Xbox Live Has its Best March Sales to Date
Sales top $10 million in March, after a less-than-stellar January and February.
By Steve Watts, 04/27/2010
As the retail space is starting to see signs of recovery, online game sales seem to be improving as well. GamesIndustry.biz reports that March 2010 was a record-setting month for Xbox Live Arcade sales. According to the market research firm Forecasting and Analyzing Digital Entertainment (FADE), March sales topped $10 million for the first time ever, amounting to a 41% increase over 2009. This is fresh off the heels of a disappointing February, which brought in a mere $6.8 million according to estimates.
The firm cites Microsoft’s Block Party promotion, particularly the tower defense title Toy Soldiers. It was the month’s biggest seller at an estimated 209,000 downloads, or $3.14 million in dollar form. Perfect Dark took second place with 161,000 downloads amounting to $1.61 million. Scrap Metal, also part of the Block Party promotion, came in seventh place with about $270,000 in revenue. The full list of FADE sales estimates is below:
Toy Soldiers – 209,000 units ($3.14m)
Perfect Dark – 161,000 units ($1.61m)
Trials HD – 53,000 units ($0.80m)
Battlefield 1943 – 37,000 units ($0.56m)
Castle Crashers – 34,000 units ($0.51m)
Hasbro Family Game Night – 32,000 units ($0.32m)
Scrap Metal – 18,000 units ($0.27m)
Marvel vs. Capcom – 25,000 units ($0.25m)
Shadow Complex – 13,000 units ($0.20m)
Magic: The Gathering – 16,000 units ($0.16m)
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