{"id":9689,"date":"2011-01-27T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"top-10-xbox-live-arcade-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/9689-top-10-xbox-live-arcade-games","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Xbox LIVE Arcade games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft’s Xbox division had a particularly good end to 2010 – in December<\/a> they posted their best hardware sales figures since the Xbox 360 launched, spurred on by the successful launch of the Kinect.<\/p>\n

2010 also turns out to have been a fantastic year for the Xbox LIVE Arcade division of the service, growing to an estimated US$122 million in revenues through the year (according to analyst firm Forecasting & Analyzing Digital Entertainment (FADE)).<\/p>\n

While retail software sales were struggling in 2010, Xbox Live Arcade continued to grow, posting a 16% year-over-year increase in revenues, despite the strengthening of Games on Demand and Indie titles. Growth was across the board, as new releases earned an average of US$816,000 per title on the year – up from approximately US$720,000 USD among new releases the year prior.<\/p>\n

The top title in terms of units sold was Capcom’s ‘Dead Rising 2: Case Zero’ which saw just under 700,000 units sold at US$5.00 per unit. Playdead’s highly-reviewed platformer ‘LIMBO’ was the highest grossing, having recorded roughly US$7.5 million in revenues by years’ end.<\/p>\n

Top selling Xbox LIVE titles, by Units Sold in 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

   1. Dead Rising 2: Case Zero (Blue Castle Games\/Capcom) – 689,000 Units
   2. Trials HD (RedLynx, LTD) – 553,000 Units
   3. LIMBO (Playdead) – 527,000 Units
   4. Castle Crashers (The Behemoth) – 415,000 Units
   5. Toy Soldiers (Signal Studios) – 383,000 Units
   6. Family Game Night [Various Titles (Hasbro)] – 294,000 Units
   7. Monday Night Combat (Uber Entertainment) – 293,000 Units
   8. Perfect Dark (Rare) – 279,000 Units
   9. Battlefield 1943 (EA Dice) – 268,000 Units
  10. Deadliest Warrior: The Game (Pipeworks Software) – 210,000 Units<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sales figures for the top 10 Xbox LIVE Arcade games are in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9689","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\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}