Tue, May 18, 2010 | 20:29 BST
Ubisoft: Assassin’s Creed II moves close to 9 million units
Ubisoft has announced via its financial results today that Assassin’s Creed II has moved almost 9 million units worldwide.
Not bad at all.
On top of that, Splinter Cell: Conviction has moved 1.8 million units.
The company also reports that its full-year 2009-10 sales results for the full year came in at €871M, compared to €1,058M YoY which is a 17.7 percent loss.
Sales for the fourth quarter came to €210M, which is up 1.9 percent compared to €206 million YoY.
“The global economic crisis had a pronounced impact on the video game industry in 2009, which contracted by nearly 10 percent year-on-year,” wrote CEO Yves Guillemot.
“Ubisoft’s sales were hit particularly hard, falling 18 percent over the full year despite a stabilization in the second half of the year, when figures came in on a par with the corresponding period of 2008-09.
“This overall contraction in sales, combined with additional write-downs recorded for games already launched as well as for upcoming releases, led to a 60M€ operating loss.”
On the Wii front for the company, Just Dance sold around 3M units and Red Steel 2 sales were in line with recently revised forecasts.
Get the full thing through a lovely PDF file here.
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Posted in: Financials, Hot, Retail, Trade, Ubisoft
Tags: assassin's creed 2, ubbisoft 2009-10 full-year financials
9 comments
#1
The Hindle
18/05/10, 5:52 pm
Thats good Ubisoft now you have no excuse whatsoever to not do Beyond good and evil 2, reveal it at E3!!
#2
Erthazus
18/05/10, 5:53 pm
@1 YES. Do it. NOW.
Assasins Creed 2 was a very good experience except it was a little bit too repetitive in the end.
#3
Gheritt White
18/05/10, 6:43 pm
YES! I win my £20 bet!
#4
Monk
18/05/10, 6:49 pm
well, that something unexpected.
#5
justiceblob
18/05/10, 7:05 pm
Thats 1 million more than the original… and all those vast improvements deserve it. I liked the original, but this was really addictive for me.
#6
Maximum Unreal
18/05/10, 7:25 pm
How mach sales are from PC version
#7
endgame
18/05/10, 9:16 pm
they will definitely say “low, because of piracy”.
#8
AliTheBrit19
18/05/10, 10:38 pm
Deserves every sale, Incredible game.
#9
Blerk
19/05/10, 8:36 am
Where’s that ‘Game of the Year’ version, Ubi?