NPD: Dead Space Extraction sold 9,000 copies in September

ahhh.. Dead Space Girl, Missed you :D

WTF is that dude saying about marketing? They were showing commercials of it for a straight week on Hulu, and I'm sure more than 9000 people watch Hulu and own a Wii. It just speaks to the Wii demographic.

I kind of think this article wouldn't have been posted if they didn't have such a brilliant idea for the header image.

I knew they should have called it "Dead Space Party"

I *literally* just watched this scene when I saw this article. Whoah.

I'm conflicted. I'm displeased a quality game isn't selling fast and well. I am pleased that EA is getting owned for playing the tired ass double standard game of third parties on Wii. Seriously, they do tv spots, movie theater promo ads, print, etc for Dead Space to get their new hopeful then franchise going and the sales showed it worked. Then the Wii game comes, a couple print ads, couple web ads, and NOTHING else. What the hell? Then they have the nerve like others to call it a 'testing the waters' game. Where the hell do they get off (and third party) playing this crap? I'm not saying put as huge of one they did for the multiconsole original, theater ads would be a bit much, but they should have done the TV spots again.

They did it to themselves simple as that, but ultimately all these M and T Wii games in the long haul make their money back and then profit some, even so called failures like MadWorld and HOTD Overkill as they did hundreds of thousands making profit but it took like 6months. Guarantee through Christmas maintaining the $50 tag they could rake in well with a few 100k in sales, then drop to $40 or $30 and let it roll hard into 2010.

So what it comes down to is people not wanting to pay full price for half a game and lack of marketing.

Or maybe it's the mindset that has plagued Nintendo since 1997 "If Nintendo didn't make it..."

Uggh, This is a really loong comment thread, but I'll just comment on Johnnynumber5:

"For whatever reason when it comes to the Wii stuff there is always an excuse. It's never as simple as just admitting that it sold poorly because Wii owners aren't interested in those type of games. There always has to be a reason assigned to why the game failed."

Hmm, tell that to the other "those type of games" on Wii -- i.e. 3rd party lightgun/on-rails horror titles:
Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles
HotD: 2 & 3
HotD: Overkill

Now if Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles sells poorly in the months following its 11/17 release, you might start to have a point. BUT, I doubt that's gonna happen. There's plenty of room for success for these kinda games. Even HotD: Overkill, which opened to US 1st mo. (actually only 18 days) sales of 45,000 (5x those of Deadspace) went on to sell about 400K world wide and "meet sales expectations" (Joystiq, VgChartz, Games Industry.biz for sources).

Go on about other people's strawman arguments, but your agrument that "these types of games" don't sell well on Wii is historically inaccurate itself.

I'd say this game got a slow start for several reason that have already been addressed:

1.) Poor Marketing -- as admitted in the source article above -- sure, some people here saw ads, others like myself didn't. Some crazy ladys face on a banner that I overlook on a gaming site I visit twice a day isn't gonna get me, or my more casual gaming (but horror-loving) wii-owning friends to by the game or understand it's appeal. A game has to not only have marketing, but *effective* marketing (see HoTD and RE), which this game does not.

2.) It's a $50 5 hour game from a new franchise. (I'm not saying that stopped me from buying it, but I got it in October, not the 4 or 5 days it was on sale in Sept.) and I can understand why there'd be those waiting for a pricedrop.

3.) The Fall Wii game glut. Yes, believe it or not, there are a lot of recently released "core" games vying for Wii-owners $. I waited for the TRU buy-2-get-one myself, and when I got Extraction, I also scooped up Metroid Prime Trilogy, The Conduit, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, A Boy and his Blob, Overlord Dark Legend, Little King's Story, Wii Sports Resort / Motion Plus 2 pack, and Mario & Luigi for the DS.

Despite getting all that, I left Beatles Rock Band, Guitar Hero Five, Phantom Brave, Spore Hero, and TMNT: Smash Up on the shelf.

Dead Space: Extraction is definitely a solid game, and I urge everyone on the edge to buy it. Thing is, i only realized that b/c I regularly follow hardcore gaming blogs and read reviews. Let's not pretend that even in the gaming community, this game got GI or EGM covers like the original Dead Space, or that it was hyped to all hell.

Developers won't ever get the message. All they see is a large install base.