Saints Row: The Third sells 5.5 million

I live this game because it has the most random WTF missions I have ever played.

Surprisingly fun game, I wish the adored GTA series would include free saving and checkpoints during missions...

Sasha Grey...I would love to Row you...

If this article were about GTA V, it would be titled "GTA V sells ONLY 5.5 million.

This game is hilarious, completely worth the price on steam.

Very good game, I enjoyed it plenty.  Hopefully we'll see a sequel with bigger, varied environments and more things to do.  

Got my copy off of steam for only 5.99 a few months ago. What a deal! I was surprised how good the game actually was!

I grabbed this recently, amazing game XD

best game ever

5.5 million.... If Steam achievements are obtained at about the same rate on consoles then that means over half a million people have gotten the "Your Backseat Smells Funny" achievement.

I got it on PC when it first game out.  Great game, though there were notable omissions from the previous game, so I could understand why some folks were ticked off.  I still enjoyed it quite a bit regardless. 

I am currently playing through the full package version on pc right now. I am loving it.

I 100%ed SR# with all achievements

I officially hate the franchise

I loved Saints Row 3, but wasn't so happy it went into zombie territory the last part of the game.  I missed the activities that were on SR2 - I would have loved more septic avenger and Fuzz, those were fun....

 Was blown away by how much fun this was and none of the extra activities felt tedious like in alot of sandbox games. Those figures are deserved should be more infact.

I love the SR series but i didn't really like 3 that much. I played SR2 for countless hours but for SR3, played for a couple of hours and sold it

This game is better than GTA 4. Fun > failed real-life simulator.

I bought it when a lot of others did too (according to my friends list) - when it sold for $20 on Steam.

this was one of my favorite games last year i had so much fun with it, worth buying.

It's not hard to believe. People like this franchise and others like it, that's why you keep making these games. You make subtle changes on them or add something a little new and leave it. I like the gangster mob type stuff. It's a good action experience

and does not cause school shootings.

Yeah, but THQ is in the pooper.

I just picked up a brand new copy of the complete edition.  I appreciate that they put it out there all on disc.  Complete editions are the only games that get my money nowadays.

Very cool and fun game, really violent and you get all the weapons you could want to take out your enemies! The VTOL Jet is really cool with it's laser and photon torpedoes.

Hopefully version 4 will make it out! Just when a game comes into it's best that's usually when the company crumbles... 

Game companies are like new car makers, the first cars are crap, people buy/get suckered into them and the company makes money, eventually the cars are worth the price. 

The middle of the game could use some filler, i noticed only the Professor Genki and the various odd mini games like the snatch and tank mayhem or insurance fraud. Those are o.k. because you have no choice but to try to play them if you want to unlock the bonuses in the game and upgrades, but it would be so much cooler if you could interact more with the actual city you are in. The city is pretty much detached from the actual game, the city feels like your just playing with your character in a train set where everything is fake and just a backdrop with no interactions. Too bad because with all the colorful signs and wild building decorations it's really odd that it almost invites you to go into the buildings to see just what the spectacular signs and billboards are touting about the interiors of the buildings only to get stopped by a texture mapped front door... 

I think that would be the next major challenge for game designers of this magnitude of game, I would call it a 2 layered game world.

Layer 1 The exterior

Layer 2 The interior

Can you imagine that? It could be done. The Sims3 actually does this pretty well, even though there are a few "Rabbit holes" in the Sims3.

Loved this game, I treated as fun game. Not very challenging though. First hours are hilarious.

Hope the next one is better. It's all about the toys you get to play in this open-world (V-Tol anyone?).

The first and last few hours of the game is some of the funnest you'll encounter in a game. A whole lot of "meh" in the middle though. Still worthy of its success though.

Unicorns are the worst.

Best funny game I have ever played. I didn't play from the beginning to the end of any sandbox games. But this game is the 1st one I play through all, I think SR3 is better than SR2 and I like its crazy style with unrealistic things in SR3. 

SR3 > Skyrim

awesome game, laughed my pants off playing it

Wish I never bought this game. Got it for free with Skyrim.

Saints Row 3 was a horrid departure from what made Saints Row 1 & 2 so great.  An amazing story line that endeared us to some over the top characters.  SR3 spit in the face of the fans with the story and then went all oddball and perverse for no reason at all than a vain attempt to be in your face raunchy.  I'd be very surprised if SR4 sells as well as SR3.  I know I won't be buying it on release day. 

Nice.  Sasha Grey in the video. :P

I got this on Steam about a month ago now.  Haven't played it yet.  Got Sleeping Dogs on my computer instead.  I'll get to this game, looks like it's completely insane sillyness.

We played the crap out of his one. Very funny and good game. Although I do not own it for myself.

I paid for the game twice. Once through PSN and again during the Steam summer sale.

Good for THQ and good for Rubin. I have a copy, I did my part.