Xbox Live Arcade Purchases and Purchasers growing healthily

[Zeus]

New stats reveal that puchases and purchasers on the Xbox Live Arcade network have been steadily growing since the launch of the system. More noticeably, there was a huge spike with the announcement of Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday updates and during Konami's double release of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and TMNT 1989. Microsoft also estimated there will be over 100 games on XBLA by the end of the year and a massive 45 million downloads.

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At his GameFest lecture on Xbox Live Arcade development, platform manager Mark Coates revealed fascinating stats on the growth of XBLA games, including chart-toppers Street Fighter II and TMNT.

Coates offered stats on the Xbox Live Arcade service in addition to those given out yesterday by Microsoft casual division manager Marc Whitten, which showed Microsoft predictions of 45 million downloads and more than 100 games on Xbox Live Arcade by the end of 2007, as well as a 156% average financial return over 12 months for Xbox Live Arcade titles published so far.


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[funnybutrandom]

woop and i count to one of thoes Purchases, worms for the win !!!!!

on a more serious note, you can see why microsoft bump up prices for crappy things they sell on the market place, major nelson takes loads of crap from people complaining about the prices, but in the end they crack and buy it, i dont blame them, after spending 1 billion on us :rolleyes:

[Xenogears V]

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

:eek: What!?!.

[yourM0M1]

ya and ill be paying the ripoff price on Hexic 2...but oh well its got plenty of replay value so the cost wont matter in the end...2p battle against the gf when we get back in town...

[jerzmob]

Lies Lies Lies Yeah!!!!:d

[funnybutrandom]

Lies Lies Lies Yeah!!!!:d

reminds me of some other company