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Quantic Dream announced that Detroit: Become Human has sold 3.2 million copies worldwide since its launch in 2018.
We are delighted to announce that Detroit: Become Human has now sold in excess of 3 million units on PS4 worldwide! pic.twitter.com/2qcdB2CaU3
— Detroit: Become Human (@Detroit_Game) October 3, 2019
Detroit: Become Human is set in a future where androids have automated the service, hospitality, transport, and other industries. Three different robots — Connor, Kara, and Markus — find their stories interweaving as they battle for independence and resist their subordinate purposes and programming. Players will be faced with decisions that echo throughout the branching storylines, and it’s possible to kill off one of the three androids permanently and still complete the game.
It was exclusive to PlayStation 4, as per Quantic Dream’s partnership with publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment. The two split after almost a decade of working together, and so Detroit: Become Human will be coming to the Epic Games store soon. It will join Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls, and Quantic Dream CEO David Cage said that all of the studio’s new projects will be multiplatform releases.
Detroit: Become Human is Quantic Dream’s fastest-selling title, and had achieved milestones of 1.5 million sales only a few months after launch and 2 million sales last December. So, it’s been chugging along quite quietly and successfully. Colm didn’t like it, though. He said its story tried its best to be emotive and thought-provoking, but ‘regularly veers into a bit that would be at home in a BBC mockumentary.’ For an exploration of android consciousness and humanity, I think you’d be better off watching Wallace and Gromit’s A Close Shave.
