Firemint announced yesterday that Flight Control, its world-wide hit game for iPhone and iPod touch, has landed over 1.5 million sales. The game was released six months ago on 5 March 2009, and has become one of the outstanding App Store success stories.
The wildly popular game has received rave reviews from players and reviewers alike, and has reached the #1 paid app position on the iTunes charts in 20 countries including USA, UK, Japan, Germany, France, Canada and Australia. Flight Control is the first paid game to have announced 1.5 million sales on the platform and its runaway success has spawned the entirely new “Control” genre, giving rise to numerous path-drawing games.
Firemint’s CEO, Robert Murray said “I’m just so incredibly grateful to all the many people around the world who have embraced Flight Control and helped us to reach this amazing milestone. There’s still a lot more Flight Control to come!”
Flight Control is loved by players of all ages around the world because of its simple yet highly addictive gameplay. Players take on the role of air traffic controllers, and touch and drag aircraft to their landing zones in gameplay that is perfectly matched to the iPhone’s interface. Since its release, several free updates for owners of the game have added a dedicated web site with extensive leaderboards and social network community features, new airfields and aircraft, and two-player mode.
Flight Control is available for US$0.99 from Apple’s App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/. For more information about Flight Control, please visit www.firemint.com/flightcontrol
Congratulations
Congratulations to the Firemint team.
Your impressive sales figures are well deserved.
Scott.
Based on a 30% commission
Based on a 30% commission from Apple,
The net return from Flight Control would be around $1,050,000US, not bad for a game that probably took 1 or 2 people just doing stuff in their free time.
Awesome
Great to hear a success story out of Oz for a change.