By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close

Forums - Sales - Riddick and Wheelman = Epic Fail in US sales? Already down to $39.99

Lolcislaw on 14 April 2009

I think the problem to certain extent lies in userbase that mainly tends to buy the big so called "AAA" games which are reviewed well, have hype behind and have big advertising budget. Therefore smaller games tend to get ignore by gamers...



Around the Network
averyblund on 15 April 2009

I'm kinda surprised Wheelman crashed and burned. It has been heavily advertised on techcentric TV and is obviously a Fast and Furious cashin. As for Riddick I will be buying it when it is $20-$30 just for Butcher Bay. I hear the Athena stuff is crap though.



XBL: WiiVault Wii: PM me  PSN: WiiVault

PC: AMD Athlon II Quadcore 635 (OC to 4.0ghz) , ATI Radeon 5770 1GB (x2)

MacBook Pro C2D 2.8ghz, 9600m GT 512 iMac: C2D 2.0, X2600XT 256

 

Legend11 on 15 April 2009
ill Soriku said:
Legend11 said:
ItsaMii said:
Come on, the combined budget of those games doesn`t even come close to MadWorld. Leave the HD consoles alone.
Let`s talk about how Zack & Wiki, No More Heroes, Boom Blox all failed to break the (very realistic) 1M barrier.

 

Well at least Riddick and Wheelman had tough competition.  MadWorld had the field pretty much completely to itself and still flopped.  As for cost, I've seen a lot more advertising for MadWorld than I ever did for Wheelman or Riddick, and how much would Riddick really cost considering it's basically an upgrade of an already great looking Xbox game with a few additional levels.

 

*Tries to remember if VG Chartz' logo changed for Riddick or other gaming websites having significant amounts of advertising for it.  Also tries to remember if local videogame stores had advertising for Riddick like they did for MadWorld.  Hmm...*

 

Yes, it flopped after few weeks of sales and is now holding steady =/ And MadWorld is still a short game for $50 with no price drops as of yet.

 

Still holding steady based on what?  It's already out of the top 40 in the UK.  And it likely only managed to hang on in the Wii full priced top 10 because of a massive price drop.  I guess we'll have to wait to see how it holds up in the US.



MonstaMack on 16 April 2009

Riddick went up to $45 but is now that price on Amazon as well.
Wheelman $40 still on Gamestop.

#1 online retailers in the US not showing much love for these to still has me to believe these games bombed in the US. Don't care what any of you naysayers have to say.



It's just that simple.