EA's Facebreaker falls in first round, sells 52k units
by Alexander Sliwinski 
{ Oct 17th 2008 at 4:30PM }
A Wii version of Facebreaker, which may (?) perform better than its Xbox 360 and PS3 cousins, is expected in November. Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter says the poor sales aren't really that big of a deal for EA, considering how well it's doing with Mercenaries 2, Spore, Warhammer and Dead Space.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Haggard @ Oct 17th 2008 4:33PM
Well, there must still be a market for fighting games. I guess they just didn't appreciate this.
Scott @ Oct 17th 2008 4:38PM
I think there is a market for fighting games that don't suck. Not so much for fighting games that do suck...like Facebreaker.
Derek @ Oct 17th 2008 4:37PM
I'm going to state that EA damn well deserved this to flop as soon as they payed that piece of shit Kim Kardashian to market this.
Doug @ Oct 17th 2008 5:59PM
The game was just flat-out ugly.
And I'm not talking about the graphics, either.
BlackBeltJones @ Oct 17th 2008 4:38PM
"A Wii version of Facebreaker, which may (?) perform better than its Xbox 360 and PS3 cousins"
Translation: Facebreaker is a crappy game and should sell better on the Wii where the fanbase doesn't know any better.
Monkey Thing?!!? @ Oct 17th 2008 4:59PM
Facebreaker is a cartoony game, and may sell better where cartoony games sell.
Fox318 @ Oct 17th 2008 5:21PM
"Facebreaker is a cartoony game, and may sell better where cartoony games sell."
More like:
Facebreaker is a shitty game, and may sell better where shitty games sell.
Jeff @ Oct 17th 2008 10:38PM
Team Fortress 2 is a cartoony game yet it sells well on the PC...
Kellydude025 @ Oct 17th 2008 4:38PM
how were the reviews on this anyways?
uh-oh polio @ Oct 17th 2008 4:48PM
Horrible.
dark_inchworm @ Oct 17th 2008 6:05PM
Right in the article: "...receiving an average Metacritic score of 54"
Need glasses?
Kellydude025 @ Oct 18th 2008 12:50AM
no...i just didn't read :)
Kyattsuai @ Oct 17th 2008 4:47PM
Why will the Wii version sell better, does it include Super Punch-Out!!? (That's the only reason I got Fight Night Round 2 for the Gamecube.)
tmacairjordan87 @ Oct 17th 2008 4:53PM
Because, as stated above, the wii's fanbase is borderline retarded and they don't know how to pick a good game out even if someone put one in their hands.
Monkey Thing?!!? @ Oct 17th 2008 5:03PM
As others said, it was relegated to a button masher, so waggle in this case might serve for a more fun experience. Equally, as i stated above, its a stylized game, and this works better on the Wii than on the other consoles
The wii userbase is attracted to fun, irregardless of "quality"
Beatz @ Oct 17th 2008 5:10PM
Aren't fun and quality the same thing? I mean I've never seen a quality game that was fun, or vice-versa.
Beatz @ Oct 17th 2008 5:11PM
Whoops. Meant to say quality game that wasn't fun*. Now I just look like a 'tard.
Mogster @ Oct 18th 2008 8:34AM
Don't worry, you don't look as retarded as tmac does!
Daniel @ Oct 17th 2008 4:48PM
Maybe they should have focused more on gameplay and less on celebrity avatars.
Popfrogs @ Oct 17th 2008 4:48PM
I thought the demo was crap. The face mapping alone took about 30 minutes (no joke). Gameplay was less than fun. All around, a crappy game.
meatee @ Oct 17th 2008 4:50PM
I think where they went wrong with the whole "modern day Punch-Out!!" idea is the gameplay mechanic. Sure, Punch-Out!! has some wacky characters, but what makes the game fun is the gameplay. This game ended up being nothing more than a button-masher, which is just garbage.
Cheesecake Jones @ Oct 17th 2008 4:57PM
"This just in! Crappy game sells terribly!"
This goes to show you that a bad demo and an unproven formula can sink a game before it's even released.
Monkey Thing?!!? @ Oct 17th 2008 5:00PM
Ouch. Face broken
dvnt @ Oct 17th 2008 5:04PM
It was a good concept. But poorly executed. The demo is what turned me off.
zaglis @ Oct 17th 2008 5:05PM
EA`s quality control?
-So um, what game are we going to cancel today? Promising FPS title that has millions of trailer views or crappy boxing game that nobody cares about?
-Lets go with crappy one. YAAY!
Pip @ Oct 17th 2008 5:10PM
I saw this game on clearance at Target the other day. I huge stack of them. I had to do a double take as I walk past them because the game just came out!
I played the demo and it wasn't fun at all. I don't know what they were thinking, anyone could have played this game earlier in its development and saw that it wasn't going anywhere.
Mr. Nosuch @ Oct 17th 2008 5:18PM
Facebreaker = Gamebroken.
Rollins @ Oct 17th 2008 5:24PM
I was wondering what was up when I saw this game on clearance at Target (I think). Now I know.
omac @ Oct 17th 2008 6:22PM
I was one of the few that bought Facebreaker...it lasted a week before I traded it in for Armored Core For Answer!
BIGFAT @ Oct 17th 2008 6:33PM
crappy game get crappy sales.
Finally this economy is working the way its supposed too.
Dante G @ Oct 17th 2008 7:47PM
I'm impressed by how fast anti wii posts get up voted to 3 hearts...
Monkey Thing?!!? @ Oct 17th 2008 9:49PM
You're a veteran of VGChartz, aren't you? I browse their forums sometimes
If so, yours is a much more pro-Nintendo environment, though its an environment that also sees the merits of PS360
Here its much less balanced in that regard. Shitting on Nintendo has been cool since E3. Proclaiming "I've sold my Wii" is as fast a track to 3 hearts as any other individual statement, unless its an aptly-placed Futurama reference.
halo 3 sucks. @ Oct 18th 2008 12:15AM
I've sold my Wii.
20 dollars says i wont get ranked down, or up. Nobody gives a flying penis.
Burnt Meatloaf @ Oct 18th 2008 11:44PM
That's because flying penises are in short supply.
Burnt Meatloaf @ Oct 18th 2008 11:45PM
And, no, I don't care if that's the correct plural form of the word or not.
hunter @ Oct 17th 2008 10:40PM
WHAT??? AN EA GAME THAT WAS ONLY AVAILABLE ON THE CONSOLES AND NOT ON THE EVIL PIRATE-STORM P.C. DIDN´T SELL????????????? how´s that possible!!!! if EA decided to leave the sports game for the consoles only!!! maybe people finally woke up and showed to ea that they only make GARBAGE, not original games but versions of the version of the old version of the old version.
well, let´s go back to wait for left 4 dead
sk8monroe81 @ Oct 19th 2008 1:19AM
dead space