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Wall-E a Sales Straggler

Disney Pixar's Wall-E drummed up box office success and big critical acclaim, but the THQ-published game has been struggling at retail.

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pixelsword6485d ago (Edited 6485d ago )

... all the way back to the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street games for the original Nintendo.

...Look up angry videogame Nerd's commentary on the games on youtube.

Back to the future
http://uk.youtube.com/watch...

Nightmare on Elm Street
http://uk.youtube.com/watch...

Friday the 13th
http://uk.youtube.com/watch...

and probably more. When I see a movie-based game and THQ, I run. Fast.

RadientFlux6485d ago

good, maybe it show THQ that they should either spend more time on the title or pay to have more people work on movie-based games

maggotmx6484d ago

yeah no sh*t man the version of the demo i DLed didnt even had sound in game haha it was weird, menu sound effects and cutscenes worked just not in game O.o

Pr3-M3d_G4M3R6484d ago

the demo was absolute garbage

Majors6485d ago

I'm not suprised its not selling coz its crap.. as with all other movie based games. Infact i cant name a single movie based game that is actually any good. They seem to bash out games to cash in on the big films and people are just not falling for it no more.

Smacktard6485d ago (Edited 6485d ago )

Uh... Goldeneye? Also, the King Kong game was pretty awesome. The LotR games were also pretty good, although short. And apparently Kung Fu Panda was a good children's game.

But those are only a few gems amongst a pit of trash. Most movie based games suck, because nobody dares to be creative with them, or spend time actually working on them. They just try to get them out as fast as possible in the hopes that people will eat it up. I'm GLAD the Wall-E game is doing worse than expected. Hopefully it'll send them a signal.

LPpatriot456484d ago

...Escape from Butcher Bay is a HUGE exception....

Otherwise tho, your right. These companies should start taking their videogame counterparts seriously if they really want to make bank.

kapedkrusader6485d ago

...why games made in a hurry with very little money invested cost the same $60 as a game like MGS4 that cost millions more and accrued much more hours of work...this goes for all three consoles.

Drekken6485d ago

Money hungry companies. Not that there has been a good game movie release along side with its movie release, but Beowulf was like $20 when it came out.

Ron Zook6485d ago

Ron Zook played the demo of this game and it was the biggest sack of crap ever to grace Ron Zooks PS3.

1) PS1 graphics
2) Terrible gameplay
3) Incredibly stupid gameplay (find vending machine part, throw cubes at crap, repeat)
4) Awful awful sound. Worse than SNES sound

Overall if Ron Zook ever saw this game on the shelves of any store Ron Zook goes to, Ron Zook would immedeatly throw it on the ground and piss on it. Ron Zook thinks you should too, to stop ALL THESE BAD MOVIE GAMES!

Covenant6484d ago

Bob Dole would like his third person mode of speech back. :)

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PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for February

The PlayStation Plus Game Catalog lineup for February includes:

🕷️ Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
🏎️ Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown
🐲 Monster Hunter Stories
🐉 Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin
🐺 Neva
🚲 Season: A Letter to the Future
⚔️ Echoes of the End: Enhanced Edition
🍛 Venba
🏉 Rugby 25

And joining the Classics Catalogue:

🤖 Disney•Pixar Wall-E (PS2)

All of these will be available to play 17 February

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maximusprime_77d ago

Solid line up.

I knew TDU SC eventually come on PS Plus. Glad I cancelled preorder for Astro or instead.
I heard TDU SC was a mess at launch. Did it improve? I'm going to give it a try

Grayson07677d ago

This is unrelated to the actual post, but can anyone tell me what happened to this site? It used to be the best place to get news, but now it seems like barely any big news comes through, there's little discussion, and it seems to be dying overall. I know there was awhile where I couldn't access the site, but that's been taken care of for a long time. What happened?

Nyxus77d ago

There are a lot of technical issues and it doesn't seem there are many people left who approve stories, so they take a long time to get approved, if they get approved at all.

Eonjay77d ago

Money. It was sold to someone who wanted to maximize the ad revenue while investing nothing into the actual site. Money killed it.

lodossrage77d ago (Edited 77d ago )

I'll add to what Nyxus and Eonjay said

Another reason is trolls are allowed to run rampant. So the few times discussions might happen, they get derailed fast.
There's also the fact that they're more strict on what gets approved now compared to what they were back in the day.

1nsomniac76d ago

Site’s been slowly turning to garbage over the past 5 years. It’s currently almost unusable. Full of utter shit adverts covering everything. You cant even access your profile notifications and it’s been like that for what must be over a year now. It really has become an amateur shit show here.

maximusprime_76d ago

True, I tried opening "my submission" and it opened someone else's list of submissions...

Chocoburger76d ago

An endless amount of rude trolls, along with terrible and inconsistent moderation. I once got banned for saying S***, but then there are other people who can drop F-bombs and not get banned. Mods also punish the wrong people often, just stupidity all around. I stopped submitting stories and I rarely comment these days due to the lack of proper moderation.

DEKUX1276d ago

Always thought this was just a Sony pony troll site lol. But it used to be nuts. I used to check this site every day same as siliconera. I do still check here and there but yeah ain’t what it used to be

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Eonjay77d ago (Edited 77d ago )

Love the article description!

Also someone had the foresight to put Neva on there... and monter hunter Stories. Solid additions all around.

MrBaskerville76d ago

They had a strong classic library last year, I don't hope they plan to double down on disney releases again this year, like they've done before.

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Disney/Pixar’s Wall*E - A Refreshing Use of a License

Licensed games are all rubbish, right? Well, THQ's take on Disney/Pixar’s Wall*E would like to argue that point.

gamerz1017d ago

Took me a min to figure out this is a review of a 2008 game. I love Wall*E and this looks interesting so added it to my Steam wishlist. Thanks!

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A Look Back at Disney Games on PlayStation Handhelds

VGChartz's Adam Cartwright: "There are few brands out there that have anything like the appeal and recognition of Disney. Thanks to decades of beautiful and critically acclaimed animated films, the company is a household name that has expanded beyond just movies to include a variety of other ventures, including videogames. Disney has also grown its lineup considerably in recent years by acquiring Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars (although for the purposes of this article, I’ll only be covering Disney/Pixar output).

Thanks to their broad audience, Disney games usually show up on every viable platform out there, meaning that despite the brand’s affinity with Nintendo’s younger-skewing audience, both the PSP and Vita received a number of titles throughout their lives. Some of this was through Disney's own developer/publisher (Disney Interactive Studios), but the firm also licensed out its IPs for other companies to try their hand at – with somewhat mixed results."

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