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# How the hell has Hotline Miami sold 130,000 copies?
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/how-hell-has-hotline-miami-sold-130000-copies/
- Published: 2012-12-11T15:44:05.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T14:44:37.000Z
- Description: Hotline Miami doesn’t seem like an easy sell. True, the first postmodern game is my favorite of the year, and its Drive-meets-Scarface-meets-Smash TV aesthetic scratches an itch for a lot of weird dudes like me. But come on: it’s a top-down, grotesque kill fest with a meta-meta plot and it’s only av
- Author: Joseph Bernstein
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

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Hotline Miami doesn’t seem like an easy sell. True, the [first postmodern game](http://killscreendaily.com/articles/reviews/kill-screen-review-hotline-miami-first-postmodern-videogame/?ref=killscreen.com) is my favorite of the year, and its Drive-meets-Scarface-meets-*Smash TV* aesthetic scratches an itch for a lot of weird dudes like me. But come on: it’s a top-down, grotesque kill fest with a meta-meta plot and it’s only available for PC.

So [how the hell has this thing already sold 130,000 copies](http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-12-11-the-hotline-miami-sales-story-and-more?ref=killscreen.com)? This figure doesn’t take into account the rampant pirating of the small game file:

> PC piracy…ravaged Hotline Miami. “It has been torrented to such a *staggering* level, and given the file size of it, I mean, you can’t really be surprised, right? You could pass this thing around on the world’s smallest memory stick,” he noted. “So it has been torrented to extraordinary levels.”  
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Once the game releases on Mac, where it figures to have a healthy audience, and if it can ever find its way onto the consoles, it could eventually reach Limbo-esque (900,000 copies) sales.