HOLY SHIT, no wonder the servers got over loaded. Braid was considered a success after selling 30,000 in its first week, Geometry wars2 did around 60k.............well, Castle Crashers sells over 110,000 in 3 days (looking at the leaderboard)

in an interview with Tom fulp and Dan paladin (the dudes who made the game) from Joystiq,
" Joystiq : Now that Castle Crashers has been out for a few days now, have you heard about the game's sales?

Tom: We don't have official numbers, hopefully we'll be getting them soon. As far as we know we are record breaking, because we aren't sure of anyone else selling as many copies. But we have to wait for official confirmation from Microsoft.
Dan: Though, we do have leaderboard totals to go off of and the last time we check, it was at about 103,000 players."

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/08/31/pax-2008-the-behemoth-talks-castle-crashers-pricing-patches-an/

Cool. The game is a lot of fun. They should be working on a patch though, not taking interviews! lol.

Wow, and I didnt even buy that one!

"Cool. The game is a lot of fun. They should be working on a patch though, not taking interviews! lol."

Arcade game of the year. Brings more to the table than Most retail games.

I believe this, CC is just too damn good, as a matter of fact i think i'll go play it right now

Wow, and I'm sure that has nothing to do with the fact that the game can be played in local multiplayer with up to three other people who have silver accounts and never paid for the game, right?

We'll get sales info when we get sales info.  Leaderboards mean nothing.

"Player1 said:

"Cool. The game is a lot of fun. They should be working on a patch though, not taking interviews! lol."

they already said, its not the game. it was a server side problem. MS dedicates a certain amount of bandwidth to games....they had no idea this game would suddenly start breaking records. same thing happened with HALO3 the first day. and they said the fix is coming very soon.

anyways, Can we say the First Million Selling Arcade game???"

This is the only summer of arcade one I haven't bought yet (besides Galaga).  I will definitely now.

They said a patch is coming.  I'll wait for official numbers though.  I'm expecting over 90,000.

Good for them, they definitely deserve it.

You can't use the leaderboards to determine sales.  Many people have more than one profile on their 360.

I hope they roll out the patch soon, because I'm not going online in-game until it's fixed.

Bionic Commando did 170,000, but that's over two platforms. So we should wait for solid 360 stats on that one before we do this.

"I hope they roll out the patch soon, because I'm not going online in-game until it's fixed."

Dude listen
Renegade_v2 said:

"Player1 said:

"Cool. The game is a lot of fun. They should be working on a patch though, not taking interviews! lol."

they already said, its not the game. it was a server side problem. MS dedicates a certain amount of bandwidth to games....they had no idea this game would suddenly start breaking records. same thing happened with HALO3 the first day. and they said the fix is coming very soon.

anyways, Can we say the First Million Selling Arcade game???"

Hmm, I don't have any friends playing it... I bought it though, and it's pretty cool, but I need to get some co-op on.

Didn't BC:Rearmed sell 130,000 in its first week?

EDIT: Ignore that, I just remembered that BC:Rearmed was for multiple platforms.

Good news, I'm glad the game is doing really well, its super fun and deserves it, this and BC are the best value of games I've got in a long long time.

BC:Rearmed did 130,000 in its' first week across 360, PS3 and PC (not 170,000 as previously mentioned).  I haven't checked the Leaderboards of that (it actually only accounts for those who've beaten it and challenges), but what I can say is that Castle Crashers, when I checked a couple of hours ago was approaching the 170,000 person on the Leaderboard mark.

Lame. Geo wars 2 is far better.

"Lame. Geo wars 2 is far better."

I just beat Castle Crashers today. What a game! I'm really happy that it's selling so well.

"Subway said:

"Lame. Geo wars 2 is far better."

How can you even start to compare the two? They're completely different. Apart from them both being games on Xbox live arcade I can't think of a single similarity!!!"

Amazing its a fantastic game!

"Cool. The game is a lot of fun. They should be working on a patch though, not taking interviews! lol."