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SoMI:SE sells 40, 000 in first week on XBLA

Hero1Hero1
edited July 2009 in Tales of Monkey Island
As well as being #1 on steams top sellers list, SoMI has come out strong with 40, 000 sales in the first week! This is a great sign..surely LucasArts will start with some more HD remakes after this! :D

Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2009/07/20/secret-of-monkey-island-has-strong-start-on-steam/

Comments

  • jeditribblejeditribble
    edited July 2009
    Hm, sounds good.

    I was trying to buy from direct2drive, but couldn't, because I don't have a US billing address - even though I am currently in the US! Grrr ...
  • pilouuuupilouuuu
    edited July 2009
    Great! Monkey Island 2 LeChuck's Revenge Special Edition next please!
  • IrishmileIrishmile
    edited July 2009
    Heck maybe they will make more than just one title next.
  • Super BoscoSuper Bosco
    edited July 2009
    That's awesome! I myself haven't gotten it yet but plan to sometimes later. Its great to see this wave of adventure gaming starting to infect the consoles.
  • priznaprizna
    edited July 2009
    does anyone know how many "copies" were sold on steam in the first week
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited July 2009
    I don't think Valve likes to release Steam sales figures.
  • Hero1Hero1
    edited July 2009
    Yeah Valve doesn't release figures, I think I read somewhere that top games on steam sell between 10-15,000 ? So you'd think atleast that amount
  • Toothless GibbonToothless Gibbon
    edited July 2009
    I wonder how sales of Tales compares...

    Also, say they sell 100,000 copies of SoMI:SE. Is that a lot in the scheme of things?

    About $1m revenue?
  • SilverwolfpetSilverwolfpet
    edited July 2009
    Yeah, how can we compare it to the overall costs of production? Maybe someone that works in the industry can estimate a value...
  • Toothless GibbonToothless Gibbon
    edited July 2009
    It had to cost a few hundred thousand dollars to produce the SE at least?
  • GibbeynatorGibbeynator
    edited July 2009
    I hope this convinces LucasArts to put "Star Wars Battlefront 12: We're Back on Hoth" on the backburner to remake their old SCUMM games.
  • Dan2593Dan2593
    edited July 2009
    Gibbeynator wrote: »
    I hope this convinces LucasArts to put "Star Wars Battlefront 12: We're Back on Hoth" on the backburner to remake their old SCUMM games.

    Excuse me Battlefront is one of the only decent Star Wars games out.
    Theres only been 2 and frankly if I had a choice between a SE of an old game, and a sequel to a new one. I would chose the later

    Unless it's a sequel to a crap tacular
  • harlequ1nharlequ1n
    edited July 2009
    I know Star Wars is big among a lot of people but after the movies I just couldn't stand the same thing over and over. I was very angry at Lucas' apparent decision not to do anything besides SW until the current Monkey madness.
  • GibbeynatorGibbeynator
    edited July 2009
    Exactly. How many times can you fly the Death Star trench before it gets repetitive?
  • ArmakuniArmakuni
    edited July 2009
    40.000? Pff, this game deserves a lot more sales than that!
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited July 2009
    The older Star Wars games were actually good. The newer ones are all garbage. Except KOTOR, apparently.
  • ShepardShepard
    edited July 2009
    MusicallyInspired wrote: »
    The older Star Wars games were actually good. The newer ones are all garbage. Except KOTOR, apparently.

    KOTOR is GREAT, my favourite star wars game :)
  • RandulfRandulf
    edited July 2009
    The market realities have surely changed.
  • werpuwerpu
    edited July 2009
    Gibbeynator wrote: »
    Exactly. How many times can you fly the Death Star trench before it gets repetitive?

    Numerous times, the first one was the Atari arcade machine from 1982 or so :-)
  • Hero1Hero1
    edited July 2009
    Randulf wrote: »
    The market realities have surely changed.

    where's that mike nelson guy?
  • ArmakuniArmakuni
    edited July 2009
    MusicallyInspired wrote: »
    The older Star Wars games were actually good. The newer ones are all garbage. Except KOTOR, apparently.
    I loved the SNES ones.

    I was never much into space sim stuff, so I didn't play the old X-Wing games and all that... but I had friends that obsessed with those games.
  • Hero1Hero1
    edited July 2009
    I think I played pretty much everything Lucasarts released in the early to mid 90s.. good times
  • CorvCorv
    edited July 2009
    - X-Wing
    - TIE Fighter

    Those are still two of the best flight simulations of all time. People still play them.

    - Dark Forces was an awesome FPS and so where the 2 Jedi Knight games after that.

    Those games weren't just good but outstanding. Everything after that was mediocre at best with the exception of KOTOR.
  • onemanandhisdroidonemanandhisdroid
    edited July 2009
    ;) Epic wish their last game had sold in numbers like this. True, the price is low, but we're talking about a twenty years old "clunker" here. None too shabby.
  • J ThreepwoodJ Threepwood
    edited July 2009
    Im sure thats a lot more than they thought in the first week, good job
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