Sat, Apr 17, 2010 | 18:48 BST
Red Steel 2 moves 50K copies in 12-days, according to NPD
According to NPD numbers for March, Wii-exclusive Red Steel 2 sold 50K copies since its March 23 release.
This isn’t too bad from where Ubisoft stands, as the game was only out a total of 12-days before the NPD cut-off on April 3.
“Considering that the NPD sales only accounted for 12 days on the store shelves and that NPD doesn’t include all retailers we are looking forward to a complete month of sales data to see where we stand,” a Ubisoft rep told Kotaku.
Earlier in the year, Ubisoft halved its sales expectations for the MotionPlus title from 1M units to 500K.
Reviews around the net were mixed for the game.
More through the links.
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Posted in: Action, Charts, Financials, Ubisoft, Wii
Tags: NPD March 2010, red steel 2, wmp
7 comments
#1
FeaturePreacher
17/04/10, 5:38 pm
It’s not surprising for what looks like a hardcore game to not do well on the Wii. Maybe with this title Ubisoft will finally learn to just stick with mini-game collections, fitness, cooking, and ladies dress-up games whenenver they think of making something for the Wii.
#2
Robo_1
17/04/10, 5:58 pm
I just finished it today actually. It’s excellent stuff, really. If you bought the Wii to see how motion controls could enhance traditional genres, then you’ve no excuse not to pick this up.
#3
cookiejar
17/04/10, 6:03 pm
Anyone reckon it would see a PS3 port when Move launches? I would of thought it might do fairly well with that.
#4
Erthazus
17/04/10, 6:07 pm
@3 Only as a PSN title maybe.
#5
dirigiblebill
17/04/10, 6:26 pm
An 81% on Metacritic is “mixed”, is it? :p
Great game, hope it continues to sell.
#6
Stephany Nunneley
17/04/10, 6:48 pm
@5 http://www.vg247.com/2010/03/29/ubisoft-red-steel-2-review-scores-mixed/
#7
dirigiblebill
17/04/10, 6:57 pm
Ahar
From the horse’s mouth.