We knew that THQ considered de Blob a sales success, but before now we didn't have a worldwide sales figure to match to the idea of "success". Now we do: 700,000 copies worldwide, and each sold at the game's original price point of $49.99. It's enough to have THQ banking on Wii in 2009 as part of a "three prong" strategy designed to keep the company from hemorrhaging any more money or jobs.
[THQ CEO Brian] Farrell described a "three-prong" Wii strategy that includes the publishing of high production value, "Nintendo-esque" games like de Blob, value titles like Big Beach Sports, which has sold over 1.3 million units, and licensed titles such as those found in the publisher's Nickelodeon portfolio.
Or, basically: good games, cheap crap, and licensed crap. Well, I guess that's one-third less crap than most publishers are managing on Wii, so I'll consider this a partial victory.
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