Jason VandenBerghe, Ubisoft creative director, stated that Red Steel 2 sold 270,000 units worldwide. While that is a not a very good number for the game, it is good for VGChartz as it has it at 267,334 worldwide. Too bad for Red Steel 2, but congratulations to ioi and the team. Source.

wouldn't 270k be shipped?

Btw that's a good number.. imo

i am sure the would be more then 3000 games sitting on store shelves. That being said pretty good tracking

Wouldnt the 270k be shipped?

So we have it overtracked here slightly is my guess.

As for the 270k, on a 73 Million userbase. No comment.

I <3 Jason Vandenberghe.

From the article, it seems he blames the poor sales on gamers being too damn lazy to stand up. That might be a factor, but I don't think there's any one reason why RS2 fizzled.

You think the shoddy quality of the first game hindered sales of the sequel?

Ouch...Maybe a PSMove/Kinect Port is in line?

Lack of multiplayer was probably a bigger factor.

They will need something to break even on the game. 

I have to agree with poor reception of the first one. This game didn't exactly have much of  a brand name to lean on to begin with, let alone a BAD one. Better shooters came out after and RS1 was swept under the rug, people moved on.