Xbox Live Arcade Sales 'Almost Tripled' After New Xbox Experience Launch

Sales of downloadable Xbox Live Arcade games "almost tripled" in the week after the November 19th launch of the Xbox 360's new interface, Microsoft...

Chris Faylor

December 11, 2008 11:15 AM

Sales of downloadable Xbox Live Arcade games "almost tripled" in the week after the November 19th launch of the Xbox 360's new interface, Microsoft has announced.

In particular, Cabonated Games' UNO saw a 650% sales jump in just one day, a feat attributed to the fact that it was updated with support for the new customizable player avatars. NinjaBee's A Kingdom for Keflings, an avatar-utilizing game launched on November 19, "registered the second-best first week of performance ever."

In addition, Xbox Live members have added an average of 33% more friends since the New Xbox Experience hit, Xbox Live programming director Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb observed on his blog, though no explanation or hard numbers were given.

Chris Faylor

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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Begawkiness

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December 11, 2008 11:33 AM

I spend significantly less time on the dash since this new update, because I don't enjoy using it at all. I guess I'm in the minority though.
- baron calamity
  
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  December 11, 2008 11:37 AM
  
  I don't like it either. I've significantly cut down the time I've played the xbox. Even the kids hate using it now to access their favorite arcade game. My 5 year old daughter finds it frustrating.
  - Begawkiness
    
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    December 11, 2008 11:53 AM
    
    Well I still play just as much but I immediately go into the game now rather than hunt around in the marketplace or something.
    - LemonJoose
      
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      December 11, 2008 12:20 PM
      
      This is my experience as well.
- dantastic
  
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  December 11, 2008 11:44 AM
  
  guess youre in the minority
- melkore
  
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  December 11, 2008 11:51 AM
  
  I use my 360 less because of it. I just don't like the look and feel of it. It seems like I have to dig deeper than before for some things.
- NuMMnUtZ
  
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  December 11, 2008 12:27 PM
  
  I had a hard time finding stuff with the new interface but after messing with it for a while the slick style grew on me and gradually I found easy ways to get to content I wanted. There is definitely a learning curve which really shouldn't be the case for something that was supposed to be more user friendly. Being able to have a blade or whatever that is completely customizable with links to stuff you want to check regularly would be a huge plus and I have to hope the function is coming. I have a harder time passing by things that I have marginal interest in though now. I even bought that damn force unleashed mission pack although I don't know that I'll ever get around to playing it.
  - two50six
    
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    December 11, 2008 12:50 PM
    
    yep, a lot of people just arent giving it enough time to acclimate. It's actually easier to find games and info now
- FormerHPB
  
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  December 11, 2008 12:45 PM
  
  I'm not a fan either. The one thing I do like is the new friends list so you can see who is playing together in a game. but the new friends list is still SLOW to go through a list of 100 friends.
  - Fred Garvin
    
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    December 11, 2008 12:51 PM
    
    You can just use the mini-dashboard.
- Fred Garvin
  
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  December 11, 2008 12:50 PM
  
  I like the speed and once I got used to it I started to like it.
- bigdady92
  
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  December 12, 2008 6:48 AM
  
  I only use it to play movies via netflix and stream it. Game play =insert disc and goto town. The rest is crap.