But Still Not The Top Seller
Quick off the unofficial report from this morning, we now have more scientific and more official numbers on how Sonic 4 fared its debut month on XBOX Live, though they still come from a third party research firm–FADE, or Forecasting and Analyzing Digital Entertainment.
The results published on UK based CVG today indicate Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I fared significantly better than the most liberal GamerBytes estimate, to the tune of 98,000 copies sold on the system. That’s very good news for Sega, with the only drawback being it still came in second overall for XBLA October sales. The top spot, according to FADE, went to Capcom’s Dead Rising 2: Case Zero, which was a third the price of Sonic 4 and moved 104,000 copies. The blue blur did beat Super Meat Boy, however, which FADE says only sold about 70,000 copies.
The FADE report says $11.2 million in sales were generated by XBOX Live Arcade last month. Thanks to Cog for pointing us in the direction of these updated results through a comment on this morning’s story.
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Hey Tristan, could you obtain the PSN figures if you can pls?
It shall be noted that previous chart counted only people who connected to leaderboards, and not many done that.
I’m interested in the other sales too.
Considering people believe (I forget if there is any evidence or not) not very many people connect their Wiis to the internet and the fact that Sonic sells better on Nintendo consoles, I’m curious to know where the Sonic 4 Wii sales sit at.
98,000 digital copies x $15 = $1, 470, 000
If you make the assumption that the Wii, PSN, and XBL versions all sold the EXACT same amount of copies, then the profit from those would be: $4,410,000. That’s 4.4 million dollars. I bet the Sega Execs are forming a kickline and singing “We’re in the money”.
And who knows? Maybe it’ll even sell a few copies this month and in December.
@The Magical Dreamer
4.4 million dollars is a lot of profit for a game that took a couple of cents to make. XD