Wed, Feb 03, 2010 | 22:00 GMT
THQ: Darksiders shipped 1.2M units its first four weeks
THQ announced in its Q3 financial release this evening that Darksiders shipped approximately 1.2 million units during its first four weeks.
It also revealed that the title had achieved a Metacritic rating of 83.
In addition, the press release stated that THQ will concentrate on the following titles for Q4 of its fiscal year 2010, which ends on March 31.
- Darksiders
- Metro 2033
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Chaos Rising
THQ also announced the realignment of two of its development studios that will now focus on the creation of games for digital distribution.
More on all this once the call starts.
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Tags: darksiders, thq q3 financials 2010
10 comments
#1
RGW1982
03/02/10, 10:01 pm
Shipped… What About Sold?
I Guessed A Bit Under 1,000,000
#2
Michael O’Connor
03/02/10, 10:01 pm
And this was “below expectations”?
Seriously?
#3
Psychotext
03/02/10, 10:06 pm
THQ are mad as badgers. Always have been.
#4
Razor
03/02/10, 10:08 pm
I saw a dead badger today.
Anyway.
#5
onlineatron
03/02/10, 10:31 pm
@2
Well if they expected to sell shipped numbers… then I can definitly see how sales could be ‘below expectations’
#6
The Hindle
03/02/10, 10:35 pm
I think we can expect to get a sequel now
#7
Neolucifer
03/02/10, 10:36 pm
@Michael O’Connor
be careful , next thing you know someone will post you something about regis fils-aimé randomly claiming that (wii) games need to sell more to be profitable .
And they’ll act as if most game of the genre , besides God of war 2 do better within their launch weeks
#8
loki
03/02/10, 11:16 pm
Good game for right platform, good sales well done!!
#9
COG287PR
04/02/10, 2:29 am
Darksiders was great it should have sold more than that
#10
Blerk
04/02/10, 8:53 am
That doesn’t sound bad at all to me. Sometimes I wonder what analysts expect.