Sell 25 million copies of your game? (bejeweled)

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20864

25 million copies of Bejewelled have been sold (and many more downloaded). 25 mill!

dang

Ah... I can only wish :)

And since their price is 19.99, that's 500 million dollars - half a billion!

I play bejeweled in Warcraft. It's very clever to add your own game into someone else's as a plugin. Sort of like how they did a Half life2 version of peggle and gave that away to people who bought Episode 2.

Not really. While I'm not denying that 25 million copies is impressive, Nowhere near that number will have been sold at $19.99.

For instance, there are various mobile versions which are counted as part of the Bejeweled franchise, that go for a few dollars a time. They also might be including deals to put demo versions on mobile handsets as part of their 'units sold' figure to dress it up a bit.

Should never take sales figures at face value.

i got the 30 second demo of bejeweled for my viewity handset and that cost me a fiver (uk) to get it up and running
but if it was sold for a dollar a shot thats still alot of dollars :)

This is old news, but nevertheless impressive!

> This is old news, but nevertheless impressive!

The article was posted yesterday.

Yes, but they've been bragging about it for years!

Even if they old sold each copy for a dollar that's still 25 million and the point is how impressive that number is, not so much the dollars. Can anyone here think of creating a game that sells more than even a few thousand copies?

Sure, lots of top casual games sell over 100,000 copies easily (I've heard sales figures from the horse's mouth) and even my last game sold way more than a "few" thousand copies. Hope the next one does too...

I noticed recently that Bejewelled (and others) is also available at retail in GAME.

Yeah they're in a few shops now. Focus Media, iirc.

You can even play Bejewelled on the in flight entertainment system of NWA! But it's with a horrible controller.

I've seen it in department stores for $9.99

Just wondering... how do i get my games published. I have a few on my HD that are worth more than freeware and would sell for about 5-20 dollars. I just have to fix them up a bit.

@Nate: Here's a blog entry I wrote a while back + there's more info on my site: http://greyaliengames.com/blog/ive-finished-my-game-now-what/

thanks grey


hmm... I was reading over some other stuff and I noticed that the blitz people who run this website said that if you send them your game, they will get it published... is this true? Is it a good idea?

BRL really should have removed that information years ago...

Did it myself a dozen times or more. But, unless BRL have a new publishing partner that nobody knows about, I'd say the chances of that happening now are slim to zero. Ties to the old one have been severed for some years now.