'Splosion Man blasts to top of XBLA chart

By Fred Dutton Published 1 December, 2010

Price cuts work!

'Splosion Man has rocketed to the top of the Xbox Live Arcade chart 18 nearly 18 months after it was first released.

Twisted Pixel's cracking platformer originally went in at two when it was first released way back in July 2009, so it's taken its time climbing to the number one spot.

It had its price cut from 800 Points to just 160 Points in last week's Xbox Live Black Friday sale, which we suppose might have had something to do with the surge.

This week's top 20, posted on Major Nelson's blog, saw strong showings for Turtles in Time Reshelled, Trials HD and Portal: Still Alive, all of which were also part of last week's sale.

Here's the full rundown:

  1. 'Splosion Man
  2. Turtles in Time Re-Shelled
  3. Hasbro Family Game Night
  4. Trials HD
  5. Portal: Still Alive
  6. Crazy Taxi
  7. Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge
  8. Pac-Man Championship Edition DX
  9. Greed Corp
  10. Pinball FX 2
  11. Madden NFL Arcade
  12. Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter
  13. The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
  14. Zombie Apocalypse
  15. Mega Man 10
  16. Magic: The Gathering
  17. Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Decade Duels
  18. Dead Rising 2: Case Zero
  19. Puzzle Quest 2
  20. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

For those of you keeping track of these things, Major Nelson also updated us on who was king of the Xbox Live Indie Games castle. Last week's top 10 panned out as follows:

  1. Nuclear Wasteland
  2. Get Rich or Die Gaming
  3. I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1
  4. The Impossible Game
  5. Sketchy Tower Defense
  6. Avatar Racedrome
  7. Miner Dig Deep
  8. Avatar Drop
  9. Baby Maker Extreme
  10. A Game you can't BEAT!!
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Comments (13) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • INSOMANiAC #1 1 year ago

    I bought it and I didnt think it was that great to be honest

  • weejok #2 1 year ago

    Note to Microsoft - "Reduce prices and sell more stuff" Thanks

  • metallicorphan #3 1 year ago

    well i bought 'Splosion Man,Trials and Turtles re-shelled...Trials is the best of the 3,'Splosion man can get frustrating,and i have only just started it,LOL...Turtles was pretty crap and didn't have the theme music!!!,guess i will have to stick to the other Turtles arcade game for that

  • metalangel #4 1 year ago

    How many times will this happen before they realise the prices are too high?

  • ryanbreck #5 1 year ago

    They are making progress with the Deals of the Week and various offers and points rebates. More needs to be done though. Prices of older xbla games need to drop, in the same way the prices of retail games drop. Things like dlc for the first Puzzle Quest being 700 points can't be in any one's favour. If Steam can handle such things, why not Xbox Live?

    And 160 points for Splosion Man is completely irresistible.

  • carrotcake #6 1 year ago

    I'm a new splosion man owner and I don't know why I ever missed this one. Good game.

  • tinners #7 1 year ago

    Splosionman multiplayer is excellent fun and very challenging glad I got it thanks to the drop.

  • Douche #8 1 year ago

    Got it aswell and it's rather good. Got Portal Still Alive on the cheap as well. Good times.

  • Xardan #9 1 year ago

    Greed Corp deserved more sales.

  • metalmike25 #10 1 year ago

    Love splosion man. Played it non stop when it was released. Great game

  • Sabreman64 #11 1 year ago

    The only thing wrong with Splosion Man is the lack of new levels. I finished the game months ago and I've been hoping for some new levels ever since. The couple of new levels included with Comic Jumper were good, but come on, Twisted Pixel, how about producing a couple of dozen new levels for the game, eh?

  • Max_Powers #12 1 year ago

    "The prices should always be this low!!", "79 cents on the App Store is to expensive", "Make everything free!"

    If you have even a shred of common sense you realize with these prices professional developers are not making ANY money. At all. Even if you are at the top of the charts. Why do you think Activision is not really interested yet in the digital download space?

    This ridiculous price perception with consumers and unwillingniss to pay a reasonable amount for content will cause a HUGE fall-out in the games market in the years to come. You just watch.
    Edited by Max_Powers at 02/12/10 @ 10:06

  • dancingrob #13 1 year ago

    'If you have even a shred of common sense you realize with these prices professional developers are not making ANY money. At all.'

    not quite true. The game has been on sale, and selling well for 18 months, and we've only now seen a temporary price drop.

    For boxed games, you can pick up just about any 18 month old game for £10 - £20, so around 1/3 of the original price, yet XBLA games retain their top price point throughout their whole sales life.

    What MS should be doing is more in the way of permanent reductions on old games, where games that were released in 2007-8 are now pretty much all reduced to 400 - 600 MSP, and the 1200 point games from last year now down at 800MSP.