Speaking at the UBS Annual Global Media Conference, Ubisoft CFO, Alain Martinez expected Prince Of Persia to sell around 3 million units. He then warned that it is still too early to make a definite projection on overall sales of the game.
The latest Prince Of Persia has been welcomed with overall positive reviews, but Martinez believes that Ubisoft products have frequently not seen as strong a correlation between sales and ratings as the company has predicted.
"To be honest, when Assassin's Creed launched and got 82 percent, we were desperate, and we thought we were going to die," he recalled. But the game ended up being a runaway hit, exceeding five million units by some reports.
"If you look at our first Prince of Persia [Sands of Time], we thought it was going to do great," he added, "[but] it did two million, so we were kind of disappointed."
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Ubisfot CFO Suggests No Relation Between Ratings And Sales
well gee, considering Ubi's track record with reviews it doesn't surprise me.GRAW for example, the PC one got rave reviews for the most part, and high marks.but the game was bug ridden, glitchy, graphically poor and required much from the system it didn't need, and the AI... god aweful, it made players respect the original GR games even more!the reviews were in no way indicative of the game itself, as they nary mentioned word of the inumerable game killing problems that the title had, but only highlighted few, and mostly false, high points to the game.IMHO i wouldn't doubt theres exchange of cash going to the reviewers from Ubi, as their games seem to get high marks even for shoddy titles.i can't say much for PoP as i haven't gotten it yet, but it has been the case for their PC titles of late. Console ones seem to be pretty good though, despite the reviews are still "too" high in mark for whats essentially an expansion pack (GRAW 2 and R6V2 anyone?) sold at full price.
Ubisfot CFO Suggests No Relation Between Ratings And Sales
In other words, Ubisoft believes they can just make sh*tty games and still manage to sell millions of copies because sales have nothing to do with the quality/rating of the game... Ubisoft, are you smoking week or crack? I'd love to know.
Ubisfot CFO Suggests No Relation Between Ratings And Sales
This basically shows how susceptible the public are to nice looking tv adverts. Have a good ad campaign for your game and it will sell regardless of the games overall quality. Why do you think EA have had the gaming market pretty much nailed down over the past decade or more...consistently fantastic games? no. Huge ad campaigns? yes!
Ubisfot CFO Suggests No Relation Between Ratings And Sales
No anon@1.52 it shows that reviews have nothing to do with the quality of a game. Fallou3 has gotten perfect scores from every major reviewer going, it's still a bugfest (some showstopping) and remains unpatched after seven weeks.
Ubisfot CFO Suggests No Relation Between Ratings And Sales
Ubisfot.Nice one MG.
Ubisfot CFO Suggests No Relation Between Ratings And Sales
Murton must be an idiot or a n****r. Fallout3 has +90% user average at ign and universal acclaim user review average at metacritic. murton, before you claim that all of the millions of satisfied gamers that play Fallout3 experience bugs and glitches, delete the gayporn off of your pc--it might run better.
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