Apple now shares at least one honor with The World’s Tallest Man, The World’s Longest Bearded Lady and that creepy shut-in with twisting, twenty foot long fingernails: they’ve all won Guinness World Records.
The iPhone 4 has picked up the record for the ‘Fastest-Selling Portable Game System’ in this year’s Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition thanks to selling an incredible 1.5 million units on its launch day last June. Guinness compared that to the PlayStation Portable which sold only 200,000 units on its first day, and the Nintendo DS which only managed 500,000 units in its first week.
The App Store also set a world record for “Most Popular Application Marketplace” with over 260,000 titles as of September 2010. Unfortunately of full 61 of those, Guinness notes, are “flatulence simulators, a genre that includes such masterpieces as Fart Machine, Fart Ocarina and iFart – Epic Rip Edition.”
37,362 of those 260,000 titles are games, making the App Store the largest downloadable video game store. While Guinness offered no details on the Android Market for comparison, it did note that other competitors, such as the Xbox Live Arcade and Wii’s Virtual Console, only boasted around 1,300 and 576 titles respectively.
Several games within the App Store also set world records: Angry Birds, of course, scooped “Top Paid-For App Store Game in Most Countries” with a staggering 6.5 million paid downloads in over 67 countries.
Guinness’ gaming editor, Gaz Deaves, said in a statement:
The release of the iPhone has not just changed the mobile industry, but the video game world too .
Other titles that set records include Tap Tap Revenge for the “Most Popular iPhone Game Series” with over 15 million downloads – also making it the most popular App Store game in history; and Plants vs. Zombies for the Fastest-Selling “iPhone/iPod Strategy Game,” which achieved 300,000 downloads and $1 million in revenue in its first 9 days in the App Store.
[via Macworld]
