This is the first time March revenues have beat 10m, with a rise of 41 percent over 2009’s. Newcomer Toy Soldiers sold over 209,000 downloads.
In fact Toy Soldiers was the biggest seller of the month as it moved 209,000 downloads and earned $3.14 million in revenue. In second place was the Nintendo 64 Perfect Dark, all spruced up, pushing 161,000 downloads and raking in $1.61 million.
The Block Party acted much in the same way as Xbox Live’s annual Summer of Arcade event, which highlights new and big XBLA releases. Also joining in was the free-to-download Game Room.
Forecasting and Analyzing Digital Entertainment (FADE) estimate that Trials HD was the most successful game of the month with lifetime revenues reaching $10 million. Not bad, not bad at all. Perhaps the Block Party will become an annual event too?
Here are the top XBLA March 2010 contenders:
Toy Soldiers - 209,000 units ($3.14m)
Perfect Dark - 161,000 units ($1.61m)
Trials HD - 53,000 units ($0.80m)
Battlefield 1943 - 37,000 units ($0.56m)
Castle Crashers - 34,000 units ($0.51m)
Hasbro Family Game Night - 32,000 units ($0.32m)
Scrap Metal - 18,000 units ($0.27m)
Marvel vs. Capcom - 25,000 units ($0.25m)
Shadow Complex - 13,000 units ($0.20m)
Magic: The Gathering - 16,000 units ($0.16m)
So far sales have grown only by 5 percent this year compared to 2009’s revenue.
Source: GamesIndustry.biz