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Mirror's Edge bombed :'(

Banjo is selling like a 10 year old game...

Motorstorm 2... meh compared to 1st game

Da Blob fail everywhere :"O

 

What's with this holiday season eh? great games are flopping left and right...

 



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Part of the risk of releasing a game during the holidays is that you have competition wiht a lot of other products. That's a risk developers knowingly take. Remember the majority of games don't' sell more than 250k in their lifetime.

Now for a lot of these games I think we should hold off til after Black Friday week to see how they hold up just to make sure but if they still sell abysmal after that then they are a flop.



Im afraid for Left 4 Dead too....



GOTY Contestants this year: Dead Space 2, Dark Souls, Tales of Graces f. Everything else can suck it.

bugrimmar said:

Da Blob fail everywhere :"O

What's with this holiday season eh? great games are flopping left and right...

 

Sales from deBlob.

0.11m 0.10m 0.21m
Week 1 n/a 18,403 9,102 27,505
Week 2 n/a 16,934 14,191 31,125
Week 3 n/a 21,494 12,329 33,823
Week 4 n/a 16,817 16,975 33,792
Week 5 n/a 13,229 13,580 26,809
Week 6 n/a 11,111 10,385 21,496
Week 7 n/a 9,530 9,256 18,786
Week 8 n/a n/a 12,104 12,104

It's a slow burner but keeps a good amount of sales per week. (this week on Others was better than the last 2 weeks), except from Japan but that country is more focused on handhelds



well hopefully Banjo will have legs....because thats a very bad start..



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but da blob is the shiznit. it should be selling far more than... that.



Cod WaW for the wii did worse than I expected..



 

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bugrimmar said:
but da blob is the shiznit. it should be selling far more than... that.

Yes but it's difficult to convence people to buy a new IP about coloring. Seems like the good mouth to mouth publicity is helping to keep steady sales. (just like Boom Blox)

 



leo-j said:
Cod WaW for the wii did worse than I expected..

 

Yea it did pretty bad.  Wii Fit, MK Wii, and Wii Play just sucking all the sales out of other games.



Zucas said:

Yea it did pretty bad.  Wii Fit, MK Wii, and Wii Play just sucking all the sales out of other games.

It's difficult to convince people to buy certain games, specially with a multifaceted user base.