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The Peopleless console? TowerFall sells a meager 7,000 copies on Ouya but hits stride on PS4

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The critically acclaimed TowerFall sold just 7,000 copies on the Ouya Android microconsole. But it sold much better on the PlayStation 4 and the PC, with the total gross hitting $500,000 across all platforms.

Ouya chief executive Julie Uhrman touted TowerFall as a “killer app” before Ouya’s debut in mid-2013. But TowerFall developer Matt Thorson told Eurogamer that the it sold poorly on the microconsole. All told, TowerFall likely sold about 33,000 copies at a $15 price, not considering discounts.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.