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Dark Void due in 2010, 2 million sales targeted

By Tor Thorsen, GameSpotPosted Jul 30, 2009 12:32 pm PT

Capcom confirms its sci-fi PC, PS3, and 360 action game has slipped out of the increasingly sparse holiday season; publisher predicts game will go double-platinum its first year.

Dark Void has joined the 2009 Dropouts' Club. As part of an earnings report this morning, Capcom confirmed that the sci-fi actioner, first announced in October 2007 for a winter 2008 release, will not arrive until early 2010. It is now set to ship in North America and Europe for the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 during the January-March quarter, the last of its publisher's fiscal year.

Capcom fans expecting Dark Void for Christmas are also feeling throttle-happy right about now.

"Dark Void is moving into Capcom's fiscal Q4 in order to get the game out of the crowded fall game season and to allow the development team more time to polish and enhance the game experience," a rep told GameSpot. The company predicts that the move will help the game hit a first-year sales target of 2 million units worldwide on all platforms.

Dark Void is the first project from developer Airtight Games, home to several veterans of the shuttered FASA Studios (Crimson Skies). The third-person shooter will have players engage in fast-paced vertical combat (see video below) courtesy of in-game jetpacks. It sees mankind fighting The Watchers, an alien race banished by humanity to an alternate universe after its members developed superpowers. As outlined in GameSpot's recent hands-on preview from the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the game will see the Watchers return to extract their revenge.

Dark Void is the latest postponement of a triple-A title from a major publisher. Other recent delays from 2009 to 2010 include Sega's Bayonetta, Activision's Singularity, Ubisoft's Splinter Cell: Conviction and Red Steel 2, and Take-Two's Red Dead Redemption, Mafia II, and BioShock 2. However, the first quarter has proved a lucrative release window for Capcom in the past, with such hits as Resident Evil 5, Street Fighter IV, Lost Planet: Extreme Condition, and Resident Evil 4 all debuting during the January-March period.

101 Comments

  • abel_del_real

    Posted Aug 4, 2009 4:35 pm PT

    09' sucks but 10' will be AWSOME!

  • pakhair

    Posted Aug 2, 2009 11:39 pm PT

    More & more games r getting delayed, Just think for a that how many great games r releasing next year, We will also have a lot of announced titles, Next year will b a clutter of games for sure..........

  • grampaoldyoks

    Posted Aug 2, 2009 9:20 am PT

    I'm tired of this i hope it makes LESS than 50,000 sales for the whole year

  • lachie_d

    Posted Aug 2, 2009 5:57 am PT

    very lame, now all i have to look foward to is the new splinter cell...

  • Killingspree303

    Posted Aug 2, 2009 3:06 am PT

    Why does almost every developer keep pushing their game's release date til next year? It's just stupid. We want their games now!

  • masha2932

    Posted Aug 1, 2009 8:23 pm PT

    If all the developers keep postponing their games to next year jan-march then next year will be crowded as well.

  • 8smokes

    Posted Aug 1, 2009 7:49 am PT

    ...first announced in October 2007 for a winter 2008 release...

    Wow. Two years later, and then it releases? They must be spending a lot of time polishing the game. :rolls eyes: How could they ever think it was going to release in 2008? Anyway, the game looks good, and I don't even care about the release date. I'm going to be buying it anyway. This looks awesome!

  • thibbledorfP

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 5:59 pm PT

    Is this the game that started off as a tech demo, and then was converted to a game based on the potential they saw in the demo?

  • ldonyo

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 2:41 pm PT

    It's a good move on Capcom's part. The devs will have time to actually finish the game and the game won't get lost amid the Christmas hubbub.

  • Autolycus

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 12:37 pm PT

    can you say Battle Star Galacta?

  • pwnzord

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 11:36 am PT

    @thekey

    No but I can say Rocketeer 2010. Did you even read the headline?

  • thekey

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 11:20 am PT

    Can you say, Rocketeer 2009?

  • Halcalix

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 10:24 am PT

    Another delay!?! Do game developers want us all to be broke next year?

  • pilot_riaz

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 10:15 am PT

    Who are piloting the UFOs, humans or aliens? They looked human in the vid, how did humans get hold of UFOs?

  • MrPush

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 9:46 am PT

    InfectX Posted Jul 31, 2009 8:18 am PT Am I the only one who thinks this game looks totally uninteresting?
    -----------------------

    I think so, seeing how your checking up on the game Im sure this is not the first time you seen it but your tripping, this s@#% looks off the chain, esp. the hijacking ufo part I think you might need to go make your own games or something better

  • thenephariouson

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 8:20 am PT

    Im interested solely because of the jetpack aspect, which simply adds an extra dimension to the gameplay dynamic, as oppsed to simple, run-cover-gun etc.

  • InfectX

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 8:18 am PT

    Am I the only one who thinks this game looks totally uninteresting?

  • The_Owner

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 7:15 am PT

    What!? Nooo! This is the first game in months that I've pre-ordered. Oh well.

  • thekey

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 6:58 am PT

    As long as this delay is worth it, I'm all for it.

  • todsnet

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 5:54 am PT

    this better not turn into a forever game like the Duke. I already have it reserved too. That just means I can go reserve another game for September. Yay!!

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