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Prince of Persia ships 2.2m, Far Cry 2 3m
Prince of Persia ships 2.2m, Far Cry 2 3m
MCV - January 23, 2008
Submitted by deftangel (291) at 9:09AM PST on January 23, 2009
Along with its financial results and confirmation of a new outing for Assassin’s Creed, Ubisoft has also confirmed that its next-gen sandbox shooter Far Cry has now sold 2.9m copies worldwide.
In addition, Shaun White Snowboarding has sold 2.3m copies and can claim the crown of being the second best-selling sports titles in North America in 2008.
The latest iteration of the firm’s Prince of Persia franchise has also sold well, notching 2.2m sales
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1apujanata posted on Prince of Persia (Xbox 360) at 10:06PM PST on January 24, 2009. RE: Prince of Persia ships 2.2m, Far Cry 2 3m@vGInfidel,
I have to apologize : For whatever reason, I thought you are talking about PoP PC version (probably because this article is posted as PoP article), even though you are referring to Far Cry 2.
My neck to neck comment was for PoP X360 vs PS3, not Far Cry 2 X360 vs PS3. My bad.[ Oracle ] [ Level 30 ] [ Rank: 14935 ]bids
1apujanata posted on Prince of Persia (Xbox 360) at 9:59PM PST on January 24, 2009. RE: Prince of Persia ships 2.2m, Far Cry 2 3m@vGInfidel,
Here is the article. Go to the prince of persia parts (subtitled "Big Names, smaller sales", and read the relevant text :
"The new entry in Ubisoft's Prince of Persia series also failed to chart after its launch in early December. Sales of the console versions -- on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 -- totaled only 483,000 copies. (PC version physical and digital sales, as with Tomb Raider, were not tracked in this set of reports.)
However, we can also say more about Prince of Persia and how well it sold on the two consoles. In particular, Prince of Persia was the fourth best-selling PS3 game in December, between LittleBigPlanet at number 3 and Resistance 2 at number 6.
Since we know that those two other games sold 255,000 and 213,000 units in December, respectively, we can say that the PS3 version of Prince of Persia had sales somewhere between those two figures.
Those numbers suggest that the two versions of Prince of Persia probably had sales within 30,000 units of each other. This is notable, given that the installed base for the Xbox 360 is more than twice that of the PlayStation 3. "[ Oracle ] [ Level 30 ] [ Rank: 14935 ]bids
1vGInfidel posted on Prince of Persia (Xbox 360) at 6:45PM PST on January 24, 2009. RE: Prince of Persia ships 2.2m, Far Cry 2 3m@vGInfidel,
Just found the post and looking at my numbers and the splits with the shipped information i think the prices of the stocks should roughly be as follows.
PS3 - 700k
PC - 700k
360 - 1200k
(Note- i am taking these splits from my original analysis which didn't assume equal US sales, if apujanata you have this sort of data i would be happy to figure it in.)[ Oracle ] [ Level 22 ] [ Rank: 150 ]bids
1vGInfidel posted on Prince of Persia (Xbox 360) at 6:38PM PST on January 24, 2009. RE: Prince of Persia ships 2.2m, Far Cry 2 3m@apujanata,
I haven't looked at the splits in depth for quite a while, if i remember correctly I put the PC version at about 25% of total sales, but im not entirely sure. I think it was loosely based off CoD4 numbers (15% i think) and then adjusted up a bit to account for the lower overall number.
Were the PS3 and 360 versions neck to neck in US? Again i can't remember the last time i looked at the splits.[ Oracle ] [ Level 22 ] [ Rank: 150 ]bids
1apujanata posted on Prince of Persia (Xbox 360) at 5:46PM PST on January 24, 2009. RE: Prince of Persia ships 2.2m, Far Cry 2 3m@vGInfidel,
What is your estimate of PC version share of overall sales ? We knew that PS3 and X360 version are neck to neck in US, and probably same thing happened in Europe. The big question is PC version, and since I don't play this game, I am at a loss on how to predict the PC version. Since you are short on the PC version, you must have an estimate on how well the PC do. :)[ Oracle ] [ Level 30 ] [ Rank: 14935 ]bids
1deftangel posted on Prince of Persia (Xbox 360) at 9:28AM PST on January 24, 2009. RE: Prince of Persia ships 2.2m, Far Cry 2 3mSorry guys, I didn't dig much deeper past the MCV headline so only just picked up this is shipped. Have changed it.
As decently reviewed games, they might wind up selling well-ish for the first quarter of the year. Ubi described PoP as a slow starter but said it had picked up well.
I'm still hoping to pick up Far Cry 2 myself but yeah another 1m shipped might be a tall order.[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 291 ]bids
1vGInfidel posted on Prince of Persia (Xbox 360) at 7:05AM PST on January 24, 2009. RE: Prince of Persia ships 2.2m, Far Cry 2 3mCurrently we have Far Cry 2 on three platforms.
PS3 - 1.1 million
PC - 1.1 million
360 - 1.8 million
Total - 4 million
Now the shipped number is only 2.9million so I'd say we can assume a tad over 2million for total sales. Are Ubisoft going to ship another million units on top of the 500k + already in the supply channel? I think not. Chances are there won't be any more significant shipments so the shipped figure will be around 3 million. Already a million below our estimate, then we are expecting that all of these will sell. Again highly unlikely, so I would put a combined figure of 2.5-2.8million total across all three platforms. We are predicting ~50% more than this.[ Oracle ] [ Level 22 ] [ Rank: 150 ]bids
1apujanata posted on Prince of Persia (Xbox 360) at 4:26PM PST on January 23, 2009. RE: Prince of Persia ships 2.2m, Far Cry 2 3m@Arbiter,
@deftangel,
I think 50% assumption for X360 version is dangerous. Why ?
This article told us that X360 and PS3 version # are very close (less than 30K difference), even though X360 userbase in US are way above PS3 userbase in US. With Europe, we don't have any data, but I think there is a big possibility that PS3 version are doing better compared to X360 version in Europe, since X360 userbase in Europe are only slightly larger than PS3 userbase.
The wildcard here is the PC #. IF we assume that PC got 10% or more of total sales, then I believe that a 40% X360, 50% PS3 (and 10% PC) is more reasonable.
This is why I am short on this game. I think 1.2 Million or below is the right price of this stock.[ Oracle ] [ Level 30 ] [ Rank: 14935 ]bids
1vGInfidel posted on Prince of Persia (Xbox 360) at 10:43AM PST on January 23, 2009. RE: Prince of Persia ships 2.2m, Far Cry 2 3m@Heloise10,
Absolutely right. A very misleading article title and summary. This is shipped not sold as shown here.
Still, it is going to allow me to increase my Far Cry PC short.[ Oracle ] [ Level 22 ] [ Rank: 150 ]bids
4Heloise10 posted on Prince of Persia (Xbox 360) at 10:20AM PST on January 23, 2009. RE: Prince of Persia ships 2.2m, Far Cry 2 3m@deftangel,Yes ... but all this is sell-in (to retailers, not to gamers ...)[ Elite ] [ Level 23 ] [ Rank: 14 ]bids
1deftangel posted on Prince of Persia (Xbox 360) at 10:17AM PST on January 23, 2009. RE: Prince of Persia ships 2.2m, Far Cry 2 3mbids
1Arbiter posted on Prince of Persia (Xbox 360) at 10:09AM PST on January 23, 2009. RE: Prince of Persia ships 2.2m, Far Cry 2 3m@deftangel,
Prince of Persia was released on 3 platforms (Xbox 360, PS3, and PC). If we assume 1/2 of the sales were on 360, that would get us to 1.1 million so far, which is somewhat close to the current GLS forecast. I guess it depends on what market share you think the Xbox 360 captured for this title.[ Guru ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 159 ]bids
16deftangel posted on Prince of Persia (Xbox 360) at 9:09AM PST on January 23, 2009. Article: Prince of Persia ships 2.2m, Far Cry 2 3mAlong with its financial results and confirmation of a new outing for Assassin’s Creed, Ubisoft has also confirmed that its next-gen sandbox shooter Far Cry has now sold 2.9m copies worldwide. In addition, Shaun White Snowboarding has sold 2.3m copies and can claim the crown of being the second best-selling sports titles in North America in 2008. The latest iteration of the firm’s Prince of Persia franchise has also sold well, notching 2.2m sales[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 291 ]
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I had an inkling you had got the two mixed up. :-)