Exclusive: Top 10 PSN titles for August - News

by VGChartz Staff , posted on 24 September 2010 / 5,317 Views

After a strong month of PSN sales Scott Pilgrim vs. The World comes in at number one, which is something it's movie counterpart can't say sadly. All listing are by revenue rather than unit sales because of differing prices.

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Ubisoft) - 117,000 units ($9.99)
Castle Crashers (The Behemoth) - 27,000 ($14.99)
Shank (The Behemoth) 23,000 ($14.99)
ZEN Pinball (Zen Studios) 27,000 ($9.99)
Joe Danger (Hello Games) 14,000 ($14.99)
DeathSpank (Hothead Games) 13,000 ($14.99)
Fat Princess (Titan Studios) 12,000 ($7.49)
Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (Capcom) 5,400 ($14.99)
Call of Duty Classic (Infinity Ward) 5,100 ($14.99)
Flower (ThatGameCompany) 6,800 ($9.99)

Castle Crashers debuted at the very end of August so while it comes in second it should also have a strong September as well. As for games outside of the top five it's mostly the usual suspects that have had steady sales for nearly a year or more, exception being DeathSpank.

Note: PSN titles refer only to Playstation 3 titles that are only downloadable through the Playstation Network and excludes PSOne Classics, PSP titles, and full retail PS3 titles that are also downloadable.

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18 Comments

binary solo (on 25 September 2010)

Interesting. I downloaded the Scott Pilgrim demo and didn't like it one bit. Enjoyed Joe Danger demo a lot, so will be picking that up soon.

Fat Princess and Flower must be racking up the LTD numbers. Those games have been out for a good long while and to be selling like that monthly still is fantastic.

Severance (on 24 September 2010)

@barozi , there was a source listing a bunch of games this year and the highest one is slightly over 100K

Salnax (on 24 September 2010)

CC did well for a two year old port of a game released in one territory.

kitler53 (on 24 September 2010)

i divided the revenue but the unit price and got fractions.

the numbers are a lie!!

Barozi (on 24 September 2010)

@Severance

who said that ?
Complete nonsense. I'm sure there were PSN games that did 300-400k in a year (BF1943 for example)

Severance (on 24 September 2010)

So this actually debunked that rumor about PSN games selling 100K top yearly....
i was actually very surprised by that rumor.

MaxwellGT2000 (on 24 September 2010)

@Hunter

Forgetting our Wii VC and Wii Ware sales there :-P all three services do very well for themselves.

hunter_alien (on 24 September 2010)

WOW, DD sales are pretty good, and it became a pretty big market for consoles. And this is the PS3, and the 360 has even more impressive sales ;-)

edjevink (on 24 September 2010)

Kind of confusing article to be honest. It clearly says "All listing are by revenue rather than unit sales because of differing prices", but the first game mentioned says "117.000 units"?? It's all units right, not revenue? Or am i missing something?

Arcturus (on 24 September 2010)

Castle Crashers was also released at the end of August.

Tuganuno (on 24 September 2010)

@De85, Castle Crashers was only released on the NA market so far. And we all know NA =360, so I'd say this title has a chance of topping the table on the month it gets released on EU.