Looks like Ubisoft hasn’t had a great couple of months, either. The France-based publisher reported today a 52 percent decline in sales for the six months that ended on September 30 compared to the same period last year. (Fiscal years tend to begin in March.) A 52 percent drop translates to €166 million, or around $246 million.
Why the sharp decline? It’s not too hard to figure out, really: what big game has Ubisoft published from March to September. Exactly. The company’s entire year will live and die by how well Assassin’s Creed II does. If it’s a hit, then everything’s A-OK. If it’s a stinker, then Ubisoft’s stockholders will be reasonably upset.
Ubisoft blames soft sales for its games on the Nintendo DS, and soft sales for its older titles. Games it wants you to look out for: the new Splinter Cell (that game is still around? I tapped out after the first one~!), Red Steel 2 and R.U.S.E.
Yeah, they’ve bet the house on Assassin’s Creed II, all right.
We’ll have to see how assassins creed 2 turns out.
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Call of Jaurez: Bound in Blood kept those sales from being even worse.
Maybe they could try finishing/supporting a game once in a while.
The game looks great. So far so good. Ubi has done everything to make it a good one. Wish them get good numbers when it comes out. AC2 is a must buy for me.
when you see the new splinter cell you will kick yourself for not knowing about it.