Sat, Jan 16, 2010 | 22:28 GMT
Ubisoft cuts Red Steel 2 sales predictions in half
Ubisoft has revealed that its lowered sales expectations for its MotionPlus game Red Steel 2 by half.
Original sales expectation were set at 1 million, now those expectations have been lowered to 500K.
“For Avatar we said 2.5 million units and our expectations were more in the 3.5-4 million [region],”stated Ubisoft CEO, Yves Guillemot in a conference call to investors.
“On Red Steel we decided, in our expectations, to divide the quantity by two and previously we had around a million.”
With the game reportedly 95 percent complete, Ubisoft aren’t necessarily cutting sales expectation because of its lack of quality, according to TotalVideogames (via GoNintendo). Instead, it may reflect the poor performance of other core titles on the Wii.
Earlier this month, Capcom France’s Antoine Seux stated that the company was very disappointed with sales of RE:The Darkside Chronicles, and felt that Wii users had “moved on” from hardcore games. Because of this, he said, publishers would provide less support to such titles on the console in 2010.
Capcom later commented that it would remain “committed” to multiple platform titles.
SEGA has also said that its “done with developing mature Wii titles”.
6 comments
#1
Tonka
17/01/10, 5:03 am
I think he is being overly pessimistic. I recon it could do a million. As for Avatar… it’s a movie license aimed at “teh hardcore”. You can’t fool them like you fool little kiddies.
#2
Gekidami
17/01/10, 6:48 am
The Wii really is shit, isnt it?
#3
Dannybuoy
17/01/10, 8:40 am
Stop the presses; core wii games in lower than expected sales shocker!
there seems to be little or no point in making core games for the wii. It doesn’t exactly seem like a great investment opportunity for devs. I guess if they tagged Mario to it it might sell. Mario; And the Red Steel Pipe could shift a few more units
#4
Gekidami
17/01/10, 8:44 am
I can imagine the first one did some decent sales being a launch title so maybe that’ll help the sequel. Problem is the first one was terrible.
#5
Bulk Slash
17/01/10, 4:40 pm
It seems like ages since the first one came out and it wasn’t supposed to be very good anyway. I’m not surprised they don’t see a lot of anticipation for the title.
#6
Blerk
18/01/10, 8:50 am
The first one did well purely because it was a more ‘adult’ title in a not-very-adult launch window. If they’d pushed a sequel out fairly quickly it would probably have done quite well, but after all this time I suspect they know that their potential audience has pretty much evaporated. I’m thinking 500k is probably still hugely optimistic.