Neither Child of Eden Nor Shadows of the Damned Had a Big June

Yesterday's release of the NPD figures for June featured a distinct lack of two of the month's most original titles, Child of Eden and Shadows of the Damned. Rockstar's L.A. Noire was unsurprisingly still at the top of the charts, followed by Duke Nukem Forever -- by many accounts a bad game that perhaps benefited from all of the negative coverage. But where were Ubisoft and EA's original titles? As it turns out, neither was anywhere close to ranking inside the top ten.

Child of Eden, the spiritual successor to Rez, managed to sell 34,000 copies, good enough to rank it as the 83rd best seller in June, the NPD Group revealed to Joystiq. To be fair, it was available only on Xbox 360 and came out halfway through the month. Hopefully the PS3 release and positive word of mouth will help it to sell well as time goes on as it is, in my estimation, a terrific game.

Shadows of the Damned, the collaboration between Goichi "Suda51" Suda and Shinji Mikami, faired even more poorly, selling 24,000 copies total on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It had even less time on store shelves than Child of Eden, although its problem may have been a lack of marketing -- its release was met with more than a few, "Wait, that's out?" comments, which is never a good sign.

Source: http://www.1up.com/news/neither-child-of-eden-shadows-of-the-damned-had-big-june

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