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Dead Space Extraction, Spyborgs Sales Were Terrible

October 19, 2009 in News comments 4

While many Wii owners are calling for more hardcore games, is it really worth it for the developers?
Dead Space sold fairly well on the PS3/360, but Dead Space: Extraction hasn't done too well at all. Despite recieving great reviews, the game barely managed to sell 9,000 units.

Capcom's Spyborgs did even worse, selling a mere 500 copies in September.

Embarassing!

Extraction, which launched in North America on September 29, sold just north of 9,000 units. Even though the NPD Group calculated data only from August 30 to October 3 (Extraction was in stores on September 29), it seems as though the title isn’t off to a good start at all (compare this data to Muramasa, which is an unestablished property) and reinforces what a Visceral Games employee said earlier today.

In other news, Capcom’s Spyborgs saw an absolutely dreadful debut. Numbers for the game fall somewhere around 500 copies sold in September.
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    Akira_EX Oct 20, 09
    In before "lol Wii hardcore"
    In before "bubububut it was a rail shooter"

    NPD pegged it at >9k, and all sorts of games bombed in this past year, just makes this one failed test out of the games that did sell decently (of which Spyborgs did not). A valiant effort, but the userbase simply doesn't value the title at $50 MSRP. Does it deter? Yes, of course. Should it stop publishers from trying? Of course not. There's still money to be had.

    At least EA has more information on how to go about with a Wii game: you can't go super-casual (see all the shovelware that doesn't sell), yet you can't strip games of mechanics that were important to a series (even though it is a quality product like Dead Space Extraction). It's a more unpredictable market than the PS3/360 market, in which anyone and their mother can tell what sells on those systems.

    It's interesting to say the least; even Nintendo hasn't had the market fully-pegged yet.
  • 0
    conel3 Oct 20, 09
    I loved Dead Space but Extraction just looked terrible. I actually like rail shooters but the graphics looked like ps2 graphics and it just looked so bland.
    • 0
      Daweii Oct 20, 09
      Conel. The Wii pretty much is PS2 graphics there is not much under the hood for the money you pay for the system.
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    bbb7002004 Oct 20, 09
    Spyborgs deserves to fail after they took a unique and humorous concept and made it as bland as bland gets.

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