Flight Control breaks 2 million sales

Firemint have announced the great news that their popular Flight Control iphone/itouch appstore game has hit another new incredible milestone. Flight Control has surpassed 2 million sales in less than a year.

Helping push sales were the game websites which listed Flight Control in their "best of 2009 apps" listings around the end of last year. While Apple does take their 30% share of the sales, what's left is still quite a substantial amount for the Melbourne game developer.

From the Firemint website...

Less than a year ago, on 5 March 2009, we launched Flight Control on the App Store. Three months later, we had sold 1 million copies. Today we’re proud to announce that after 324 days, on 23 January 2010, Flight Control sold the 2 millionth download – that’s over 6,000 sales per day on average! We had particularly big days on 28 and 29 March 2009 when Flight Control suddenly exploded up the charts, with over 30,000 copies sold each day. Even 9 months after release, Christmas Day 2009 was also a great day with over 20,000 copies sold – many probably going to happy new owners of an iPhone or iPod touch!

The commercial success of Flight Control has meant that it has taken the number one spot for the "Top 100 paid apps" charts in many countries around the world including USA, UK, Australia, Germany, France, Canada and Japan.

Firemint have provided a chart which breaks down the sales of Flight Control for each country, and it's interesting to see how large the U.S section is, and it's great to see that Australia is just behind Great Britain as the third highest in sales numbers.