Correct if I'm wrong, but wasn't it the only game alongside with Warframe everyone recommended on PS4?
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Towerfall sold best on PS4 ($500k sold, 7k units on Ouya)
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Correct if I'm wrong, but wasn't it the only game alongside with Warframe everyone recommended on PS4?
IAmRandom31
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When other indies see these guys selling 500K+ on the PS4 with more and more customers coming into the fold every day .. yeah ... this thing might challenge Steam soon.
Visualante2
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PS4 going to start stealing indies from PC exclusively if that momentum keeps up. Dayum.
GreatMightySymp
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Never picked it up since I don't have any friends around my area to play it with.
Good to hear the sales were good, though.
Good to hear the sales were good, though.
ethomaz
Banned
To be fair seems like Awesomenauts and Fez sold more than Towerfall... and SteamWorld Dig come close too.
Indies are selling really good on PS4.
Ludicrous Speed
Banned
PC will catch up to and pass the PS4 version shortly. I, along with countless others, are waiting for a steam sale.
So... all these games sold more than ~250k thousand downloads?
Missing Asian PSN sales, but still... Sounds wrong.
Are we're sure it's not 50k? I can't watch the video.
Indeed. Let's wait for the April PSN best sellers to see if TowerFall is still in.
Rogue_Ledr
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It was close tho, right?
Bro, that is disturbing on so many levels.
IAmRandom31
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Which is very good to hear as a lover of indie's atm.
Can't wait for games like Rogue Galaxy, OlliOlli, Starbound, Hotline Miami, etc.
Hotline Miami 2 may break 1,000,000+
Not challenge, but if it continues and improves on having careful and almost simultaneous indie releases, it will very much be a viable platform for indies to prioritize.
And that's with "only" 7 million consoles so far.
Come to think of it, the number seems a bit... off. I wouldn't be too surprised if it was 50k total. Hmm.
lightning2k3
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And tons of people are waiting for the game to go on sale or free for ps+. I think the real issue that steam has is that they have too many things coming out and games cant get the marketing attention they need to do well. Sometimes a more curated model like PSN does wonders for sales for those who are lucky enough to be part of those marketing deals.
I think most indies know better.
It's so, so good. Even the single player mode!
I'm sad because practically no one I saw at PAX East heard of the game and it would have been perfect in the comsole rooms or whatever they were called.
Yep. DarkLord (lol) fucked up.
SolidSnakex
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Interfectum
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Interesting that it sold more on PS4 than Steam. Could be a sign of an over-saturated market on the Steam store and/or starving gamers on PS4.
ethomaz
Banned
PS4 version sold the best... 7k for Ouya... 500k all plataform (PC/PS4/Ouya)... so minimum of 247k for PS4.
And yeap... these others games sold more than Towerfall in the biggest markets (US and EU) but you need to face maybe Towerfall sold 150k in US (#6) and 50k in EU (#19).
Edit - I forgot April sales... so the sales in March can be lower.
chrominance
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I'd totally forgotten this was the Ouya golden child. Crazy how no one talked about it until the PS4 release, and then suddenly it was the hot new game everyone had to try. Looks really awful for Ouya.
Not surprised about PC not doing as well, it's really not a conducive setup for local multiplayer in most cases. I mean, you CAN do it, and god knows I spend most of my time gaming on PC, but it wouldn't really occur to me to plug multiple controllers into my PC to play a multiplayer game.
Not surprised about PC not doing as well, it's really not a conducive setup for local multiplayer in most cases. I mean, you CAN do it, and god knows I spend most of my time gaming on PC, but it wouldn't really occur to me to plug multiple controllers into my PC to play a multiplayer game.
Or it could end on on ps+ and there will be potentially even more earnings on ps4 then pc. Why does everything have to be a pissing contest. Congrats to the One developer who created this game. I dont think it would sell as well on pc unless there is online multiplayer added.
IAmRandom31
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Nah he states it is doing well enough to support him for a long time.
You wouldn't get that sort of financial backing from 50,000 sales of a 15$ indie game.
It is front and center on the PSN indies page, along with other sections of PSN. So 500K sales would not shock me.
If it goes on a humble bundle, sure. Otherwise? Not likely( see Retro City Rampage)
hodayathink
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Yeah. Given that the 3 platforms are Ouya, Steam, and PSN, and they give a number for Ouya, mathematically it's > 246.5k, and realistically, it's probably above 250K. And given that 2 other indie games placed above it in March in the US and EU, that means that, at least right now, there's a very nice amount of sales to be had for indie games on PSN.
We are also ignoring that there's all of April to reach that 500k number.
Either way, it sheds a bit of light on Ground Zeroes' digital sales. The game did around 350k physical if I'm not mistaken. 150k or so for digital would be a very high split!
SteveWinwood
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Well the major difference there is that most have heard that tower fall is actually good, as opposed to that game that took years to come out and then was just kind of boring.
How does it's doing well mean it's not doing well?
ethomaz
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Ohhhhh I forgot that.... April sales... you are right.
But even so the sales of the others Indies (eg. Fez) are really good.
Orniletter
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Or indies could keep targeting all platforms (including Nintendo and the PC) so nobody is left out.
500K on every plattform combined has become already 500K+ on PS4. That math.
Are you trying to suggest that everything above Towerfall did more than ~250k? Because you have one big error. The 250K PS4 figure pertains up to recent days - End of April - while the chart you are using is only for March. Towefall PS4 didn't sell 250k in March.
ethomaz
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> 250k.
ethomaz
Banned
No. I'm saying digital sales on PS4 is doing amazing... my guesses it that Towerfall did ~100k in US March and ~30k in EU March... that is my minimum guesses with Towerfall doing the minimum of 250k.
I know. My fascination was about those made-up numbers.
IAmRandom31
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Holy fucken chicken shoryuken. Indies are doing great on ps4.
Wowfunhappy
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Same here. I really hope he makes one...
RedAssedApe
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couch co-op making a comeback it seems. im anti-social though (actually more like most of my RL friends aren't gamers) 
ramoisdead
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Nice, glad the game is finally getting the exposure it deserves. Surprised it's doing well on PS4 than PC but still, a great achievement nonetheless.
The Ouya sales probably means that 75% of people who has an ouya has the game =P
Also this makes me want even more for this game to be released in a Nintendo platform to se a comparison on sales
Want to see if the Smash Bros crowd likes another fun 4 player party fighter to wait for Smash bros 4
Also the fact that there are MUCH more people with 4 controllers on WiiU than on PS4
Also this makes me want even more for this game to be released in a Nintendo platform to se a comparison on sales
Want to see if the Smash Bros crowd likes another fun 4 player party fighter to wait for Smash bros 4
Also the fact that there are MUCH more people with 4 controllers on WiiU than on PS4
TheRealTalker
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500k is pretty amazing in such a short period of time
It is developed by Matt Thorson alone, so you can't expect too much.
I think not adding online had allowed him time and effort required to polish the game, which is good. Also he said he would add online functionality at a later stage, which would be great I suppose.