A simple game by anyone's estimation, the original Temple Run nonetheless proved to be a hit with gamers. The 'endless runner' scored big netting a staggering 170 million downloads for iOS and Android. And as gaudy as those numbers are, its sequel is poised to blow the original away.
The recently released Temple Run 2 has, in its first week of release, been downloaded just over 50 million times. Let that sink in for a second. Fifty. Million.
“Temple Run has evolved into something so much bigger than us,” says Keith Shepherd, co-founder of (developer) Imangi. “The game has performed beyond our wildest dreams, and we are thrilled that gamers and fans have embraced Temple Run 2 in such a short period of time.”
Now I'm sure that being a free download didn't exactly hurt Temple Run 2's download numbers, but still... 50 million downloads. Just how impressive is that? Extremely, considering that the game had zero pre-release hype and basically wasn't even announced until it hit download services. By comparison, Rovio's Angry Birds (which has become a veritable phenomenon) took just over a month to reach the same figure. Now that's big.Temple Run 2 now sits in the #1 spot on Google Play, the Amazon Marketplace, and iOS (Free) App Store- so you might as well go grab it and add yourself to the stat pile. Hmm... how soon do you think we'll see a Star Wars crossover?
1 comments:
Wowsers that is impressive.
Think about it, with that many downloads even if only one per cent of people pay for in app premium stuff, then the developers have made hundreds of thousands of dollars. In just a few days.
The new Angry Birds, clearly.
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