58 percent increase in XBLA sales during Summer of Arcade program

Microsoft has announced that the five week Summer of Arcade program on the Xbox Live Arcade, which saw the release of great titles like Braid, Bionic Commando: Rearmed, Castle Crushers and Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 was a big success that saw a 58 percent increase in unique members purchasing titles on the XBLA.

”At E3, we committed to re-focusing the Xbox Live Arcade business, vowing to release bigger and better games while focusing on quality and not quantity,” said Marc Whitten, general manager of Xbox Live.

”The debut of the new strategy proved to be a huge success, with the Summer of Arcade making August the highest grossing month to date. But the focus on quality games doesn’t stop with the Summer of Arcade. We have plenty more great titles coming out in the next few months and beyond that we think will continue to fuel this incredible momentum.”

Microsoft is keeping up with the good releases as Duke Nukem 3D has just come out on the Xbox Live Arcade, with Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie coming soon.