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Forums - Sales Discussion - De Blob Sales (at least in AUS) are a huge disappointment

thanny on 23 October 2008

I dont know about the rest of the world, but in Australia ever since its release De Blob has been getting huge publicity. it has heavy advertisement in all the game-shops catalogues, ive seen random catalogues that will have a TV for sale, with De Blob on the screen and other stuff like that. I went to Big W yesterday (biggest everything shop around here) and out the front of the games section they had a massive stand of just De Blob. There where 5 rows, 4 copies of De Blob wide and each was 3-4 deep. There was probably 70 copies of De Blob there. Impossible to miss

yet in Australia it charted seventh out of Wii games, and who knows how far down on overall charts (GFK only show top 10 of each platfrom and overall)  The sales are alright, and its good to see it maintaining/rising slightly in sales since its realease, but normally games that get that much publicity sell waaaay better. Makes me sad :(



 

 

 

 

 

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johnsobas on 23 October 2008

ok but it's doing fine overall in europe and in NA. Legs will show how far it will go in the end but it's clear it's gonna have legs.



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--OkeyDokey-- on 23 October 2008

lol, I saw that same catalogue :P

Well, that seems in line with how it's been selling everywhere else, even though it is getting a lot more exposure down here.



Falcon095 on 23 October 2008

I don't think that we should expect big sales from this game (i'm not saying it's bad) but if it has as heavy advertisement as you say then we need to wait andsee if it's sales will get better



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MANUELF on 23 October 2008

Thanks to that advertisement is why it has no drop in sales



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megaman79 on 23 October 2008

Yeah look what were the Gfk numbers? 7th on the Wii top ten for the last two weeks right. Seemed like the only game above de Blob, apart from Nintendo titles, was SW.

Thats bloody Star Wars and it was heavily hyped so i wouldn't worry. Just be patient i guess.

I was hoping for a bigger hit too but who knows, the legs are lookin up atleast.



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thanny on 23 October 2008

latest GfK numbers:
http://www.aussie-nintendo.com/?pageid=article&t=13271

1st week was 8th
2nd was 6th
now 7th
-- of wii games only of course.



 

 

 

 

 

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shams on 23 October 2008

I was going to buy it... but saw WarioLand Shake at the same time - and for $10 less. So I picked that up instead. Sorry De Blob - maybe next time (I go shopping for games!).



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megaman79 on 23 October 2008

Well if you consider WL and SDA, De Blob has out performed those titles in the last 2 weeks.

Clearly brand names sell better and maybe after Wall E and SW die down it will get back up.



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Kihniö on 23 October 2008

Let see if the holidays will be good to this game