XNA community games downloaded 750,000 times

by Dustin Burg { Mar 14th 2008 at 12:30PM }

Today, as we churned through February's NPD numbers, we came across an interesting number that was included as part of Microsoft's NPD press release. The magic number is 750,000 and it's the number of times the seven free XNA games were downloaded the week after GDC. Microsoft's internal estimates peg the seven XNA games (including gems like Dishwasher: Dead Samurai, JellyCar and Little Gamers) were downloaded around 750,000 times over Xbox Live and, by our internal calculations, that sounds like a lot! Hopefully the exposure these downloads received not only got gamers excited for their release, but excited for the big XNA community games rollout later this Fall. Bring on the free XNA goodness already, bring it!

Tags: community-games, dishwasher, dishwasher-dead-samurai, jellycar, little-gamers, xbla, xna, xna-games

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Scott @ Mar 14th 2008 12:37PM

That JellyCar was a good time. Even though I found myself playing Proximity HD CONSTANTLY. So simple, yet a real good and fast game to play when just killing a few minutes before dinner.

Tony @ Mar 14th 2008 12:39PM

I think that's more impressive than it initially sounds given some of the things you have to do to even access the games... I have to imagine anyone not paying attention to sites at the time would be unlikely to even know about the stuff.

james.e.silva @ Mar 14th 2008 2:34PM

XNA FTW!

:D

Morgon @ Mar 14th 2008 1:02PM

My guess is that it's the number of times each game was downloaded, combined.

So, out of all 7 games, if the average download was say, 3, we're talking about only about 250,000 unique users.

Which is still a decent number of people, don't get me wrong.. after all, 250,000 * $5 is 1.2 million per game, and these authors did it as a hobby.

ZEBRA NINER @ Mar 14th 2008 1:15PM

How about releasing those games? You know... the full version, and making some money? Hmmm?

Dishwasher, Jelly Car, and Little Gamers are purchases I'll gladly make.

emirabal @ Mar 14th 2008 1:19PM

I have looked for these titles all over live and have not found them, anybody help me on this one.

JAKEJAX @ Mar 14th 2008 2:23PM

This game will get my money only if I can get an X3F achievement.

lysernix @ Mar 14th 2008 2:37PM

Get Dishwasher out the door! Can't wait to play this campaign co-op.

lysernix @ Mar 14th 2008 2:39PM

Oh and @ emirabal:

You had to download a XNA Launcher out of extra downloads, or all downloads... and then go to the games blade where a special XNA seciton now was, and *then* download the games individually. Sadly I think its all expired now... *sniff* that Dishwasher was seriously a ton of fun. I didn't get a chance to try the others.