VGCharts reports Xbox Live Arcade Sales were topsy-turvy, as older games have taken a huge boost, while newer games had massive drops.
Metal Slug 3 debuts on the top of the All Games charts, with an estimated 7,700 units of sale.
It seems that after Christmas, many new Xbox 360 owners were searching the various games, buying up mostly older titles. Games in the # 40-75 recieved huge boosts in certain areas. Games such as Castlevainia: SOTN, Worms, Street Fighter, and such recieved boosts.
Top 10 Debuts of XBLA games since 11/10/07:
1 Metal Slug 3 7,781
2 Arkadian Warriors 5,844
3 Switchball 5,157
4 Word Puzzle 4,902
5 Sensible World of Soccer 4,247
6 Undertow 2,598
7 Screwjumper! 2,173
8 Gripshift 1,980
9 Tempest 1,569
10 Spongebob Underpants Slam! 1,385
As a bonus for downloading all 10 games digitally, an eleventh title is being made available, and it's a Famicom demake of the critically-acclaimed 2007 outing Pac-Man Championship Edition.
M2 is handling porting duties on this package, and director Naoki Horii has been explaining how this game came to be, and as revealed that it was actually intended to appear on the 3DS.
So many great games, so many franchises saved by developers revisiting exactly what it is players want. Hopefully, other developers wallowing in mediocrity can look to these games as blueprints for what they should do going forward.
Build up to 4 super-satisfying ghost trains to pac down on.
