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Forums - Sales Discussion - Darksiders: selling under expectations and being discontinued?

alfredofroylan on 03 February 2010

I hope not...

An analyst has recently revealed that evidence from THQ's Q3 earnings report may suggest that Darksiders sold well under the publisher's expectations. Signal Hill Capital's Todd Greenwald believes that the excellent action/adventure game couldn't shift a million copies, despite the critical success and significant marketing campaign.

"[Darksiders] didn't perform up to THQ's expectations," explains Greenwald, "likely selling less than 1 million units despite heavy marketing dollars [and] 2-3 years of development costs." The analyst also adds that the game was being discounted in stores after only two weeks of sale.
It's hard for a new franchise to sell these days, but games with pedigree and good reviews like this and Boyonetta deserve more, anyway 2-3 years of development is a lot I didn't know that.


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Christhor on 03 February 2010

What?? It's selling great. Well either that or it's overtracked here...



gansito on 03 February 2010

ouch, that sucks. THQ finally managed to make a good product, but it ain't selling. Hope the game drops in price like a rock soon.



letsdance on 03 February 2010

I dont believe 2 weeks of data is enough to come to this conclusion. I call fake.



Cr33py P3rv on 03 February 2010

Wow, it sold alright.

But yeah seems like they shipped a lot of copies to stores...they probably expected it to sell more. Best buy and Gamestop near me don't know where to store the unsold coppies.

Bayonetta on the other hand seems like is selling less but is almost always sold out or they have 1 -2 copies around. So Sega probably played it safe with shippments.



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Slimebeast on 03 February 2010

Hey, discontinued isn't a synonym to discounted lol.



alfredofroylan on 03 February 2010
Slimebeast said:
Hey, discontinued isn't a synonym to discounted lol.

Yes I did that typo, sorry for that I hope some mod could fix it.



fazz on 03 February 2010

I blame Nintendo's dominance on the Wii for this... wait... this isn't a Wii game? My bad...

Come on THQ, it's been on sale for just three weeks. Not all games can sell like Modern Warfare 2...



Vetteman94 on 03 February 2010
fazz said:
I blame Nintendo's dominance on the Wii for this... wait... this isn't a Wii game? My bad...

Come on THQ, it's been on sale for just three weeks. Not all games can sell like Modern Warfare 2...


Exactly,  just give it some time it may surprise you.  I plan on picking this up, just not now since there is too much coming out soon and I have a full plate as it is.



.jayderyu on 03 February 2010

I'm going to disagree. Neither of these games deserved to sell more. After looking at both games they have something in common. They are the 20 ish variation of said game. I don't know what game started the style, but these two games have hit market saturation of the content. Changing the graphics of a game doesn't make a new genre or game. It's obvious that just making another one won't sell.

"It's not about who's better, it's about being first and good enough."
Neither of these are near first and maybe they are better, but other games got their first and are good enough. In a way these games shouldn't have been made, but that would be unfortunate to the people who made it.

For the now the company needs to consider. Grow the game like most things in the world or dump it because of shallow reasons that's it's not an instant hit exception.



Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.