It looks like 5th Cell's Scribblenauts for the Nintendo DS isn't just entertaining us media types and "core" crowd on the toilet. Earlier this afternoon, publisher Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced that the colorful, uh, "word" game has sold over one million units and "became on of the hottest games of the holiday season."
Speaking via the press release, WBIE present Martin Tremblay called Scribblenauts a "strong original brand," and added that WBIE looks "forward to bringing consumers more quality gaming experiences as part of our portfolio game strategy." Good. A portfolio gaming strategy that focused on delivering bad games wouldn't make us happy campers, or at least inclined to give WBIE's stuff a spin on the toilet (or the bus or wherever).
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6:00 PM on 02.03.2010
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So we get a sequel with d-Pad controls, yeah?
I still have my rooster hat!
The game came out on September 15th, so that's like less than 5 months ago. You think that's awhile?
Took a while? Some games are lucky just to break 500k. As far as I'm concerned, Scribblenauts did a lot better than I thought it would have, considering the mixed reviews.
Anyway, I hope this success leads to a much improved sequel. Scribblenauts had a lot of potential, it just needed its gameplay elements to be implemented better.
but that just makes the marketers of 5th Cell look like douchebags giving a bad image to the company too.
It didn't have a strong marketing push. Blame all the video game enthusiasts/writers who hyped it to the high heavens at E3. That's the reason why so many people jumped on the game so early.
For what it is, it's solid. It has definite problems, but the audience for this game (the little'uns and the non-gamers) absolutely love it. My young cousins played around in the "sandbox" mode for hours, and a non-gaming lady friend of mine who has never played a single video game for more than 5 minutes at a time toyed around with the game for close to an hour non-stop. That's something.
Glad something as oddball as this sold a million. But it doesn't change the fact that its controls are broken and the game gets old soon.