Infinity Blade more successful than Shadow Complex, Rein says

This game could totally work with Kinect or a regular gamepad.
Just sayin'. . . I'd buy it. . .

He may mean in relation to the cost of development of the game being cheaper, so the gross margin being higher.

He may mean in relation to the cost of development being cheaper, so the gross margin being higher.

This is not good news. Could mean more mobile app games and less full fledged arcade games.

Well of course it did. there was 2 factors as to why it sold better...

1) Cheaper

2) The fact that iphone/ipad users are desperate for games that pushes the device. you put out a game thats graphically better than all of the iphone library and it will sell.

This is good news for future projects from Epic on the App Store, although I think that was a given considering how happy they were over the initial take up of Infinity Blade.

What about apple's 30% take on all downloads? I know MS gets a cut too but you need to factor those facts too. Fuzzy math there David.

A side note, why isn't this on the Droid Marketplace yet?

It may have sold more, but it definitely isn't as good. Black Ops has sold 20 million copies...

This game might be more successful than Shadow Complex, but its nowhere near as good. Infinity Blade is essentially punch out meet dungeons and dragons, but once you go through one bloodline you've literally seen everything. The game is a good time waster for a minutes, but I hope he doesn't get too hopped up on this.

Of course, had they released Shadow Complex on Steam...

Both excellent games. I look forward to ChAIR's next offering. (:

As long as both are considered successes. That's a funny word, successes.

Shadow Complex deserves to sell at the very least 1 million units.

Come on, "gamers".

Ya know, people say that if the game isn't made for a bleeding edge PC it is made for casuals, or holding gaming back, etc.

But really, games like this, they make developers work around something. Figure out how render things quicker and better. Hard core optimizing. Instead of relying on a high end machine to just brute-force everything.

Games like this are actually pushing gaming farther, and while I do not own an i-device, I really hope to see more amazing things like this happen.

Hopefully this doesn't mean more Infinity Blade and less Shadow Complex. Shadow Complex was soooo good. And no, I don't want Shadow Complex on the iPhone either. >=[

Hopefully this doesn't mean they won't make a sequel to shadow complex. The first one was an amazing game.

Imagine how much more successful it would have been if it had worked on all iPhone devices?

@Optimaximal

i just don't see how playing a game like shadow complex with a keyboard and mouse is desirable in any way.

Joystiq, success is defined by revenue and profits, not necessarily quantity sold.

Let's take sales qty * sales price for both games (using the approximate figures provided):
Infinity Blade - $8,161,719
Shadow Complex - $8,175,345

Of course that assumes all downloads came from full sales price instead of free vouchers or during holiday sales promotions, but the point is to notice that both titles sold EQUALLY well from a revenue standpoint, at least based on the information provided in this article.

Now, it might be fair to say one game was more *profitable* than the other, but we have no way of knowing what dev costs on both games were. Furthermore, while I know iOS takes a 30% cut I don't know what XBLA's cut is (Xbox Indie takes 30%, so I'm assuming it's comparable to that) nor what the XBLA developer subscription fee is. Unless someone has these figures available, let's just say the Apple and MS's per unit distribution costs are identical.

Therefore, the only way Infinity Blade was MORE successful is if it had substantially lower production costs compared to Shadow Complex.

It's simply lazy to state, "Infinity Blade has been more successful than Shadow Complex" without actually doing some very basic retail math calculations.

As the developer they can post it directly to the App Store and get 70% of gross revenues.

With the Xbox Live Marketplace, after MSFT and a publisher have taken cuts, the developer is left with only about ~30% of gross revenues.

Epic probably made about the same off each $6 iOS game and $15 XBLM game.

nice job, guys. this game looks awesome- but due to my not owning a compatible idevice (and i never will) i haven't had a chance to play this one, yet. i do, however- have shadow complex and i am in the minority of people who think it's average at best, and dull at it's worst. if there was a way for me to trade in my more expensive Shadow Complex for Infinity Blade