The fine folks over at VGChartz, who give us the fanboy fueled weekly console hardware and software sales estimates, have started providing estimates of the weekly XBLA sales numbers. This is great as their site tends to be very good at guessing sales numbers in their other charts and gives us a bit more data than Major Nelson's weekly and yearly XBLA sales ranks. Included in their numbers are the weeks sales and total sales, which they acquire by polling MyGamerCard.net for gamers who have recently latched onto the title and were able to get achievements for the game. After this number is established, they expand the small, hardcore MyGamerCard userbase into the entirety of the Xbox 360 install base. Obviously, this method is prone to considerable error but I'm sure as time goes on, and they tune their system to Major Nelson's rankings this will get as accurate as we could come without getting the real numbers. Make sure you take a look at the sales charts and start spreading the word that more people should be buying RoboBlitz and Eets: Chowdown. [Via The Xbox Domain]

Via MajorNelson

Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions)
1 Prince of Persia
2 Pac-Man C.E.
3 Band of Bugs
4 UNO
5 TMNT 1989 Arcade
6 Worms
7 3D Ultra Minigolf Adventures
8 Double Dragon
9 Castlevania: SOTN
10 Texas Hold 'em

Surprising, for me at least. TMNT 1989 Arcade, a game that didn't manage to make the Top 10 last week, got to #5 this week. Band of Bugs, which for me personally even after LunarDuality's coverage, is a 'hidden gem' - Starts off at #3. Also, given it's extremely low replay value, Prince of Persia still manages to come out on top at #1.

What are your thoughts? Any surprises?

Another week, another set of top 10 lists from Major Nelson.  Hopefully, this list will spur some interesting discussion of what people are buying and/or playing this week.  Therefore, below you will find the top 10 XBLA games that were purchased this week:

[quote]Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions)
1 Double Dragon
2 Catan
3 Pinball FX
4 3D Ultra™ Minigolf Adventures
5 TMNT 1989 Arcade
6 Soltrio Solitaire
7 Worms
8 UNO
9 Castlevania: SOTN
10 Centipede & Millipede[/quote]

Aegis Wing does not appear most likely on this list because it was not "purchased" by anyone.  And it amazes me that UNO is still in the top ten.  It's the little game that could.

Also of note, Double Dragon cracked the top 10 Live Titles played this week -- at #7.  

Personally, I am still bloated with XBLA games since I bought Catan last week (1000 victory points in ranked matches, WTF?), picked up Aegis Wing, and am still working on games as far back as Assault Heroes.

So, what is everyone playing or spending their hard earned MS Points on this week? 

[via Major Nelson]

As always the previous weeks sales rank are also shown.

Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions) 1 3D Ultra Minigolf Adventures ( - ) 2 Boom Boom Rocket ( 1 ) 3 TMNT 1989 Arcade ( 2 ) 4 Castlevania: SOTN ( 4 ) 5 UNO ( 6 ) 6 Worms ( 5 ) 7 Luxor 2 ( 3 ) 8 Gyruss ( - ) 9 Alien Hominid HD ( 7 ) 10 Street Fighter II' Hyper Fighting ( 9 )

Boom Boom Rocket also made it into the Xbox 360 Activity stats.

Xbox 360 Top Live Titles (UU’s) 6 Boom Boom Rocket (-)

As always the previous ranks are also shown.

Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions) 1 Boom Boom Rocket ( - ) 2 TMNT 1989 Arcade ( 2 ) 3 Luxor 2 ( 5 ) 4 Castlevania: SOTN ( 1 ) 5 Worms ( 4 ) 6 UNO ( 6 ) 7 Alien Hominid HD ( 7 ) 8 Jetpac Refuelled ( 3 ) 9 Street Fighter II' Hyper Fighting ( - ) 10 Texas Hold 'em ( 9 )

No games made the top activity list this week.

As always the previous ranks are also shown.

Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions) 1 Worms ( 1 ) 2 TMNT 1989 Arcade ( - ) 3 Alien Hominid HD ( 2 ) 4 UNO ( 3 ) 5 Paperboy ( 4 ) 6 Street Fighter II' Hyper Fighting ( 6 ) 7 LUMINES LIVE! ( 5 ) 8 DOOM ( - ) 9 Contra ( 10 ) 10 Heavy Weapon ( - )

Sadly, Alien Hominid HD was knocked off of the overall Xbox 360 activity list this week, but Worms managed to become more popular.

Xbox 360 Top Live Titles (UU’s) 4 Worms ( 7 ) 7 TMNT 1989 Arcade ( - )

As always the previous ranks are also shown.

Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions) 1 Worms ( - ) 2 Alien Hominid HD ( 1 ) 3 UNO ( 3 ) 4 Paperboy ( 2 ) 5 LUMINES LIVE! ( - ) 6 Street Fighter II' Hyper Fighting ( 5 ) 7 Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 ( 6 ) 8 Texas Hold 'em ( 4 ) 9 Geometry Wars Evolved ( 9 ) 10 Contra ( 7 )

A few games also made it into the top Xbox 360 games this week.

Xbox 360 Top Live Titles (UU’s) 5 Alien Hominid HD 7 Worms

It's interesting to see this considering Alien Hominid came out last week and wasn't on the top list last week.

As always the previous ranks are also shown.

Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions) 1 Alien Hominid HD ( - ) 2 Paperboy ( 1 ) 3 UNO ( 2 ) 4 Texas Hold 'em ( 8 ) 5 Street Fighter II' Hyper Fighting ( 6 ) 6 Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 ( 3 ) 7 Contra ( 7 ) 8 Heavy Weapon ( 5 ) 9 Geometry Wars Evolved ( 9 ) 10 DOOM ( - )

As always the previous ranks are also shown.

Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions) 1 Paperboy ( 1 ) 2 UNO ( 3 ) 3 Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 ( 5 ) 4 Root Beer Tapper ( 2 ) 5 Heavy Weapon ( 4 ) 6 Street Fighter II' Hyper Fighting ( 9 ) 7 Contra ( 6 ) 8 Texas Hold 'em ( 7 ) 9 Geometry Wars Evolved ( 8 ) 10 MS.PAC-MAN ( - )

Listed in parenthesis is the rank of that title from last week.

Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions) 1 Paperboy ( - ) 2 Root Beer Tapper ( 1 ) 3 UNO ( 2 ) 4 Heavy Weapon ( 3 ) 5 Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 ( 4 ) 6 Contra ( 7 ) 7 Texas Hold 'em ( 8 ) 8 Geometry Wars Evolved ( 10 ) 9 Street Fighter II' Hyper Fighting ( 6 ) 10 Small Arms ( - )