| Mail |

You might also like: WoW Insider, Massively, and more

More Sites You Might Like

Chew on these successful XBLA stats and figures

by Dustin Burg on Dec 22nd 2008 3:45PM

Feeling a bit reflective, today Microsoft put out a press release with the sole reason of gloating about the success of the Xbox Live Arcade over the years and especially in 2008. Read over the bulleted list and try to guesstimate how many Microsoft points have been spent on XBLA titles over the years.

1.25 billion Gamerscore unlocked to date.
100 million achievements earned to date.
60+ XBLA titles score 75 or higher on metacritic.
Braid is highest rated XBLA game of all time.
110 million trial XBLA games have been downloaded to date.
The Summer of Arcade saw a 58% increase in unique members purchasing game titles.
August broke revenue record by 67%.

Source

Tags: braid, x3f-twitter, xbla

Reader Comments (20)

Captain Maths to the rescue!!

# 1.25 billion Gamerscore unlocked to date.
# 100 million achievements earned to date.

So, each of those achievements is worth 1025 Gamerscore? Something smells fishy, and indeed, doesn't add up.

1.25 billion = 1250 million.

1250 million / 100 million = 12.5, so the average achievement value is ~ 12.5 gamerscore. Very believable.

Don't quit your day job, Captain Maths (unless math IS your day job).

I've demoted Captain Maths to Lieutenant Maths for his error.

Capt Maths has been further demoted to Private Floor Sweeper.

why did braid score so high?
i tought it was kind of crap and there is a load of xbla games that are much better so....what is so good about it?

For example..

Did you collect all the Puzzle Pieces? If so, did you use a guide? The is game makes you use your brain and if you cheat, it'll take all the fun out.

Staring at a screen trying to solve a puzzle is not fun, it's frustrating. To me, anyway. The game's just not for me.

Staring at a screen trying to shoot at players who are always moving is not fun, it's frustrating.

Staring at a screen trying to press buttons on a plastic guitar in rhythm to music is not fun, it's frustrating.

Staring at a screen trying to make a plumber jump on top of a turtle is not fun, it's frustrating.

A game is all about staring at a screen doing something that is difficult.

I see Braid as a fine wine of a videogame. Some people will just think "ugh, some kind of tart fruity little thing. Thank god it's over," and some people will savor every little bit of it and take it as an all-encompassing experience. I'm one of the latter, but it's perfectly fine if you're one of the former. It's a game that means different things to different people, and I think that maybe that was also part of the designer's intent.

Some of the arcade games I got over summer...

WOTB: Commando 3
1942 Joint Strike
Mega Man 9
Golf: Tee it up
Bionic Commando: Rearmed
Fable 2 Pub Games

oopsie i forgot castle crashers :X

Arcade games I bought in the last year:

Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
Rez HD
Castle Crashers
Geometry Wars Evolved²
Ikaruga
Brain Challenge

I might have gone a bit overboard with XBLA this year.

Pub Games, Bionic commando, Castle Crashers, Age of Booty, Penny Arcade: ep 1 and a Kingdom for Keflings

These numbers don't tell us anything ... and it's interesting that MS doesn't share actual sale numbers ... it could vary greatly!

for example:

if an average of 6 achievements were unlocked per game it would mean that over 16.6 million games were bought.

if an average of 8 achievements were unlocked per game that number falls to 12.5 million.

if the average is 10 = 10 million (which is unlikely)

then take into account that there are 60+ games have 75+ ratings and it could be guesstimated that the above average seller could see 200,000 games sold on XBLA.

Considering this is going back 3 years, is it really THAT good??

captain maths is back....

Dang, this makes me want to give Braid another shot, I downloaded the trial and played it about 2 minutes and quit thinking it was another crappy arcade game without actually playing it.

adam: The majority of Xbox Live Arcade titles barely sell 100.000 copies. There are some like UNO that have sold about 500.000 copies and still sell well. However I'm surprised with how well XBLA is doing. About 14 million sold XBLA games is a huge success (and it fits with the 110 million trial downloads) for a pretty new service which is still growing fast. I wonder how well Community Games will sell.

No wonder August saw such an increase in revenue... that's where all the high-priced games came out.

It's all about teh spinz0rz!

Breaking News

Chew on these successful XBLA stats and figures

Reader Comments (20)

Posted: Dec 22nd 2008 3:51PM Jonman said

Posted: Dec 22nd 2008 3:55PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Dec 22nd 2008 3:58PM hotdogcookingrobot said

Posted: Dec 22nd 2008 4:08PM Jonman said

Posted: Dec 22nd 2008 4:30PM MrMuggs said

Posted: Dec 22nd 2008 3:56PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Dec 22nd 2008 4:03PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Dec 22nd 2008 4:12PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Dec 22nd 2008 4:33PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Dec 22nd 2008 5:03PM erh said

Posted: Dec 22nd 2008 7:50PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Dec 22nd 2008 4:01PM MyAbsolution said

Posted: Dec 22nd 2008 5:57PM MyAbsolution said

Posted: Dec 22nd 2008 4:32PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Dec 22nd 2008 5:08PM JCarpio said

Posted: Dec 22nd 2008 5:23PM xnowimcoolx said

Posted: Dec 23rd 2008 1:17PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Dec 22nd 2008 8:43PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Dec 22nd 2008 11:31PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Dec 23rd 2008 9:54AM BFBeast666 said

Info

Description

MSRP

Release Date

Genre

Developer

Publisher

Rating

Breaking News

WB conjures up Harry Potter for Kinect this fall

Featured Stories

Silver Lining: I Am Alive's unfeeling world

Game Of Thrones and the paradoxes of adaptation

Super Joystiq Podcast 004: 38 Studios meltdown, Gravity Rush, Civilization 5: Gods & Kings, Dragon's Dogma

Engadget

TUAW

Massively

WoW