Say what? you dont like the music? :O In my eyes it was the best soundtrack of any game in 2014. It certainly get's harder than the first map, it's more or less a tutorial.

Yep, and still sold significantly less than Shovel Knight. Even with SK being digital exclusive for more than a year before its physical release.

Honestly, price is only so much of an advantage. It doesn't guarantee success in every instance.

Indeed, so I don't see why people would try to use price as a means to downplay SK's success. I mean, should we start to include budget and return on investment as well lol? Cause I'm pretty sure SK would blow AAAs out of the water then

200 physical with a year headstart for the digital version.

Wauw!

It's pretty common for known indie games and Shovel Knight is one of them. Took them far longer than expected to reach that number. Far worse games have reached a million much quicker. Nowadays and already 3 years ago. So, yeah it's a bit sad it's only at 1.2m as of now. Remember that it's on pretty much every platform there is. Also there's only one DLC as of now and that one is free.

I'm not saying that it should compete with Rocket League or Minecraft, but it's certainly a better game than many dozen indie games that sold more.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mQI___0B00M

Honestly the game isn't that hard once you get the hang of it.

Pretty much every boss kicked my ass about twice before I beat them, but once you know the pattern it's quite doable. The stages themselves were pretty easy though mostly. Make sure to buy the health upgrades and get the good relics (Phase Locket makes the game really easy).

Great sales for a fun game. I guess the PS sales are based in system it was first activated on though as it's cross buy.

Or would they count someone downloading on more than 1 system as 2 sales?

Possibly. If they wanted to, they definitely could do it either way, though I would just assume that one purchase would go towards the version that was originally bought.

As far as im aware, its not common.Just because 3 or 4 indies reached that mark last year(im guessing numbers here, I dont remember which games reached that milestone) dosent make that common.Common would be if 40% or higher of every indie released reached those sales.Plus this is the first game from Yatch Club, so th game didnt have any prior hype(read:developer pedigree) behind it.Minecraft and Rocket League are annomalities, even for AAA standard.And you need to remember that it released first on PC and Nintendo systems, then went to Sony and Microsoft.

And I mean, its 1.2 million for gods sake!They used  roughly 311k to developed it, and they are making dozens of millions in profits.How can that be sad in any way?People are unrealistic in expectations.If the industry needed millions upon millions of sales for any game to be considered a success, it would have crashed by now.