IGN: Shadow Complex is a Top 10 Seller
Shadow Complex, the final release of this year's Summer of Arcade on Xbox Live, has achieved over 200k in sales so far since its release last month. That puts it, according to NPD Group sales date for the Month of August 2009, right around number six. Just to be clear, that's overall sales, right under Madden NFL 10 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, Rocksteady's Batman: Arkham Asylum, and Nintendo's Wii Sports Resort.
Of course the revenue's different -- Chair's downloadable game sells for 15 USD as compared to full retail price -- but that's still a pretty big deal, and shows consumers have absolutely no issue turning to the Live Arcade when there's nothing as interesting on store shelves.
We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai
It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps
We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick
