wait for the next thing this studio decides to cook up. Hopefully we hear of a playstation acquisition tomorrow because this studio truly deserves to be snatched up by Sony. Haters are going to have to hate a little harder because we'll be seeing another David Cage game in the future ;D Cant wait!

If you have a PS4 please buy this game. It's truly a special gem this generation.

[morganfell]

Fantastic. And what an engrossing title.

[P_Bomb]

Okay, so straight from the deputy CEO’s mouth. One million sold after two weeks. As they’ve tweeted before, their best start (Heavy Rain took 5 weeks to hit a mil’).

In other words, those that ran with that resetera quote about only selling a quarter of HR, can pump the brakes a bit. You asked for a number, you got one.

[MasterCornholio]

So I guess those claims that it did worse than Heavy Rain were false then.

[DialgaMarine]

I wonder why Resetera would post such nonsense, when it was confirmed this is QD’s most successful game yet.

[P_Bomb]

My guess is they looked at the UK’s two days worth of sales and superimposed it worldwide. Jumped the gun.

[MasterCornholio]

@P_Bomb

Not really they did discuss as sales from the UK. What happened is that an N4G user was using that article to try and prove that it was selling alot worse than Heavy Rain. He literally tried to pass off UK sales as global sales.

[Liqu1d]

Easily their best work yet.

[DigitalRaptor]

Amazing game, their best game.

Much deserved!

[salmonade]

I thought this game was 10 times better than heavy rain. This game was awesome and I'm in the process of Platinuming it.

[DialgaMarine]

Not bad at all.

[Felix_Argyle_Catbro]

Spinning sold and shipped right here. Tracking physical copies sold to gamers is close to impossible, so they are probably talking about shipments + digital sales like every other company.

[Mmmkay]

Spinning is when you talk about number of hours played and decisions made...

[johndoe11211]

" Tracking physical copies sold to gamers is close to impossible" are you serious? How the hell do you think microsoft knows how many zombies were killed in sod? Or how many bullets were fired in gow? Or how many chickens were caught in sot? All those major companies can track the statistics of their games which can give them a very good idea as to how many people have the game. They can obviously know how many copies were downloaded from the servers and they can cross reference that with how many people played the game based on stuff like trophy statistics. It obviously wouldn't be an exact figure but they can get very good estimates.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

Tracking copies sold to gamers is close to impossible? Are you saying stores don't pay attention to their sales? Even if you wanted to ignore that, the manifest will tell you what's selling and what's not. Stores don't just order more product if it isn't moving anything.

[Sunny_D]

There seems to be an error in the article. Heavy Rain came out in 2010, not 2014 lol.

[MasterCornholio]

Congratulations

[Father__Merrin]

well deserved should be the most popular cage title cant wait to play this. also i have to say the graphics far exceed anything ive seen on any other platform mabey apart from crysis 3 pc

[Gamist2dot0]

Conner and Hank should have their own crime fighting/mystery solving DLC.

[MetroidFREAK21]

I'll get a copy soon. Wanna check this game out

[outsider1624]

Congrats QD

[PizzaSteve]

Amazing and well deserved Quantic Dream.

[Bhai]

Being a niche game AND a single-player experience at that, that 1 million is remarkable!!!

[cellfluid]

GREATNESS!!

[KickSpinFilter]

Dang!
Think I might get this for Father day, whoop, whoop.

[King_Lothric]

Congratulations. Not many studios take this kind of risk and I am happy to see it worked as it gives us choices and diversity in the industry.