Dead Island to ship two million by week end

Two million copies of Dead Island will have made it into the hands of retailers worldwide by the end of this week, with over a million already sent to US stores, Deep Silver has announced.

“We’re thrilled at the retail reception Dead Island has achieved in its first few days,” said Geoff Mulligan, chief operating officer at Deep Silver, “The critical ‘first week’ of game sales has been an enormous sales success for Deep Silver. We’re working quickly with our distribution partner in North America, Square Enix, to restock shelves as quickly as we can.”

“With more than a million copies sold, I feel good knowing that the world is now more prepared than ever for what to do should a real zombie invasion ever threaten humanity.” added Mike Fischer, president and CEO of Square Enix, Inc.

In contrast to it apparent commercial success, we weren’t overly impressed by the zombie romp.

With reports of the game being difficult to track down it would appear that the often reported shipped figure is pretty close to the figure sold through to consumers.