Super Meat Boy Sells 600,000 Copies, Meat Cube Deaths Could be More

Who would have thought that a skinless piece of cube could’ve gone this far? In an interview over at Pocketful of Megabytes, Super Meat Boy creators, Edmund Mcmillen and Tommy Refenes, unveiled that the game has sold around 600,000 copies across Steam and Xbox Live Arcade.

The numbers came from the total of Steam’s sales of 400,000 and Xbov Live Arcade’s 200,000 sales. The creators credit the Steam sales to a holiday promotion sale, which catapulted the game to where it stands today.

Owing their success to the convenience of downloadable content, are the people over at Team Meat ready to enter the retail market for the Nintendo 3DS version of the game?

“We don’t exactly what we want to do,” Mcmillen said. “The more freedom you have the better. And that’s why we’re leaning towards not doing retail, because it’d just cause more problems for us. … We’ve heard that the downloadable stuff is going to be much better for the 3DS.”

Super Meat Boy is a platform game developed by Team Meat for the Xbox 360 (Xbox Live Arcade) and PC. Become an animated cube of meat, and save your girl friend from a vile fetus wearing a tux who lives in a jar. Journey through tough terrains and relive the days when games are just straight-forward platforming.

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