The XBLA Sales Thread (Fez over 250k !)

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JayWood2010 said:

Congrats to CastleMiner Z.  I have to say great job once again for this thread.  I'd like ioito find a way to put these on the vgchartz numbers as well as they are likely pretty accurate.

I'd also like to se someone be able to do PSN numbers as well.  Although since people share games it may be a little harder to do.

Also what qwould you consider a good 1st week for a XBLA game?

Well I guess it wouldn't be too hard to get PSN numbers, it's just that the community often doesn't care enough to do some work themselves.
I mean we wouldn't get any leaderboard numbers if mrstickball hadn't done it back then and Ryan Langley wouldn't do it right now.

To follow all games as a normal gamer would be near impossible, so either you get the games as free copies from the publisher or company you're working for or you split the work and that is IMO the simplest and best idea.


For your question, it really depends on the game. I think any game that sells over 200k during its life is at least somewhat succesful. Therefore FW don't have to be huge (at least they didn't need to a few years ago).
Terraria did 128k FW and that's a great start. In comparison BattleBlock Theater seems rather low. But XBLA is not as front loaded as the retail market.

Personally I think every game that starts with ~40k FW has a very good chance to make the list within a reasonable time.