http://www.vgchartz.com/article/85690/portal-2-day-one-sales-report-americas/

As you can see from the link above, Portal 2 sold more than 600 thousand units in one day only in America. This is more than Crysis 2 sold in the first week. So you could extrapolate that they could sell 7 times more than Crytek if that stays the same way.

Portal 1 sold 4 Mio retail units. There are probably 2-3 Mio additionally Steam units. Crysis 1 sold 3 Mio. So Valve probably sold at least double the amount.

I find this really interesting. I mean this is a pure puzzle game, so it serves some kind of a niche market. And this niche is obviously quite big.

We saw another success lately in another niche: Minecraft.

Or look at the huge amount of sold units of "Angry Birds".

It looks like it is more rewarding to serve a niche very well than following the trends of big publishers.

If a white ball has more character than every single character in a different game together, i'll definitely take the game with the white ball. Nuff said

He has a name you know! And feelings! Well artificial feelings, but still!

But he is.. he doesn't... you know :<

I'm pretty sure Valve has internally a thread named "Portal 2" and every developer just writes "omg omg omg omg omg" into it =/

This game it's a perfect mix of adventure, intriguing story,
simple accessible gameplay (but deep) telling and puzzle (rewarding)

The main points are pleasure to solve puzzles, immersive story
and world, fun , joy !

A8 can do FPS games, what you have is to find an original gameplay/concept, polish it, and be sure that it bring pleasure
to people playing it !

Well A8 people should really study new concepts, things,
they could go far !

Like the 3DGS game AAAAhhaahahaa that is sold on Steam,
a simple idea,simple gameplay, but very fun, polished, simple but attractive graphics !

Trivia: Three of the Potato Sack games bundled with the Portal 2 pre-release were created using A7.

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/71...aunching-early/

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/04/portals-opening-all-over-steams-potato-sack-indie-games/

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/04/13/portal...released-early/

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/vie...otato-Sack-Devs

3DGS representin', yo.

Congrats
Two of your games in there, if I'm not mistaken? Well done!

P.S.: awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3emvsWvgmtI

3, actually

Wonderful End of the World, Aaaaa, Kick That Baby (I'm paraphrasing).

Jibb

@Ichiro :
Just curiosity, are you working in another simple originla game actually ?