Casual thriving as Microsoft details best Live games of 2009

January 11th, 2010, 18:35 Posted By: wraggster

Casual games have featured prominently in Microsoft's list of the most popular games on it's online Xbox 360 Live service. While the likes of Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4 dominate, a number of casual games have joined the best selling and most played online games on a console that appears to be courting an increasingly diverse userbase.
In the Xbox 360 top Live titles, which is based on unique users, interactive quiz show 1 vs 100 charts as the 17th most played game, while in the list of the best selling downloadable Arcade titles Hasbro Family Game Night takes forth place and Uno and Peggle secure 8th and 10th positions respectively.
The charts, detailed on on Microsoft's official unofficial blog Major Nelson, the top selling Indie games are also listed, and again casual titles boast a healthy presence, with the likes of Rumble Massage, myFishtank and Aquarium HD featuring prominantly.

The only chart without any casual titles is the Xbox Originals list, which shows the most played games from the first generation Xbox downloaded for the 360. Despite the absence of casual sector inclusions, in context with the other charts it demonstrates how Microsoft have managed in one console generation to move from courting an entirely hardcore audience to a far more varied demographic.

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