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oniyide on 14 February 2012
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zarx said:
Seece said:

Yeah a fair few do actually, Castle Crashers, Limbo and Braid did over 1 mill alone on XBLA, and that's off the top of my head.


Sorry but no

Braid didn't get close to 1 million on XBLA  http://gamasutra.com/view/news/39713/Xbox_Live_Arcade_by_the_numbers__the_2011_year_in_review.php only 463k entries on the leaderboard. Also you can see Splosion man is at 487k and Limbo is 892k. Castle crashers has over 2.5 million but multiplayer means one copy can have multiple entries on the leaderboard and isn't a platformer anyway. And in fact those numbers may be inflated because the games can be played using multiple accounts if the game is on the origonal console if I am not mistaken. 

Under half of Super Meat Boy's sales were on XBLA before the humble indie budle pushed it over a million with 345k copies, and as you can see from the gamasutra article is only in fact at 250k on XBLA.

So yea no platformer has crossed 1 million on XBLA unless you count Trials HD

 


But there is no gaurantee that everyone who has that game will even log on to the leaderboards?? I have Braid myself and I never put my stuff up on Leaderboards