With a good bit of holiday sales, Rail Racer is somewhere around the 220 unit mark right now, not spectacular, but not terrible either. The biggest marketing push for RR has come from word of mouth, as people realize there is a great deal of replay value in RR with the online tournaments and ability to create your own tracks to share with friends. Also, we have some excellent volunteers arranging tournaments, handling new tracks and keeping the RR community flowing. I think in the future it is going to be very important to have that online social aspect of gaming to have a successful long term shelf life, as most games just don't have a lot of replay value for the most part. I don't think anyone is ever going to make a living selling accesible games, there just aren't enough blind gamers out there, but for a hobby that brings in a little extra cash, it isn't bad. Happy and safe holidays, Che
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 4:25 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Loquendo voices was Quick question > Hi Kuvvosh, > If I exclude the pre-ordered customers only 25 have purchased > Montezuma's Return 1.0 directly from USA Games. Though it is still early > and it is hard to say how many new customers I will get in the future. > As for Rail Racer I don't know Che's current status, but I do recall him > saying on list that only about 150 customers had purchased the game at > the time he wrote that on list. He hoped to sell at least 200 units, and > at the time he was still short of that mark. > It is definitly a bit depressing seeing how much work goes into one of > these audio games, and the sales numbers just aren't there for it to be > very successful as a secondary income. > > Kuvvosh wrote: >> Woa, are you saying that 25 people only ordered the USA game, and 150 >> people >> ofr RR? Geeze I thought there was a lot more people out there that >> played >> games. How sad. >> >> Kuvvosh >> > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
