Trials HD By RedLynx Reaches 500 000 Unit Sales Mark
The Finnish multi platform game developer RedLynx has announced that it has sold over half a million copies of its popular Trials HD game on the XBOX360 (via Kauppalehti). The game is worth about 1200 Microsoft points which accounts to about 15 USD totalling in 7,5 million USD in sales.
The company itself is also in very good shape financially. RedLynx is already showing some of the success in its finances as 2009 revenues are in the range of three million with a million in profit. Last time RedLynx was profitable was in 2004 with a 356 thousand euro profit. High fluctuations are natural in the gaming business as it takes a long time to build a game and very few are capable of pumping out new games on continuous basis to keep the company constantly profitable.
Trials HD itself is a very addictive game. It's a platform game where you control a trial motorcycle from a side perspective, trying to advance over, through and in whichever way you are required to pass the obstacles in question. The game is based on an earlier version that was built already after the change of the millenium, so the idea behind it is has been well tested.
Something new in the pipeline
RedLynx has also something new and interesting in the pipeline for mobile devices. They are creating an Ovi Maps Racing game for Nokia phones. The game itself has a revolutionary new feature to it: users are able to use the GPS-device on their phones to locate themselves on the map and then race in the game in the exact same position. The game thus replicates the real world street maps and is initially available in Europe.
It's these simple sorts of new innovations that gain respect for companies like RedLynx. And there's a lot to trust, as they were the royal supplier of games to the Nokia N-Gage phones some years ago.
Congratulations to RedLynx team! Great to see old mates doing well with this product.
I had no idea that Trials HD was created by a Finnish company! All the better :) I'm totally addicted to the game, even bought the expansion pack.
Great job RedLynx!
//sami
[...] Back in January we wrote about the Finnish multi platform gaming house RedLynx surpassing the half a million sales mark for their TrialsHD game on the XBOX 360. Last week they announced that altogether they have sold over 1.5 million games in 2009. Last year, they published four games Trials HD (Xbox LIVE Arcade), Monster Trucks Nitro (PC), Monster Truck Nitro (iPhone) and DrawRace (iPhone). RedLynx has also made available many of their games online as browser based versions. These games are available on over 5000 websites and altoghether have they have been played over 100 million times, according to Tero Virtala, CEO of RedLynx. Figures like these confirm that RedLynx has hit it big time and is well on its way to becoming one of the respected gaming houses out there, if it already isn’t one. [...]