"Of the 24 new titls that we followed, only 13 of them gained more than 10,000 players on their Leaderboards – three of them, Voodoo Dice, Ben 10 and Fret Nice, were near or below 1,000 players total.
Only two were able to do over 100,000 – Perfect Dark and Toy Soliders, both helped by the Xbox Live Block Party promotion, though RISK: Factions and Snoopy Flying Ace will likely hit the mark by the end of the year. Toy Soliders added 338,206 players and Perfect Dark added 264,627.
Other big winners for the year include Trials HD, which added 416,568 new players in 2010 to make up 1,061,148 players total – crossing the million players line that so few have crossed. The DLC also added 176,085 players this year, making it the best selling DLC for a downloadable game. The never-stopping Castle Crashers added 295,497 players in 2010, which now has 1,740,293 in total, and Splosion Man added an extra 100,000 players this year as well, and scooted over 300,000 players since its release.
Some additional milestones were also hit -- A Kingdom for Keflings crossed 400,000 players during 2010 now with 430,000 players, as did Geometry Wars 2 now with 401,742 players -- N is very close to the mark too. Last year's Summer of Arcade hit TMNT Re-Shelled hit 300,000 players and Shadow Complex will also be hitting 500,000 very soon."
For the full analysis visit: http://www.gamerbytes.com/2010/07/indepth_xbox_live_arcade_sales_12.php
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Some impressive numbers. Especially by Trials HD. Toy Soldiers also did extremely well it seems. Of course also some stinkers, most of them just aren't good enough....
or they're adventure games. Looks like they don't do so well on XBLA (Monkey Island being the exception)
