For those interested, please read this part first so you know what you are looking at. Because Microsoft does not release any official numbers, the best way to look at Live Arcade sales is to go to the leaderboards and see the last name on the list and their ranking. Pretty much the only way to do this is to try and get the lowest score on each game so that you do not have to scroll through tens of thousands of people to see the bottom one. So I used my special secret account that nobody uses on my 360, and went to work. It can actually be quite challengeing to suck worse then everyone else, and you only get one shot at it per an account.
Is this accurate? Probably not. It should be pretty close. Some people have multiple accounts on a single 360 which will fudge up the numbers, and some people have bought these games and for one reason or another not posted a score on the leaderboards. This is probably as close as we can get without Microsoft making any sort of announcement.
So I thought it would be interesting to do a monthly chart that shows total sales of each game, monthly sales of each game, and how much money the game has made. Because I do not have every single game, I am going to need some help. The games with a question mark after the sales numbers, are games that I do not own, and had to use my friends leaderboard list to pick the lowest score among them. So those are not accurate. What I need is people who own those games to try and post a low score in them on a seperate account from their main (I used my Japanese one), and then add me to their friends list so I can see the new tally each month. So if you want to help, send me a friends request, and tell me in here exactly what games on the list you posted a low score for.
A few extra notes. I'm not filling in all the extra information until I get more accurate numbers, so this is kind of just a starter chart for now. The Hardwood games are not included because the leaderboards require competitive play, and the numbers would just be to far off. Hexic will not be listed in the top ten games for obvious reasons, but I will list its totals. As far as Hexic is concerned, I tried to get a low score on it, but it looks like there are literally thousands of people with lower scores then me, so if someone wants to challenge themselves to getting under 3750 points, we can get more accurate numbers on it. Remember games with a question mark after them are games I do not own, and need numbers for.
Astropop- 21,321
Bankshot Billiards- 35,136 ???
Bejeweled 2- 50,994 ???
Cloning Clyde- 14,063
Crystal Quest- 29,557
Feeding Frenzy- 50,229
Frogger- 43,416 ???
Gauntlet- 77,394 ???
Geometry Wars- 188,428
Hexic HD- 566,230
Jewel Quest- 18,091 ???
Joust- 45,010
Marble Blast Ultra- 107,886
Mutant Storm Reloaded- 38,726
Outpost Kaloki X- 23,732 ???
Robotron 2084- 22,887
Smash TV- 78,790
Uno- 143,223
Wik Fable of Souls- 15,591
Zuma- 70,264
Some interesting things I discovered while doing this.
Over 20,000 Uno players have not managed to win a single single player game.
Somehow people are managing to get a lower score then 200 on Joust, despite the fact that you get 4 lives, and 50 points each time you die.
The worst finishing time on the first level of Marble Blast Ultra, is over an hour.
Over 40 people purchased Geometry wars between 1am and 2am Central time while I was compiling this list.
Cloning Clyde sold 8500 copies on its first day, and 5410 on its second day.
Games I need info on.
Bankshot Billiards
Bejeweled
Frogger
Gauntlet
Hexic
Jewel Quest
Outpost Kaloki X
Gamertag- C4Lukin
Is this accurate? Probably not. It should be pretty close. Some people have multiple accounts on a single 360 which will fudge up the numbers, and some people have bought these games and for one reason or another not posted a score on the leaderboards. This is probably as close as we can get without Microsoft making any sort of announcement.
So I thought it would be interesting to do a monthly chart that shows total sales of each game, monthly sales of each game, and how much money the game has made. Because I do not have every single game, I am going to need some help. The games with a question mark after the sales numbers, are games that I do not own, and had to use my friends leaderboard list to pick the lowest score among them. So those are not accurate. What I need is people who own those games to try and post a low score in them on a seperate account from their main (I used my Japanese one), and then add me to their friends list so I can see the new tally each month. So if you want to help, send me a friends request, and tell me in here exactly what games on the list you posted a low score for.
A few extra notes. I'm not filling in all the extra information until I get more accurate numbers, so this is kind of just a starter chart for now. The Hardwood games are not included because the leaderboards require competitive play, and the numbers would just be to far off. Hexic will not be listed in the top ten games for obvious reasons, but I will list its totals. As far as Hexic is concerned, I tried to get a low score on it, but it looks like there are literally thousands of people with lower scores then me, so if someone wants to challenge themselves to getting under 3750 points, we can get more accurate numbers on it. Remember games with a question mark after them are games I do not own, and need numbers for.
Astropop- 21,321
Bankshot Billiards- 35,136 ???
Bejeweled 2- 50,994 ???
Cloning Clyde- 14,063
Crystal Quest- 29,557
Feeding Frenzy- 50,229
Frogger- 43,416 ???
Gauntlet- 77,394 ???
Geometry Wars- 188,428
Hexic HD- 566,230
Jewel Quest- 18,091 ???
Joust- 45,010
Marble Blast Ultra- 107,886
Mutant Storm Reloaded- 38,726
Outpost Kaloki X- 23,732 ???
Robotron 2084- 22,887
Smash TV- 78,790
Uno- 143,223
Wik Fable of Souls- 15,591
Zuma- 70,264
Some interesting things I discovered while doing this.
Over 20,000 Uno players have not managed to win a single single player game.
Somehow people are managing to get a lower score then 200 on Joust, despite the fact that you get 4 lives, and 50 points each time you die.
The worst finishing time on the first level of Marble Blast Ultra, is over an hour.
Over 40 people purchased Geometry wars between 1am and 2am Central time while I was compiling this list.
Cloning Clyde sold 8500 copies on its first day, and 5410 on its second day.
Games I need info on.
Bankshot Billiards
Bejeweled
Frogger
Gauntlet
Hexic
Jewel Quest
Outpost Kaloki X
Gamertag- C4Lukin