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Chrizum on 07 January 2009

I wonder what constitutes "succes" for this game. 400k? 500k? A million?

I can see this game sell between 400k and 500k, but anything above it is wishful thinking. It's quite an unusual game, so they can't expect miracles from it.

De Blob is from THQ though, and it'll be a million seller within a couple of months.



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Untouch on 07 January 2009

Will do sir!



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Avinash_Tyagi on 07 January 2009

Arachnaphobe here, so I definetly wont be buying it



 

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)

Kasz216 on 07 January 2009
Avinash_Tyagi said:
Arachnaphobe here, so I definetly wont be buying it

 

Couldn't you just play as the scorpion?



Avinash_Tyagi on 07 January 2009
Kasz216 said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
Arachnaphobe here, so I definetly wont be buying it

 

Couldn't you just play as the scorpion?

 

 Scorpions are Arachnids as well



 

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)

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bigjon on 07 January 2009
theprof00 said:
de Blob is one of the defacto games for the wii. It is an amazing game, and it fits the casual style of gaming, it is rated well for a very good reason.
If an awesome game can only sell 700k units in four months on an install base of 45 million then yes i would consider that a failure.
Of course it will make money, but then again carnival games probably has an eigth of the cost and nearly double the sales.

I don't think Deadly Creature will even sell close to what de Blob sold.

lol, if De Blob was a PS360 game it would not have sold 670k already. I am sorry they do not buy those types of games.

 



End of 2009 Predictions (Set, January 1st 2009)

Wii- 72 million   3rd Year Peak, better slate of releases

360- 37 million   Should trend down slightly after 3rd year peak

PS3- 29 million  Sales should pick up next year, 3rd year peak and price cut

theprof00 on 07 January 2009
bigjon said:
theprof00 said:
de Blob is one of the defacto games for the wii. It is an amazing game, and it fits the casual style of gaming, it is rated well for a very good reason.
If an awesome game can only sell 700k units in four months on an install base of 45 million then yes i would consider that a failure.
Of course it will make money, but then again carnival games probably has an eigth of the cost and nearly double the sales.

I don't think Deadly Creature will even sell close to what de Blob sold.

lol, if De Blob was a PS360 game it would not have sold 670k already. I am sorry they do not buy those types of games.

 

what the hell are you even saying? that doesn't say anything in reference to my post lol. it is bigjon though :P

EDIT: plus it would have at least one sale, me! I'm sure I could convince 4 or 5 people to buy it. I brought katamari to my circle. I sold like 20 people on that game, this is another title that not many people are going to know about, and it is the job of the fan to spread the word. help that shit go viral if you disagree so much, it won't be that hard, it's an amazing game.

 



travis on 07 January 2009

I'll buy this game day one. I'm pretty confident that the reviews will be good. Previews were excellent and they pushed back the game to polish it more.

And I defenetly agree with Zucas on this one, the key here is to market the game well. With something like 400 000 sales the game will probably be very profitable. With 600 000-700 000 the game would be a real success. I'm really affraid of the unknown new IP effect. I hope it won,t do as bas as Mushroom man.



NJ5 on 07 January 2009

If a developer can potentially not make games which sell well, thus having to switch to another genre (which is getting saturated), why exactly should I care?



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SmokedHostage on 07 January 2009

If marketed in the right manner, it should sell well.



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