Downloadable game sales are up on the Xbox LIVE Arcade. According to a press release from Forecasting and Analyzing Digital Entertainment (FADE), XBLA games were up 34%, reaching $103.4 million in sales worldwide. Battlefield 1943 led the bunch, hitting over 800,000 units sold and becoming the fastest selling XBLA game to date.
Here are the top 10 XBLA game sellers for 2009, according to estimates by FADE:
Battlefield 1943 (EA Dice) – $12.5 million ($15.00)
Castle Crashers (The Behemoth) – $7.3 million ($15.00)
Trials HD (RedLynx, LTD) – $7.1 million ($15.00)
Shadow Complex (Chair Entertainment / Epic Games) – $6.1 million ($14.38)
Family Game Night (Hasbro) – $4.2 million ($9.53)
Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (Capcom) – $4.2 million ($15.00)
Magic: The Gathering (Stainless Games) – $2.8 million ($10.00)
Worms 2 (Team 17) – $1.8 million ($10.00)
Peggle (PopCap Games) – $1.8 million ($8.86)
Turtles in Time: Reshelled (Ubisoft Singapore) – $1.7 million ($10.00)
FADE attributed sales boosts for games like Marvel vs. Capcom and Trials HD thanks to the Summer of Arcade program (surely the countdown to the New Year deals helped as well for games like Battlefield 1943). FADE is also forecasting XBLA games will continue to sell well in 2010, especially with the help of Project Natal at the end of the year.
From FADE
