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SoMI has built a head of Steam 21 Jul, 2009 / Comments: 12

By Gabez


Jaap has told me that Joqstiq says that Big Download has reported that The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition is number one on the latest Steam revenue charts.

This bodes well for Monkey Island 2: Special Edition!

Source: Jaap

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12 Comments

  • TheJoe on 25 Jul, 2009, 11:29…
    Do not want MI2SE
  • Logic on 22 Jul, 2009, 04:43…
    Proof (as if any of us needed it personally) that people still care about point&click adventure games.

    I'd love to see a good development company work with a good animation studio (gibli? 4C?) to produce a high-res, lusciously hand-drawn -> 2D <- animated point and click adventure game with a deep story and great musical score. Is that a pipedream?
  • The Tingler on 22 Jul, 2009, 12:13…
    Here you go:

    http://kotaku.com/5268906/studio-ghibli-rpg-looking-good
  • The Tingler on 22 Jul, 2009, 12:14…
    Okay, it's an RPG rather than an adventure, but those genres are incredibly close. It's even the ACTUAL Studio Ghibli doing it!
  • Logic on 22 Jul, 2009, 17:00…
    Wow, that's an excellent recommendation. Thanks!
  • hierohero on 21 Jul, 2009, 23:24…
    I think the top sellers on steam are at least 10, 000 add that to the 40, 000 on XBLA which is a very strong start over there..and I have my fingers and toes crossed for a Sam & Max: Hit the Road special edition
  • novamonkey on 21 Jul, 2009, 22:36…
    current players
    661
    Peak for today
    1,049

    http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

    not sure on actual sales though
  • jp-30 on 21 Jul, 2009, 22:25…
    "After debuting on Xbox 360 last week, the game has managed to brighten the lives of at least 38,693 individuals (based on game leaderboard data at the time of this post)."

    Wow. Given there is no manufacturing cost, no point of sale cost, no cost for sales reps etc, plus I would assume a fairly modest percentage of revenue going to XBLA (and Steam of course), LucasArts must surely be very happy with the return on their investment.

    Which does indeed bode well for future SE's.
  • koosjebig on 21 Jul, 2009, 22:24…
    Interesting chain of messengers... ;)
    How can you check the xbox leaderboard data? 38,693 is a lot though.
    Any way to guesstimates how many ppl bought it on steam?
  • SurplusGamer on 22 Jul, 2009, 08:28…
    If you go to the SMI:SE leaderboard in game it tells you how many are registered on the leaderboards.
  • The Tingler on 21 Jul, 2009, 22:30…
    It's very easy to... I just don't know how! :P
  • itchythesamurai on 21 Jul, 2009, 22:21…
    Yay, great news!