Wed, Jul 14, 2010 | 15:54 BST

PlayStation minis range passes 1 million downloads

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Sony has announced its minis range has passed the 1 million download milestone across PAL, Asia and US territories.

Launched in October 2009 for PSP and PS3, the bite-sized games total more than 85 from over 50 developers, and more are expected to be released in the coming months.

“We’re always looking for exciting and unique content to offer our audiences and minis offer exactly that,” said SCEE VP of publisher and developer relations, Zeno Colaco.

“We’re proud to have achieved over a million downloads in less than a year and with new developers coming on board every day, bringing with them incredibly fun and creative games, we look forward to establishing minis as a fans favourite amongst the PlayStation community.”

Here are the top ten minis sold as of July 7, excluding single format minis:

Age of Zombies
Monopoly
Fieldrunners
Zombie Tycoon
Bloons
Spot The Differences!
Pinball Fantasies
Mahjongg Artifacts: Chapter 2
Yetisports Pengu Throw
Breakquest

Today’s PSN update included minis: Piyotama, Car Jack Streets, Archibald’s Adventures, Pallurikio, and Star Hammer Tactics.

10 comments

cookiejar
14/07/10, 4:03 pm

I have to admit, I thought the mini campaign would bomb. But all credit to Sony, its done well. Some good little time wasters in there.

cookiejar
14/07/10, 4:04 pm

Double post. Stop asking for an admin password

Blerk
14/07/10, 4:11 pm

I’m surprised they sold any at all, given the level of media coverage they get and the fact that you can’t download demos. I’m half curious about a few of them, but there’s no way I’d buy them ‘blind’.

Retroid
14/07/10, 4:13 pm

Plus, most of them are shit. Or far, far too short.

Robo_1
14/07/10, 4:13 pm

A million sales isn’t bad at all, given how relatively few games there are on the service.

Expect these sorts of bit size apps to be a huge focus for PSP2.

Blerk
14/07/10, 4:17 pm

Which are the ‘best’ minis, then? So I can look them up on YouTube.

cookiejar
14/07/10, 4:23 pm

@6 Basically the top sellers you see there.

Age of Zombies and Fieldrunners are a couple of my favs.

I always buy these (or get them free with PS+) and play them on the PSP. I rarely use them on the PS3.

Also looking at todays update with Car Jack Streets, it looks a lot like the original top down GTA games. Might look into that.