Nintendo DS News | Spectrobes Proves Massive Hit for Disney

By Adam Riley 22.04.2007 11

When Disney announced that its gaming division would be bringing a brand new franchise to the Nintendo DS and then attempting to build something much bigger around that, it seemed like a big risk. But Spectrobes has already proved a massive success around the world.

Developed by veteran Japanese developer Jupiter Corporation, a team that has worked with Nintendo on the likes of the Pok

Box art for Spectrobes
Developer

Jupiter Corp

Publisher

Buena Vista

Genre

Real Time RPG

Players

1

C3 Score

Rated $score out of 10  n/a

Reader Score

Rated $score out of 10  9/10 (8 Votes)

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tiamat1990 is offline. tiamat1990 22.04.2007#1

Pokemon wasn't out before...till now. I doubt Spectrobes will do as well.

 
Gibdo is offline. Gibdo 22.04.2007#2

True. I was gonna buy this game then realised I could just import Pokemon now instead... my girlfriend got it though, so I know at some point I will Smilie

 
Jump_button is offline. Jump_button 22.04.2007#3

<_< oh come on every one cant see it a copy of pokemon, new franchise my ass >_< and to try and make it look anime like god they cant be real about this who idea was this lol

( Edited on 22.04.2007 09:29 by Jump_button )

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jesusraz is offline. jesusraz 22.04.2007#4

Disney has done very well with this, I reckon (despite it failing in Japan). The US and European sales alone will have lifted it up...and that's definitely been helped by the clever use of the Wi-Fi Connection and continued promotional work.

Spectrobes 2 is a no-brainer...the question is whether this will continue to remain a Nintendo exclusive and eventually come to Wii.

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The Croft is offline. The Croft 22.04.2007#5

700,000k already, fuck me.


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jesusraz is offline. jesusraz 22.04.2007#6

It managed 165,000 in the US alone during the couple of weeks in March it was on the shelves for. Not bad going...I also wonder how the release of Pok

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WP-Final is offline. WP-Final 22.04.2007#7

Nintendo had this game up on the Stars Catalogue the other day for 5000 stars. Not worth my stars though. Saving them for Wii points.Smilie

 
Balladeer is offline. Balladeer 22.04.2007#8

It deserves a bit of attention, being a Disney game which isn't a film spin-off and therefore isn't automatically on the same amusement level as poking excrement with a stick. Not that much though - there were still problems with it, although different ones from the [i]Pok


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Metroid is offline. Metroid 22.04.2007#9

Smilie wow I didn't expect this game to sell this well, very impressed!


 
Zapp is offline. Zapp 22.04.2007#10

Metroid said:
Smilie wow I didnt expect this game to sell this well, very impressed!

yeah same here, this is a surprise... i dont think alot of people expected this game to sell very well!

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Buffy the Fanboy Slayer 23.04.2007#11

I have to admit that it looks very tempting. I really liked the videos that came on an NGamer disc (promotional I assume - 3 part). I am very likely to get it.

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