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Portal 2 has sold over 4M copies

Valve Corporation has announced that Portal 2 has sold more than 4 million copies across consoles and PCs since the first-person puzzle-platformer released a year ago.

Eric Caoili, Blogger

May 8, 2012

1 Min Read
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Newsbrief: Valve Corporation has announced that Portal 2 has sold more than 4 million copies across consoles and PCs since the first-person puzzle-platformer released a year ago. With this new figure provided to Neogamr by Valve level designer David Sawyer, the Portal franchise has now sold over 8 million copies total. Shipped in 2007, the original Portal game has moved more than 4 million units, not including copies sold on Valve's Steam service. Valve boss Gabe Newell previously told Gamasutra that the Windows and Mac versions of Portal 2 sold more than its Xbox 360 and PlayStation editions. The company revealed this latest sales information today as it released a new update for Portal 2 that includes a level editor.

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Eric Caoili

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Eric Caoili currently serves as a news editor for Gamasutra, and has helmed numerous other UBM Techweb Game Network sites all now long-dead, including GameSetWatch. He is also co-editor for beloved handheld gaming blog Tiny Cartridge, and has contributed to Joystiq, Winamp, GamePro, and 4 Color Rebellion.

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