{"id":50087,"date":"2013-02-02T14:03:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T12:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=50087"},"modified":"2013-02-02T15:03:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T13:03:35","slug":"xbox-live-arcade-sees-boost-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/50087-xbox-live-arcade-sees-boost-in-2012","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Live Arcade doubles revenue in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s Xbox Live Arcade service saw strong growth in 2012, primarily due to the popularity of some big games.<\/p>\n<p>Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA) pulled in the big bucks, and earned Microsoft a cool $290 million, which was double that of 2011\u2019s revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Minecraft was one of the big hitters, and the sandbox block-building game roped in an estimated $97.4 million, and sold more than 500,000 copies in December 2012 alone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Minecraft has been beyond impressive&#8221;, said Benjamin Schlichter, Director of Research &amp; Analysis at Forecasting &amp; Analyzing Digital Entertainment (FADE). &#8220;Not only is it the top-grossing title in XBLA history, it achieved the feat in approximately three weeks&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There were some other impressive showings on XBLA in 2012:<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Estimated Top Ten XBLA Titles in 2012, Ordered by Gross Revenues<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Minecraft (4J Studios) &#8211; 4,997,000 Units \/ $97,388,000<\/li>\n<li>Trials Evolution (RedLynx, LTD) &#8211; 1,002,000 Units \/ $14,298,000<\/li>\n<li>The Walking Dead (TellTale Games) &#8211; 2,615,000 Units \/ $10,277,000<\/li>\n<li>Counterstrike: GO (Valve) &#8211; 273,000 Units \/ $3,973,000<\/li>\n<li>Castle Crashers (The Behemoth) &#8211; 252,000 Units \/ $3,778,000<\/li>\n<li>Gotham City Impostors (Monolith Productions) &#8211; 258,000 \/ $3,698,000<\/li>\n<li>I Am Alive (Ubisoft) &#8211; 245,000 Units \/ $3,609,000<\/li>\n<li>Tony Hawk&#8217;s PS HD (Robomodo) &#8211; 226,000 Units \/ $3,261,000<\/li>\n<li>Alan Wake&#8217;s American Nightmare (Remedy Entertainment) &#8211; 206,000 Units \/ $2,903,000<\/li>\n<li>Trials HD (RedLynx, LTD) &#8211; 203,000 \/ $2,799,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Xbox news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49693-top-xbox-live-games-and-top-games-for-windows-live.html\">Top Xbox LIVE games and top Games for Windows LIVE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49653-next-gen-ps4-orbis-and-xbox-durango-hardware-details.html\">Next-gen PS4 Orbis and Xbox Durango hardware details<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49635-too-human-pulled-from-xbox-live.html\">Too Human pulled from Xbox Live<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49617-sa-black-ops-2-console-players-get-competitive-ladders-tournaments.html\">SA Black Ops 2 console players get competitive ladders, tournaments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49625-halo-4-spartan-ops-season-one-content-rollout-detailed.html\">Halo 4 Spartan Ops: Season One content rollout detailed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XBLA has a healthy 2012 thanks to Minecraft and other titles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":49694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8625,8626,21,91,8627,333,847,89,1933],"class_list":["post-50087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-arcade-gaming","tag-gaming-in-2012","tag-headline","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-earnings","tag-minecraft","tag-xbla","tag-xbox-live","tag-xbox-live-arcade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50115,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50087\/revisions\/50115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}