September 16th 2009 6:49 pm PT

LIVE Activity for week of Sept. 7th

 

Xbox 360 Top LIVE Titles (based on UU’s)
1 Halo 3
2 Call of Duty: WaW
3 Call of Duty 4
4 Gears of War 2
5 Madden NFL 10 (Download the demo)
6 GTA IV
7 FIFA 09
8 FIFA Soccer 10 Demo (Download the demo)
9 Batman: Arkham Asylum (Download the demo)
10 Left 4 Dead

Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions purchased)
1  Trials HD 
2 Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
3  Defense Grid: The Awakening
4  Shadow Complex  
5 Sonic & Knuckles
6  Battlefield 1943
7  Castle Crashers 
8  NBA 2K10 Draft Combine  
9  Marvel vs. Capcom 2   
10  Turtles in Time Re-Shelled 

The above arcade list is based on full versions purchased.

Original Xbox Top Live Titles (based on UU’s)
1 Halo 2
2 Star Wars: Battlfrnt 2
3 Counter-Strike
4 Splinter Cell Chaos
5 Fable
6 Conker: Live Reloaded
7 Doom 3
8 Star Wars: Battlefront
9 SW: Republic Commando
10 SW: KOTOR

Top Indie Games (Full Versions purchased)

1   I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1
2   Avatar Drop 
3   Avatar Golf 
4   Headshot 
5   Track Architect 
6   Warfare Soundboard
7   The Drinking Game  
8   Miner Dig Deep   
9   The Answer To Life
10 Who Did I Date Last Night  

 

These lists are based on global unique users connected to Xbox Live or in the case of Arcade and Community Games, full versions purchased during the week.

 

Archive By Larry Hryb, Xbox LIVE's Major Nelson

permalink: http://majornelson.com/2009/09/16/live-activity-for-week-of-sept-7th/

  • ZANDEN

    Halo back at the top. That’s what i like to see.

  • PROTEGE420

    Halo gets back on top. surprise surprise

  • Mesmorino

    Well that was inevitable

  • Blue Thunder28

    Sweet.

  • Chitwood7412

    Nice to see Batman still in the top 10. Great game if you have not tried it.

  • Major Nelson

    Notice what the Deal Of The Week promotion did for Puzzle Quest. ;)

  • EV1L SEAN

    Good to see Shadow Complex at no.4, it’s a great game.

  • CLB509

    Nice to see that Trials HD is the most purchased Arcade title again. Shadow Complex was stellar, but Trials is the game that I keep going back to.

  • RingoDot97

    Uh oh!? No Beatles? Kind of suprised!

  • NBA Kirkland

    @Major Nelson Yes, when a Deal of the Week is really a deal people take notice! You think the Lode Runner deal of 33% off to 800 points will give Lode Runner a similar boost??? We’ll see…

  • Exu

    I honestly don’t see Trials’ appeal, but there’s no arguing with the list.

  • NBA Kirkland

    @Exu Then why do you have a Trials gamerpic? :-/

  • Exu

    Because it looks cool, obviously. :D = I won Trials in a contest, and for me personally it’s not one of my best games, but I can’t complain about it too harshly. Just saying, clearly I’m missing that spark that’s led it to top this list two weeks running. Oh well, my loss.

  • Exu

    Oh, one other thing. Lol @ people buying the SoA games after the 800pt rebate deadline passed.

  • Shelldragon3
  • L0rN

    Quote MN:
    Notice what the Deal Of The Week promotion did for Puzzle Quest. ;)
    ————
    I don`t get your comment, Major. Is it some kind of shizophrenic sarkasm?

    Of course we notice that a GOOD DEAL is recognized and loved by the people. This is what we are telling you over and over again. So i really don`t get your comment.

  • CyberKnight

    Yep, good for the deal of the week.

    And yet, games and DLC that have been out since the console’s launch are still up there at their original prices.

    Kinda makes you wonder what would happen if the Xbox Marketplace worked more like the real world marketplace, where things get cheaper over time and people could get a bargain on *all* older content, instead of just one or two choice pieces a week, doesn’t it?

    Very curious.

  • Exu

    And there’s CyberKnight hitting the nail on the head.

  • Searing Wave

    I’ll still be playing Halo 3 beyond 2010. Can’t wait for ODST (and Reach next year)!

    Other than Halo-related things, I don’t think I’ll have quite enough money or time on hand to pre-order or at least buy and play all of this year’s great games. :(

  • Warrengonline

    MvC2, wow. Yes, I am truly surprised. Sonic & Knuckles still running strong after all these years. Staying power man. A Sonic CD Special would be a nice sequel tribute.

  • BkLiveWire

    Halo 3 won’t be number one for long. 11-10-09.

  • Rick Dias PK

    Major, that’s because a decent game was offered at a very nice price. A lot of us have been saying this for weeks… months, even. I love the idea behind the Deal of the Week, but have on many occasions found the deal was just a platform for EA to exploit us with soon-to-be-obsolete content on a discount (gee, thanks) or for things we have almost no use for such as Themes (or basically “wallpaper for your console”).
    Conversely, this was a good game at a good price, it fit the concept of a Deal very well. The only reason I didn’t buy it was that I already had the game, otherwise the Deal would have made me buy Puzzle Quest. This is the sort of offer I appreciate even if I already have the item though, so please keep doing this sort of thing and thank you for your time.

  • MACPH1ST0

    Sad to see that Splosion Man dropped out of the Arcade Top 10. :( Maybe once they release this multiplayer patch and the avatar awards patch FINALLY gets released, more people will hopefully come back to it! http://bit.ly/rKI0v

  • CryptoElite

    Trials #1 again, amazing. That’s one hardcore challenging game. Sometimes I’m amazed by the 360 community.

  • STEVE39

    As others have said, when it’s a good deal it will sell. Puzzlequest was 800 dropped to 400. Correct price – half price deal = many sales. Lode Runner is really a 800 game so all you are doing this week correcting the price. So I doubt you’ll see such a take up this time.

  • MACPH1ST0

    @ STEVE39: If you had played the full game and saw how much content is in it, you’d know it’s worth 1200 (more so than Trials HD) and that 800 is a pretty good deal on it. I’d like to hope that enough people looked up the game and figured that out and bought it while it was on sale, but sadly that probably wasn’t the case. I guess we’ll see next week.

  • AriesDog

    My regular request for a Games for Windows LIVE Top 10 list.

  • SpaceNinjaDino

    Yes, $5 made Puzzle Quest an awesome deal. If more games had attractive price points, they will also get mega sales. Look at Z0MB1ES, it’s a great game for $1. I wish I knew the sales volume of Indie Games so that it could motivate me to finish my projects.

  • ZANDEN

    I think that Indie Games are a great feature for Xbox users and could make someone like myself interested in making a game. You don’t have to have a large team and lots of money. Just a good idea and a well made game would get me.

  • Jax Demon

    Gears of war 2 still 4th lol, Nice one MS seeing as you would not want one of your top titles dropping out the top ten would you. Would love to see the real stats for Gears 2.

  • The 7raveler

    @ Jax Demon

    So, based upon that statement, Shadowrun should be in the top 10.
    Major, and Microsoft for that matter, have no reason to fabricate these results.

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