The analyst company FADE have published some numbers for Playstation Network in 2010 and they are seeing a trend that sales of third party PSN/XBLA with simultaneous release are now closer than ever (quoted as 55/45 in favour of XBLA where it used to 2 XBLA sales for every PSN sale). You can still see that the sales of top exclusives and that the top sellers don't reach close to the numbers on XBLA, but some numbers are still impressive (such as Dead Nation doing 122,000 copies in December alone).
During the second half of 2010 PSN saw a growth of 40 % (compared to XBLA growing 18 %) and in December PSN grossed $9.3 million.FADE also estimates the number of PSN Plus members to be over 100,000 and rising.
Here are the top sales for the second half of 2010:
1. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Ubisoft) - 190,000 Units
2. Castle Crashers (The Behemoth) - 143,000 Units
3. ZEN Pinball (Zen Studios) - 127,000 Units
4. Dead Nation (Housemarque) - 122,000 Units
5. Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 (SEGA) - 113,000 Units
6. Critter Crunch (Capybara Games) - 100,000 Units
7. Blacklight: Tango Down (Ignition Entertainment) - 97,000 Units
8. DeathSpank (Hothead Games) - 97,000 Units
9. Pac-Man CE DX (Namco Bandai) - 96,000 Units
10. Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse (Telltale Games) - 80,000 Units