Article from the Sony EU blog (http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2010/07/14/minis-pass-1-million-downloads/). Very encouraging – looks like Minis have a bright future.

Hi everyone

Today we would like to announce that we have hit a minis milestone, one million downloads from the PlayStation Store across the PAL and US territories! Thank you to all of you who helped us reach one million minis downloaded and here’s to the next million downloads!

Playable on both PlayStation Portable (PSP), and PlayStation 3 (PS3), minis offers a huge selection of bite-size games; all at tiny prices and all quick and easy to download from PlayStation Store. There is now a great range of minis available with something for everyone.

Since minis launched in October 2009 the category has continued to grow and now contains more than 85 minis, from over 50 developers including favourites like Monopoly from Electronic Arts and new classics like Monster (Probably) Stole My Princess from the independent games developer Mediatonic.

Check out some of the favourites and best selling minis titles on PlayStation Store today and take a look at the top ten most popular downloads which range from Spot the Differences! to chart topper Zombie Tycoon!

minis top ten by downloads (excluding single format minis):

1. Age of Zombies
2. Monopoly
3. Fieldrunners
4. Zombie Tycoon
5. Bloons
6. Spot The Differences!
   
7. Pinball Fantasies
8. Mahjongg Artifacts: Chapter 2
9. Yetisports Pengu Throw
10. Breakquest

With more coming on board every day, including Pacman CE from Namco Bandi Networks, we are set to have more choice than ever in the coming months.

We know there are minis and PlayStation fans that want to know more about minis and who better to get the information from than some of our favourite developers. So we will be hosting a live web chat on the blog tomorrow with:

• Antonio José, CTO & Chairman at StormBASIC Games, publisher of the minis Tehra Dark Warrior and Dynogems
• Paul Croft, Cofounder & Director of Games at Mediatonic, publisher of the minis Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess and the upcoming Who’s That Flying?!
• Joe Dixon, Lead Coder at Tag Games, publisher of the minis title Car Jack Streets.

So please let us know what you want to know. Send in your questions and get the answers you want!

See you tomorrow!

Thanks
Adam

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