| VanceIX said: No one knows why Ubisoft decided to bundle the games with the already discounted Xbox One for so long, but there is a good chance it was due to fears of losing sales. Also, there was an absolutely massive decrease in sales for Unity compared to Black Flag the year before. Black Flag alone had 10 million sales compared to 10 million combined sales for Rogue and Unity in the same period of time, and the Unity sales include the sales it got by being bundled with almost every Xbox One unit sold over the holdiays (1-2 million from just that, easily). |
Losing sales when the franchise regularly sells over 8 million copies for every recent installments ? Yeah right ...
If anything there's more reasons to believe that it's Microsoft who cut a deal with Ubisoft in order to increase the sales of the Xbox One since it was their last-ditch effort to gain some wind ...
@Bold That is a lie going by the data we have here ... AC4 sold a total of 7 million copies before 2014 and by comparison ACU+ACR sold around 6.5 million copies so that's hardly a cause for concern plus it wasn't until mid 2014 that AC4 was able to reach 10 million copies.
What more is that AC4 for the Xbox One was barely able to pull off a total of 1 million units last holiday and not of all of it was contributed to bundling since it was able to sell 50K just before the bundle hit so even if we assume that a large portion attributed to 70% that's far off from your 1-2 million range ...
This is all besides the point ...
