XBLA doin' pretty aight for itself

[Zeus]

$46M in the first half of 2010, with a lot of older titles in the top 10 (like Castle Crashers)

http://www.next-gen.biz/news/xbla-sales ... lf-of-2010

I'd really love to see similar figures for PSN and the VC/WiiWare to get an idea of how this is in comparison to their competitors.

[SineSwiper]

The other two are too afraid to post their numbers.

[Don]

I wonder if there's some law that says you're supposed to post these numbers. Retail stores has to post numbers so you know when McDonald's or Walmart is taking a loss, but it seems like gaming stuff can just not talk about the numbers when they're not going well.

[Zeus]

The other two are too afraid to post their numbers.

There were estimates sometime last year where Nintendo has sold something in the neighbourhood of 33 million VC titles, but nothing since and never any word on PSN sales

[SineSwiper]

There were estimates sometime last year where Nintendo has sold something in the neighbourhood of 33 million VC titles, but nothing since and never any word on PSN sales

If those were totals, that's not that great. The Wii has been around for a while. Granted, something on the order of $200 million total is nothing to sneeze at. But, if XBLA is pulling $46M in 6 months, without any great releases during that time, that's a lot more money.

Proof that the 360 is the king of the economy gaming market.

I wonder if there's some law that says you're supposed to post these numbers. Retail stores has to post numbers so you know when McDonald's or Walmart is taking a loss, but it seems like gaming stuff can just not talk about the numbers when they're not going well.

Depends on the numbers. By law, you have to post your profits, but you don't exactly have to split them up into different profit/expense categories.

[Don]

If I owned two fastfood franchises, McDonald and Anti-McDonald I don't think I can just post my net profit is 0 even though one is hugely successful and the other is canceling out the former's success.

I'm sure the law is on the side for not posting these numbers, but I find the law in this case to be rather strange.

[Zeus]

Guess there are actual figures for Nintendo. Looks like WiiWare + Virtual Console pulled in $125M in 2009

http://beefjack.com/news/wiiware-virtua ... int-money/

Not too shabby. XBLA might pull in a bit more ultimately but it's pretty close