Darksiders II US sales numbers are disappointing

The NPD has reported that Darksiders US sales for August are a somewhat disappointing 247,000. Perhaps even more surprising is that the game placed first in NPD’s Top 10 chart – indicative of an extremely weak month for software sales.

The low figures must be somewhat of a let-down for THQ, who have remodelled their strategy to focus only on their bigger name games and titles with the most potential.

With these sales figures, could Darksiders end up on the THQ chopping block? Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter chips in.

“I think that the sales are below what they had hoped for. I presume it sold around 500,000 globally in the first two weeks (the NPD cutoff was Aug 25), so it’s probably over 1 million now, but my understanding is that breakeven is greater than 2 million units, so it’s not likely to get much higher than that. We should probably give it another month and see if it’s tracking better.”

Let’s not write off the franchise too soon, but with a Metacritic score of 84, THQ was no doubt hoping for better numbers.