Ubisoft Reports $117M Loss On Sales Drops, Catalog Discounting

[jammy2211]

NJ5 said:

jammy2211 said:

Assassin's Creed 2 is exceeding expectations, why are people doubting it's profitability? Unless Ubisoft expected it to lose money 0_o.

To be clear, my point is that it could not make a great profit depending on how sales end up. Sequels often sell less than their predecessors despite being more frontloaded.

 

On the other hand, Frontloaded games tend to be more profitable as they're selling more copies at a higher price.

 They'd only make a sequel if the original made plenty of money; and if that sequel is exceeding expectations you'd assume it's making more money then the original :/.