Plants vs. Zombies has become the best selling product in the history of iPhone App Store. In just nine days, more than 300,000 copies of the games have been downloaded by iPhone users. The game ranked on the number one spot for eight days in a row immediately after its launch on the app store. The game was first launched on PCs in May 2009. A teaser of the game was showed in a music video which became very popular on YouTube. TG Daily reports:
Plants vs. Zombies is a unique take on the huge zombie craze by moving away from the gritty gore and instead creating a really cartoony look and feel. The aim is to set up flowers in a tower defense style that shoot weapons at incoming zombies.
The iPhone version of the games is the only games to earn a million dollars in less than ten days. The game was created by PopCap, a game producing company that was founded in 2000 by John Vechey, Brian Fiete and Jason Kapalka. These people have experience in working for Internet gaming companies like Flipside and pogo.com. When the Internet gaming was losing its popularity, PopCap decided to create simple games that people could play on the Internet and it worked.
Andrew Stein, director of mobile business development, PopCap said that while releasing a game on small screen which had been previously released on PC, there is a possibility that something would be lost in the process but user enjoyed more playing Plants vs. Zombies on the smaller touchscreen. On February 25, 2010, Pop Cap also announced that Bejeweled 2, another of its popular games crossed three million units in sales on iPhone and became the first game to do so.
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