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\u2019s Top 10 chart \u2013 indicative of an extremely weak month for software sales.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
With these sales figures, could Darksiders end up on the THQ chopping block? Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter chips in.<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s not write off the franchise too soon, but with a Metacritic score of 84, THQ was no doubt hoping for better numbers.<\/p>\n
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