Toy Soldiers does big business in March

by Justin McElroy on Apr 15th 2010 12:30PM

Gamasutra has the analysis of the March Xbox Live Arcade sales and (as you probably could have predicted even without a Farsight XR-20) the revamped FPS Perfect Dark did well with around 195,000 units sold. But the big surprise of the month has to be the tower-defense/action hybrid Toy Soldiers that, with little in the way of marketing, reached nearly 240,000 units by the end of the month-long Block Party.

Sure, Toy Soldiers had two more weeks (its March 1 launch versus Perfect Dark's arrival on the 15th), but it's still a convincing testament to the power of word of mouth (word of Tweet?) advertising, especially in the download space.

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Tags: perfect-dark, toy-soldiers, xbla, xbla-block-party

Reader Comments (2)

After watching Toy Story when I was younger, I never treated my toys like crap ever again.

thanks that was very insightful. Anyway.

Toy soldiers was the best arcade game I have ever played in my life.
If you have not bought it yet I suggest you do. Don't read tower defense and think hey I hate tower defense I will pass.

If you like guns or war or tower defense or killing things :p. Then try the demo at least. Plus the game comes with gamerpics a free gas mask for your avatar and a free german helmet for your avatar when you win the game.

And the crazy part is the gas mask
looks better than the ones for sale on marketplace.

Don't wait for this game to go on sale for 800 because it isn't going to happen any time soon!