de Blob Tops 700k Worldwide

By Jorge Ba-oh 01.03.2009 6

de Blob Tops 700k Worldwide on Nintendo gaming news, videos and discussion

THQ has reported strong success with the well-received Wii-exclusive de Blob, Big Beach Sports and licensed titles.

Company CEO Brian Farrell revealed last week that the unique de Blob has sold over 700k units worldwide, and even during troubled economic times has managed to retain its original $49.99 price point after 5 months on the market. Farrell discussed a "three prong" strategy for approaching the Wii - including "high production" games like de Blob; value titles for example Beach Sports, and finally licensed products.

There was also hints of an unannounced Wii title that's "very focused…niche", but is expected to do well. The main competition THQ feel is Nintendo themselves: "The people, who buy Nintendo games, [we want to] get them to buy things like de Blob."

On the portable front THQ is looking to bring key franchises to the DSi/DS.

Thanks to NeoGAF.

Box art for de Blob
Developer

Blue Tongue

Publisher

THQ

Genre

Adventure

Players

1

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Reader Score

Rated $score out of 10  9/10 (4 Votes)

European release date Q1 2008   North America release date Q1 2008   Japan release date TBA   Australian release date Q1 2008   

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satsubatsu347 is offline. satsubatsu347 01.03.2009#1

This is good news but, really, how many games do not retain this price after 5 months? Mario Galaxy is still there.

 
jb is offline. jb 01.03.2009#2

That's the thing - tis good for a third party game to still be going strong, and a good game at that.

To have a strong start and continued success is great especially for a new franchise buried in a heap of top Nintendo games and crap 3rd party shovelware.

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zcollvee (aka zafarali) is offline. zcollvee (aka zafarali) 01.03.2009#3

I want this game...


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RudyC3 is offline. RudyC3 01.03.2009#4

Also good to mention IMO would be the fact that the game actually continues being supplied to retailers, which is not the case with most high productions from other third party studios. I still can\'t find Okami anywhere on the shelves (i\'m to import a US version this monthon Play Asia, i\'ve got no choice), No More Heroes was barely supplied in most of local stores where i live, and so on ... How do you expect a game to sell well if you don\'t keep on supplying retailers with them ??

Most \"big\" third parties stop supplying their games like two or three months after its release when it failed to perform well right from the launch day. I don\'t think De Blob shone that bright on its launch week, and see how good it has performed in the long run, like 6 month later ?

The likes of Capcom should learn from guys like them at THQ. De Blob is still verywhere to be found, at various prices, ranging from 25€ to 40€ (i got mine at 34€, only one week after its release date)

EDIT : the \"?\" (questions marks) stand for \"EURO\", the site doesn\'t seem to handle some Extended-ASCII characters...

( Edited 01.03.2009 20:38 by Kafei2006 )

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Wolvesgod is offline. Wolvesgod 01.03.2009#5

Wow, it's nice to see third parties to challenge Nintendo on their own console thats good.

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~phil is offline. ~phil 02.03.2009#6

And you know what? It totally deserves it. Well done, THQ.

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