Ubisoft Cuts Sales Projections In Half For Red Steel 2.

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Kennyheart said:

Ubisoft projects sales of 500,000 for Red Steel 2 as the game prepares for launch in March of this year.

Ubisoft has set low sales expectations for its MotionPlus infused Wii game, Red Steel 2, by stating that initial expectations of 1 million sales for the title have now been cut in half to a meagre 500,000 units as the game prepares for launch in March.

During a financial conference call earlier this week, Ubisoft's CEO, Yves Guillemot fielded a question on Avatar sales and expectations for Red Steel 2 with the following response: "For Avatar we said 2.5 million units and our expectations were more in the 3.5-4 million [region].  On Red Steel we decided, in our expectations, to divide the quantity by two and previously we had around a million."

Despite the fact that these sales expectations are low, they aren't necessarily representative of Red Steel 2's quality. Ubisoft may simply be accounting for the poor performance of other core titles on the Wii (e.g. MadWorld, The Conduit, and Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles), as well as a 50% drop-off in Ubisoft's own casual market during the current financial year.

http://www.totalvideogames.com/Red-Steel-2/news/Ubisoft-Cuts-Sales-Projections-In-Half-For-Red-Steel-2-14904.html

arent " NECESSARILY" .. SO MAYBE PROBABLY?waaay to kill your own product ubisoft!

Why Ubisoft ignores Modern warfare reflex sales??? the only non niche/side genre/plain crappy game that is rocking the wii this season? Is it because....

Activision is hiding the numbers (by not moaning like capcom) so they can gobble all the market for themselves? Excellent move Guillemot!

But i think 500k is still a succesful head start, and , im afraid it will perform better than that, just because ,if the game is good people like me ,will buy it.