澳洲开发商Firemint本周四发表博客宣布，热门付费手机游戏《Flight Control》在App Store下载量已达390万次。

据游戏邦了解，这一销量比去年1月份增长了将近两倍，当时该游戏的下载量是200万次。

玩家在《Flight Control》的游戏任务是追踪不同飞机的航线，指引直升飞机、大型客机、小型班机到达不同的着陆地点。从下列图表中可以看出，这款游戏在初次发布、推出新地图、两个圣诞假期以及增加iPhone 4超高解像度屏幕功能这几个时期的销量增幅最为明显。

Flight Control-chart

游戏邦还发现，在去年9月苹果推出Game Center游戏平台后，这款游戏又创造了一个下载高峰。在本次公布的390万次下载量中，该游戏在美国的销量就占据了160万次，已经跻身苹果App Store最热门付费应用前十强的行列。

除了《Flight Control》，Firemint开发的另一款游戏是《实况赛车》（Real Racing）系列，该游戏最初投放于iPhone平台，现在也推出了iPad高清版本。

需要指出的是，《Flight Control》的这个下载数据仅包括iPhone和iPod Touch版本的销量，并不包含去年3月登陆iPad平台的高清版，以及PlayStation Network、Steam和任天堂DSiWare版本。

此外，Firemint在本月初还宣布收购了《Puzzle Quest》的开发商、澳洲墨尔本的Infinite Interactive工作室。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

Firemint: iPhone Flight Control Sells 3.9M Units

Australian developer Firemint said in a Thursday blog post that to date, the company has sold 3.9 million paid units of its hit App Store game Flight Control.

The amount is nearly double the sales figure Firemint released for the game in January last year, when the developer announced 2 million in unit sales.

The game has players trace flight paths for different types of aircraft, in order to direct helicopters, airliners and smaller aircraft to their respective landing areas.

According to a graph released by the developer (below), sales of the game spiked soon after the game’s original launch, after the release of new maps, during two different Christmas holidays and with the addition of support for iPhone 4′s high-resolution Retina display.

Sales of the game saw the second-highest spike shortly after the September 2010 launch of Apple’s Game Center gaming community platform.

Flight Control’s U.S. sales accounted for most of the game’s total sales, with 1.6 million units sold in the region. The game is number 10 on Apple’s all-time paid apps chart in the country.

Firemint is also the developer behind the Real Racing series, which originally debuted on iPhone and is now on iPad as Real Racing HD.

The studio’s latest Flight Control figures only include sales of the iPhone and iPod Touch version of the game. In March last year, the developer released Flight Control HD on iPad, and has also launched versions on PlayStation Network, Steam and Nintendo’s DSiWare.

Earlier this month, Firemint announced that it acquired fellow Melbourne, Australia-based studio, Puzzle Quest developer Infinite Interactive.（source:gamasutra）