Bejeweled Puts Up Astounding Stats
- Scribbled on August 19th, 2008 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Casual Gaming, Industry News, Interviews, Puzzle
Popcap’s Bejeweled franchise has been the backbone of the casual gaming company, and basically the match-3 puzzle game. GameDaily is reporting some of the raw stats:
The Bejeweled franchise has sold over 25 million units across all platforms. The definition of “all platforms” would consist of online, mobile, retail, “in-flight” and other channels. PopCap also noted that the Bejeweled series has been downloaded 350 million times from the interwebs and makes up one third of the company’s billion-plus downloads. The game has earned over $300 million in revenue through sales and “tens of millions” in online advertising.
Co-founder of Popcap Jason Kapalka describes how he got the last laugh when some online distributors refused Bejeweled, claiming, “It’s not even a game.” Now every company and their brother are trying to imitate Popcap’s casual line of games, from Real to Virgin to Electronic Arts.
(Thanks, Joystiq.)
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