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GDC09: PixelJunk Eden profitable after one day of sales

by Andrew Yoon on Mar 24th 2009 3:22PM

Publishers looking for a quick buck don't need to focus their efforts solely on the iPhone. Sony's Susan Panico touted the values of PSN development by providing a case study on PixelJunk Eden, Q-Games' third PSN-exclusive title. Panico told the GamesBeat audience that "PixelJunk Eden made its return on investment within 24 hours." Sales after that period become pure profit.

Of course, the success of Eden is a little unsurprising, considering the popularity of PixelJunk Monsters. Regardless, it's impressive that a small independent studio was able to create a trusted franchise exclusively through the PlayStation Network. With so much green made off of Eden, it's no wonder Q-Games is working on an expansion for the game. Eden Encore will be available in April.

Tags: gamesbeat, gdc-2009, pixeljunk, pixeljunk-eden, pixeljunk-eden-encore, playstation-network, psn, q-games, susan-panico

Reader Comments (30)

Well DAMN!!!

I still need to get this, maybe it will go on sale in the near future

Get it, it's great fun, and looks absolutely beautiful on a large 1080p TV.

But looks like tiny artifacted shit on Remote Play. :( Sucks considering it's the only PSN game I have that even works that way.

Then sell your PSP and buy a large 1080p TV. =P

It's been on sale once before, that's when I snagged it. Killer deal at the time.

But I *just* bought the doggone PSP!

damn it was on sale before and I missed it??? sucks ass...

Tuna get Pixel Junk Monsters it works Via Remote play pretty damn good.

Hyams I'm going to get a 1080p tv in a year or so....lol

That's really, really encouraging.

Eden is easily my favorite PSN game. I do wish there was a "casual" option to play it without a timer though. My girlfriend really enjoys it but gets super frustrated when time starts running out, and flat-out refuses to redo the level if we fail it up.

I thought there was a patch that introduced that, I could be wrong though.

I hear ya on that. I bought this game for my girlfriend because she doesn't enjoy 'scary' games (which excludes pretty much all but 10% of all games). Unfortunately for us, this game drives our frustration levels through the roof, so much so that it almost puts her off games entirely. Kinda shot myself in the foot with that one!

Now with that patch it's a little more forgiving, but we're still not really keen to get back into it. It's just too damn annoying with the trippy music (we've opted to turn it off) and those bloody stressful 'you're running out of time!' beeps. Ah well. Maybe we're just not hardcore enough?

Q-Games mastered branding with the PIxelJunk line. I don't see why more companies don't do this. Essentially, Racers, Monsters and Eden are all independent franchises. I think if they had tried to release each as a standalone title, they would have struggled greatly. But by uniting all of them under the PJ brand, they instantly communicate a certain level of quality and creativity in the title, regardless of what the game actually is.

Final Fantasy basically does the same thing. I think a lot more new IPs would find greater success if more companies would establish umbrella names to release titles under. Brand awareness is higher, loyalty is higher, trust is higher.

It is really encouraging for something of such quality. The single hitch is that its their 3rd game in the series, so development might be considerably lower than the first

Though i know nothing of the process, but PSN is certainly proving to be an excellent home for these sort of games. Really, all 3 services are.

Thank you for saying "all three services..." as it seems that the cool thing to do lately is hate all over WiiWare, but praise PSN and XBLA. PixelJunk Eden is one of my favorite downloadable games, right up there with Bit.Trip.Beat., LostWinds, the ArtStyle series, Braid, and Castle Crashers. It's uplifting to see that PJE made money so quickly. Hopefully that means we get more games of this ilk across all 3 platforms.

Yeah, the online stores are one of my favorite additions this generation.

I picked it up when it was on sale. It is a pretty simple game and you can tell they spent quite a bit of time making sure the whole thing matched a specific aesthetic. I swear I am only going to play it for ten minutes, but I always zone out and end up playing for an hour or so.

This is one of my favorite games of last year. Much better than Braid in my opinion.

I love this game, I love Monsters, icaht wait for Dungeons, and I can't wait to see what their next project is!

Random question: I got Monsters after the Encore expansion. What did Encore add? The trophy challenges?

Trophy challenges were a free patch later.

Encore added the 2nd island (Toki Island). And the secret 3rd island. The original only has Tiki Island (and thus no island select screen).

0_o island select? I'm gonna have to load up the game and take another look...

I got this one a few months after it was released while it was on sale and I liked it a lot. I still need to get through all the Trophies, though.

But when do I get a new island in Monsters? Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen?

I bought this game at launch and still play it to this day. It is one of my favorite games on the PSN so far. PJE Encore is coming out soon and I can't wait to see what they have done to my grimp's world.

On a side note, PSN games are the only games I can play right now since my 60GB's blu-ray lens decided to crap out on me. I want to play Killzone :(

You can! They released it on the PC, didn't you hear? It's called Team Fortress 2!!

I kid, I kid :P I do think the campaign is really where the game rocks though. I'm at the final battle on my second playthrough, this time on Hard mode. The game's difficulty levels are actually accurate for once. I don't feel like Medium should be the Easy mode, and Hard should be Medium, and so forth. Med is how the game should be played by the average player, Hard is actually hard, and I'm not even sure I want to try Elite...

Sorry bout your console though dude.

lol...i get you Levi. Funny thing is, I beat Killzone 2 already. I was playing the multiplayer when the ps3 went kaput. I like the campaign too. It was nothing special, but it didn't leave me with a let down feeling like R2. Last chapter was sick; i died so much.

No worries about the PS3. Data has been backed up and will be sent out for repairs soon. I was going to mess with the laser assembly, but I was hearing that there were a lot of crappy china made lasers circulating so I went with the sony repairs route.

I have to admit, this is awesome. I love when a developer releases a game for $10 that I really enjoy and they make money. Win, win, win.

I'd be interested in what their staffing was on the project?

Sure if you have five employees, you are going to make profit quickly.

This game sucks. Why would anyone waste their money on it.

Can any of you give me a little insight about these games? Are there demos? I keep hearing they're great, but I don't want to drop money on something that might be the best of a genre I don't like: IE: Psychonauts.

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