Ouya Developers Reveal Sales Figures

<p>Recently speaking to both Edge and Gamasutra&comma; some game developers for the recently released Ouya console have shared their sales figures&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The console launched June 25th at retail&comma; so keep in mind that the console has been on the market for nearly a month now&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>TowerFall&comma; arguably the most popular title on the Ouya console&comma; was developed by Matt Thorson who has stated that the game has sold well&comma; shifting 2000 units at &dollar;15 each &lpar;that&&num;8217&semi;s &dollar;30&comma;000 before Ouya fees&comma; Math-Fans&excl;&rpar; and said&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>&&num;8220&semi;Sales have been surprisingly high for a new game on a new console&period; The game has definitely proven itself on Ouya&comma; I think there&&num;8217&semi;s enough demand to warrant bringing it to PC&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>NimbleBit&comma; who developed Nimble Quest&comma; have had their title downloaded a total of 6&comma;508 times although it was only purchased 122 times &lpar;keep in mind that with Ouya&comma; all games feature a trial or demo&comma; with no purchase necessary&rpar;&comma; this has generated a total of &dollar;427 profit&period; The co-founder of NimbleBit&comma; David Marsh said&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>&&num;8220&semi;It’s probably not going to be a huge source of income compared to other platforms&comma; but it’s dead easy to submit a game and get it into the store&period; It’s the only console right now with a truly open store&comma; which makes it interesting and worth supporting if you want to see more open platforms&period; It’s also a great device to have just to check out all sorts of neat experimental multiplayer games that are already popping up&period; I think it’s a step in the right direction&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Other developers also spoke out in regards to sales figures with Knife Media &lpar;developers of twin-stick shooter &&num;8216&semi;Red&&num;8217&semi;&rpar; saying that they broke even within two and a half weeks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;edge-online&period;com&sol;news&sol;are-indies-making-any-money-from-ouya&sol;">Edge<&sol;a> &amp&semi; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gamasutra&period;com&sol;view&sol;feature&sol;196691&sol;the&lowbar;ouya&lowbar;experience&lowbar;what&lowbar;game&lowbar;&period;php&quest;page&equals;2">Gamasutra<&sol;a> via GameSpot&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"zemanta-pixie" style&equals;"margin-top&colon; 10px&semi; height&colon; 15px&semi;"><img class&equals;"zemanta-pixie-img" style&equals;"border&colon; none&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;img&period;zemanta&period;com&sol;pixy&period;gif&quest;x-id&equals;a815d62e-9d1c-42d3-8eac-01ee627fe240" alt&equals;"" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;