XBLAFANS

Analyst firm Forecasting and Analyzing Digital Entertainment (FADE) has released a new report that shows XBLA revenue increased 18 percent last year to $144 million.

From Dust, created by Eric Chahi (Another World) and developed by Ubisoft Montpellier, and The Behemoth’s popular game Castle Crashers earned the most money with $4.6 million in revenue off 308,000 and 335,000 units sold respectively. Microsoft Games Studio’s Full House Poker moved the most units with 375,000 units sold but was fourth overall in revenue with $3.6 million.

From Dust was part of Microsoft’s “Summer of Arcade” promotion and joins Bastion, Toy Soldiers: Cold War, and  Fruit Ninja Kinect among the top grossing XBLA games of 2011. In total, the Summer of Arcade games listed in the top ten sold over 1.1 million units and grossed $15 million in revenue.

Here’s the full list issued by FADE (ordered by units sold):

1. Full House Poker (Microsoft Games Studios) – 375,000 units ($3.6 million)

2. Castle Crashers (The Behemoth) – 335,000 units ($4.6 million)

3. Fruit Ninja Kinect (Halfbrick Studios) – 324,000 units ($3.2 million)

4. From Dust (Ubisoft) – 308,000 units ($4.6 million)

5. Trials HD (RedLynx, LTD) – 286,000 units ($4.0 million)

6. Magic: The Gathering (Stainless Games) – 278,000 units ($2.7 million)

7. Torchlight (Runic Games) – 272,000 units ($4.0 million)

8. Toy Soldiers: Cold War (Signal Studios) – 241,000 units ($3.6 million)

9. Bastion (Supergiant Games) – 241,000 units ($3.6 million)

10. Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale (Bedlam Games) – 210,000 units ($2.8 million)

Source: CVG

Wow, XBLA is bigger than I thought, seems like 2012 should be even bigger though with the big amount of quality titles coming this year.

Amazing Sales!

I think the "other" one you mentioned is based of Leaderboard numbers.

Harms Way, Doritos Crash Course are free games that will not be counted by FADE
Fruit Ninja Kinect was bundled and therefore has much more people on the leaderboard.
Castle Crashers leaderboards include people that don't own the game, but play as a guest account.

Therefore is the "other" list just as reliable (though it doesn't contain games that don't have leaderboards for all players. BF1943 for example).

Not surprised, a lot of games were overpriced!

But this year should be even bigger, the quality is just immense this year.