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EA's Facebreaker falls in first round, sells 52k units

by Alexander Sliwinski on Oct 17th 2008 4:30PM

EA Sport's Freestyle brand, meant for a "more casual sports gaming audience," suffered a beating as its first title, Facebreaker, sold 52,000 units in September. The game's over-the-top nature, originally giving the impression of being a modern day Punch-Out!!, apparently didn't click with consumers ... or critics, receiving an average Metacritic score of 54.

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.

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Tags: ea, ea-sports, ea-sports-freestyle, Electronic-Arts, facebreaker, freestyle, PS3, Wii, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (36)

Well, there must still be a market for fighting games. I guess they just didn't appreciate this.

I think there is a market for fighting games that don't suck. Not so much for fighting games that do suck...like Facebreaker.

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.

The game was just flat-out ugly.

And I'm not talking about the graphics, either.

"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.

Facebreaker is a cartoony game, and may sell better where cartoony games sell.

"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.

Team Fortress 2 is a cartoony game yet it sells well on the PC...

how were the reviews on this anyways?

Horrible.

Right in the article: "...receiving an average Metacritic score of 54"

Need glasses?

no...i just didn't read :)

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.)

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.

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"

Aren't fun and quality the same thing? I mean I've never seen a quality game that was fun, or vice-versa.

Whoops. Meant to say quality game that wasn't fun*. Now I just look like a 'tard.

Don't worry, you don't look as retarded as tmac does!

Maybe they should have focused more on gameplay and less on celebrity avatars.

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.

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.

"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.

Ouch. Face broken

It was a good concept. But poorly executed. The demo is what turned me off.

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!

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.

Facebreaker = Gamebroken.

I was wondering what was up when I saw this game on clearance at Target (I think). Now I know.

I was one of the few that bought Facebreaker...it lasted a week before I traded it in for Armored Core For Answer!

I'm impressed by how fast anti wii posts get up voted to 3 hearts...

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.

I've sold my Wii.

20 dollars says i wont get ranked down, or up. Nobody gives a flying penis.

That's because flying penises are in short supply.

And, no, I don't care if that's the correct plural form of the word or not.

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

dead space

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