The Top 10

For February no new titles made it into the Top 10, the newest title being Hustle Kings from January which has continued to do well from its first month -- better than Inferno Pool ever did.

Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, Flower and TMNT Re-Shelled were all on sale at some point in the month, which is why all three have reappaeared on the list. Madden NFL Arcade’s resurgence is likely due to the real-life Super Bowl in the second week of the month.

In terms of PSOne classics Magic Carpet, Mass Destruction, Sorcerer's Maze, Dirt Jockey: Heavy Equipment Operator, Populous: The Beginning, Theme Park World and Grandia were all released in North America in February, but none of them made it to the Top 10. Grandia's release was at the end of the month, so it may appear on next months charts. The only PSOne classics are the standard fare - the Final Fantasy games and Resident Evil 2.

Leaderboard Statistics

We’ve had to drop a few games this month – Peggle, Peggle Nights and Topatoi are no longer viewable thanks to the PlayStation Network’s low ceiling to their Leaderboard statistics. Leaderboards can only show 1 million players across all Leaderboards of one game, so these games no longer add new players who have poor scores.

What we can see is a lot of titles still doing very well despite their age – Braid, Critter Crunch, Mushroom Wars and Tank Battles still add a lot of players each month, more-so than Xbox Live Arcade titles have in the same time frame.

Not everything is great though – Fret Nice didn’t do well at all, not even able to hit 1,000 players in the 4 weeks it was available, and Assault Heroes has continued to do poorly, not surprising since it’s such an old title ported over to the system.

Looking Forward

March will be an interesting month -- we do have the Mega Man 10 and Feeding Frenzy 2 and Wakeboard HD, it's quite a variety, but whether they will stick is something we just don't know.