August's revenue numbers for Xbox live - simply amazing

[mrstickball]

shio said:

DirtyP2002 said:

Don't forget Portal, Southpark, Banjo Kazooie, Banjo Tooie, Vigilante 8 are still to come. With the new Xbox Experience, Xbox Live Arcade could get even better next year.

I really love XBLA. A game like Braid wouldn't be possible without Arcade. Nobody would have ever played it. It is a game by 2 independent developers. Now this game made $ 2,300,000.00 revenue. It is so nice to see that a creative gameplay, even if the game is low-budget, still sells well. Too many times I payed 60€ for a game that turned out to be crap.

How would Braid not be possible without Arcade? It did sell great, but it would've sold far more on PC.

 

Wrong.

Jonathan Blow was initally turned away from PC development for Braid because he attempted to first get the game published on Steam and other digital distribution websites and mechanisms. He was unable to do such when analysts told him that Braid, if published on PC first, would struggle to sell 5,000 copies LTD. That led him to XBLA.

150,000 units later, Braid will goto PC. Not because PC was the better medium, but because now that PC owners know about it, it has a better chance. So Braid was only possible due to Arcade, and Jonathan Blow said that himself.

As for XBLA sales on a month v. month basis. September #s still have 1 week to go: