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XBLA game sales and revenue for 2011 release


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Xbox Live generated a record $144 million In revenue in 2011, according to a new report issued by the Research & Analysis division of analyst firm Forecasting & Analyzing Digital Entertainment, LLC (a.k.a. FADE). Sales of titles on XBLA grew by 18%, with Ubisoft's From Dust as the single highest-grossing title on the service in 2011. From Dust sold 308,000 thousand units with a total sales gross of $4.6 million. The most-downloaded paid title on XBLA in 2011 was Microsoft's Full House Poker, which sold 375,000 copies and generated $3.6 million in revenue.

 

FADE attributes the success of these high-grossing XBLA titles to Microsoft's “Summer of Arcade” promotion, with seven of the service's ten top-grossing XBLA games seeing launch as Summer of Arcade titles. Some surprising entries in the top ten including Castle Crashers, in its fourth year of sales on Xbox Live, still selling 335,000 copies to gross $4.6 million in revenue. FADE puts Castle Crashes at #2 on the top grossing list, behind From Dust, though the profit margins for a four-year-old game are probably much fatter than those of a new release.

 

Overall, FADE considers Castle Crashers the single highest-selling and highest-grossing title released in the history of digital download games, moving over 2 million copies across XBLA and PSN. Emerging new hits include Fruit Ninja Kinect, which moved 323,000 copies in 2011 with a major spike in downloads over the holidays (likely due to the download code tie-in with The Gunstringer). Downloadable RPGs also have a strong representation on the top-selling list, with the XBLA versions of Torchlight, Bastion, and Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale filling out the #7, #9, and #10 positions on the list (respectively).

 

You can check out FADE's complete top ten list of top-selling XBLA titles by number of units sold in 2011 below.

 

Estimated Top Selling Titles, by Units Sold (Annual, 2011)

1. Full House Poker (Microsoft Game Studios) - 375,000 Units / $3.6 Million USD

2. Castle Crashers (The Behemoth) - 335,000 Units / $4.6 Million USD

3. Fruit Ninja Kinect (Halfbrick Studios) - 324,000 Units / $3.2 Million USD

4. From Dust (Ubisoft) - 308,000 Units / $4.6 Million USD

5. Trials HD (RedLynx, LTD) - 286,000 Units / $4.0 Million USD

6. Magic: The Gathering (Stainless Games) - 278,000 Units / $2.7 Million USD

7. Torchlight (Runic Games) - 272,000 Units / $4.0 Million USD

8. Toy Soldiers: Cold War (Signal Studios) - 241,000 Units / $3.6 Million USD

9. Bastion (Supergiant Games) - 241,000 Units / $3.6 Million USD

10. Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale (Bedlam Games) - 210,000 Units / $2.8 Million USD

 

SOURCE: From Dust Highest Grossing Game of 2011, as Xbox Live Arcade Market Sees Growth in 2011 [Press release]

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