Minecraft Xbox 360 screenshot… CREATE… ANYTHING! Now the best-selling XBLA game EVER!
Minecraft for Xbox 360 Live Arcade sold 400,000 units to become the best-selling XBLA game of all time, dethroning Trials: Evolution for that title!
This is a huge feat for developer Notch and the Minecraft-brand, and continuing proof that the Indie-darling is a license to print money, and that the game will blow away sales expectations for whatever platform it lands on.
Developer Mojang and creator Markus Persson tweeted the news, saying:
“Well then. Saw the official sales numbers for the first 24 hours of Minecraft Xbox 360, and it’s very, very good. Profitable in an hour.”
Dark Souls Wallpaper as the game sales pass 1.19 million!
Dark Souls has sold 1.19 million copies, helping push Namco to their best fiscal year in sales since 2008! The Japanese publisher’s portfolio was led by From Software’s Dark Souls, the popular sequel to the hit RPG Demon’s Souls, but had a number of other hits as well.
Here is the Dark Souls launch trailer.
Among Namco Bandai’s best-selling titles were Ace Combat: Assault Horizon which sold an astounding 1.7 million copies, and was a reboot of the series following 2006’s Xbox 360-exclusive Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation (which only sold 700,000 copies worldwide). Selling nearly a million copies were the following titles: One Piece: Pirate Warriors (940,000 copies sold), Tales of Xillia (770,000 sold, Japan only. Not out in the West yet), Soulcalibur V (690,000 sold) and Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi (700,000 copies sold).
Those numbers for Soulcalibur V must have been a bit disappointing, as Soulcalibur has always been a huge series for Namco Bandai, to have it beaten out by the latest Japanese RPG in the Tales series seems like it’d be embarrassing.
Here is the Soulcalibur V launch trailer.
All in all, the fiscal year ended with Namco Bandai earning $5.7 billion in revenue, that’s ¥454.2 billion, which is their best since March of 2008 and up 15%. Net profits were $241.8 million (¥19.3 billion) which is also their best performance in four years and 10 times what they earned last year. Dark Souls obviously, was a huge contributor to that haul.
Namco Bandai anticipates a more difficult fiscal year ahead, as the publisher doesn’t have as many heavy hitters in its lineup, although it does have some. They include the sci-fi FPS Inversion, the Fighting game Tekken Tag Tournament 2, a Dragon Ball Z Kinect title for Xbox 360, the international release of One Piece: Pirate Warriors and a PC version of Dark Souls.
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