[This blog post is really long. I'll just post the stuff I found interesting.. I would totally recommend going there, because there is a lot more good information, and it all comes from one of the game's devs.]

http://gamasutra.com/blogs/DavidDAngelo/20160414/270282/Feat_Unlocked_One_Million_Copies_of_Shovel_Knight_Sold.php?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

We’re excited to share some amazing news! A major milestone! Our quest to a million copies sold is complete! In December 2015, Shovel Knight surpassed one million copies sold total, and as of this February, Shovel Knight passed a million copies sold only digitally! Thank you everyone for your unending support. We couldn’t be happier that Shovel Knight is still loved and played years after its release. To celebrate it crossing a million, we’ll be discounting Shovel Knight at 33% off for a week at various times this month on every store it’s released on (Nintendo Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, Sony PS4, Sony PS3, PlayStation Vita, Steam, GOG, Humble Store, and Amazon Fire TV) . If you haven’t picked it up, now’s the time! We’re also launching some new PS4, PS Vita, and Nintendo 3DS themes to join in the celebration! It’s like a whole new suit of armor for your system.

We hope to share a little bit of what we’ve learned over the past couple years of both making a game like Shovel Knight and maintaining it after release. As we’ve done in the past, below you’ll find a breakdown of Shovel Knights sales. Hopefully players and developers alike can find something to learn from this info!

Steam User Stats!

Here are some fun game stats based on our Steam users:

• Our most unlocked achievement is First Purchase, which 85% of people have done. We’re not sure how much Goatician makes from each Meal Ticket sold, but we wish him well in his entrepreneurial pursuits.
• 32% of people have gotten the Victory Achievement, meaning they completed the game as Shovel Knight. 2% of players have gone on to complete New Game +.
• 5% of our Steam PC players were determined to be playing on Mac, with 1% determined to be on Linux.
• 345,000 people have Shovel Knight in their Steam wishlist. 102,000 people have removed Shovel Knight from their wishlist and 131,000 people have picked up Shovel Knight after having it on their wishlist!
• Median playtime is 5 hours and 23 minutes. Average playtime is 8 hours and 3 minutes.

amiibo Figure Sales

We hope to provide a very in-depth article about how the Shovel Knight amiibo was made soon. So stay tuned for that! In the meantime, here’s a bit about its sales so far. Believe it or not, we actually ordered over 200,000 units to be manufactured and shipped all over the world. We’ve currently sold through 180,000 of those units since the amiibo figure launched January 8th. 60,000 of those going to Europe and the rest going to North America. The sales for the amiibo figure are still strong, enough so that our North American distribution branch decided to order 30,000 more units!

Congrats to Yacht Club for selling so many copies!

(...even though I still hate Shovel Knight with a burning passion.)

Im so glad shovel knight succeeded. He is going to be face of indies and he going to star guess appear in ssb. :p

ncluding Kratos in the PS versions was a good idea, it got my attention and I bought this game on PS3, played it and enjoyed it quite a bit. I think that played a part atleast in its strong sales on PlayStation despite the late release.

Wow, 200k physical? Colour me impressed.

3DS sales are surprisingly close to PC sales.

I'm happy for Yatch Club, it's a well deserved success.

180k Amiibos are really impressive !

I wonder if they'll first release Shovel Knight 2 or a new game.

Also I can't help but remember of when one of the lead developers at Yacht Club Games stated "If Nintendo were to ask us to work on a 2D Metroid game we couldn't say no..." , I wish that happened...

thats over 500k on Nintendo platforms, pretty good i would say

They still have a long way to go before development of Shovel Knight is complete. They reached every stretch goal for the Kickstarter campaign, which included additional single-player campaigns based on some of the bosses. And there are still two of them to go. There are also new modes too. So I wouldn't expect a new Shovel Knight game to be announced within the next 2 years.

why is the ps4 version outselling the xb1 only by 2:1, while this kind of games tend to do better on the playstation platform?