Bastion passes 500,000 sales
Bastion has crossed the 500,000 mark in sales, and the team at Supergiant Games credits recent bumps from Steam and Xbox Live Arcade sales for pushing the game over.
Supergiant Games' critically acclaimed downloadable game Bastion has cleared the 500,000 mark in sales, the developer has announced. The company credits the recent holiday sales on Steam and Xbox Live Arcade for pushing it over the milestone.
"We're happy to have this many people playing and to be in a position to make more games on our own terms," said Supergiant's Greg Kasavin in the announcement. "When we set out to make Bastion, a sales number like that seemed astronomical to us, so it feels great to have hit that mark. It goes to show that a lot of folks out there like what we’re doing and want us to keep going, which is great, because we intend to stick together as a team and do just that."
The team also touted awards from over 60 publications, so the small indie start-up must be feeling pretty good about itself. The game recently launched on Chrome as well, and released the Stranger's Dream DLC for free on PC, and a buck on Xbox 360.
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Bastion has crossed the 500,000 mark in sales, and the team at Supergiant Games credits recent bumps from Steam and Xbox Live Arcade sales for pushing the game over.-
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I really enjoyed this title. So much personality, very well done.
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I'd be really curious to see what their total rev share is.
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Really depends on the dev costs. I've seen dev teams of 4 people and teams of 40.
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you think XBLA/Steam are taking 50% of game revenue?
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Depends on the arrangements and if Microsoft is the publisher.
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I'm going to guess they've actually banked closer to 1.25mill, since what you posted is definitely wcs.
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Indie devs have stated steam is far more favourable for them compared with other platforms.
They wouldn't have gone with WB unless the terms were favourable since i assume they only needed a publisher to get on xbox live. Since sales (one would guess) far exceeded expectations I think it unlikely WB would've taken a large chunk of proceeds thus far.
Good on them :). Plus the soundtrack edition would've been a bonus.-
Warner also didn't fund the production of the game, which is important. They didn't come on board until fairly late in development. It's kind of like the difference between bringing a completed movie to a studio for distribution and having them put up for the money for it; your share is going to be a lot more if you go the former route.
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The publisher gets their cut out of the devs cut, so it does lower their royalties appreciably. You don't need a publisher to get on Steam, but it helps. You also don't need a publisher to get on Live, but Microsoft does very little publishing these days and self-publishing is expensive.
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I beat the game tonight after about 15 hours and I loved every second of it. I'm glad these guys are getting the recognition they deserve. It's also truly awesome to see Greg Kasavin who always really "got" games and see him cross over to development so successfully.
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If an indy title hits 100k it's doing well, for one that's been hyped so much 500k isn't bad. Indy titles tend to have longer legs too so we'll see how this turns out in the long run.
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