Crackdown booms into XBLM chart history

The demo of Crackdown from RealTime Worlds just made quite an explosion in the Xbox Live Marketplace this week. Released just a couple of days back (January 23), it’s already bumped out Fight Night and Lost Planet from the charts. All this, even without the beta of Halo 3 under its belt.

The demo was only available for Gold members, but that didn’t stop it from making a record in Microsoft history. They just confirmed with IGN that the playable demo was the most downloaded demo for a 24-hour period and the most downloaded demo during a seven-day period.

Making records, yeah? Given the figures, maybe the number of copies sold could also follow suit. Despite a lot of commenters saying that Crackdown would be able to boost its sales because of the Halo 3 demo included, the number of downloads can actually speak for itself. However, the only way for us to find that out is to wait for its release this coming February…

The demo of Crackdown from RealTime Worlds just made quite an explosion in the Xbox Live Marketplace this week. Released just a couple of days back (January 23), it’s already bumped out Fight Night and Lost Planet from the charts. All this, even without the beta of Halo 3 under its belt.

The demo was only available for Gold members, but that didn’t stop it from making a record in Microsoft history. They just confirmed with IGN that the playable demo was the most downloaded demo for a 24-hour period and the most downloaded demo during a seven-day period.

Making records, yeah? Given the figures, maybe the number of copies sold could also follow suit. Despite a lot of commenters saying that Crackdown would be able to boost its sales because of the Halo 3 demo included, the number of downloads can actually speak for itself. However, the only way for us to find that out is to wait for its release this coming February…