Sales of Star Wars: Outlaws, Which „Fell Short of Ubisoft’s Expectations,” Could Mean One Million Copies Sold Within a Month After Release
Tom Henderson revealed the alleged sales results of Star Wars: Outlaws. These reportedly had a direct impact on the decision to return Ubisoft's games to the Steam platform when they were released.
Star Wars: Outlaws is definitely not a game that Ubisoft executives will look back on with a smile. We recently learned that it did not meet the company's expectations, and shortly after the studio announced a plan to improve it. Unfortunately, the sales figures were not disclosed, but Tom Henderson, a journalist from Insider Gaming, managed to obtain this information. However, it should be noted that this is an unconfirmed info.
Star Wars: Outlaws Sales
As we read in the article published yesterday, Star Wars: Outlaws was supposed to reach the million-copy mark only now, a month after its premiere. It is not known exactly what result Ubisoft expected, but it was certainly a larger number. Let's remember that we're talking about a AAA game here with the added support of the huge Star Wars brand.
To further illustrate to you why this result "did not meet Ubisoft's expectations", it is worth mentioning the sales of other games from this segment this year:
- Dragon's Dogma 2 – 2.62 million copies sold in 9 days;
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree – 5 million copies in a week;
- Black Myth: Wukong – 10 million copies in 3 days.
In addition, the poor result of Star Wars: Outlaws was supposed to have a direct impact on the decision to return to selling the company's games on Steam upon their debut. Interestingly, Henderson mentions that all of Ubisoft's devteams have been trying to push for this change for many years.
Will the French company learn from this and get back on its feet? We will probably find out about this during the premiere of Assassin’s Creed: Shadows, the alleged reasons for the delay of which have also been revealed.
