Watch Dogs and The Crew delays not the only factors for amended fiscal year forecast, also Splinter Cell: Blacklist and Rayman Legends have under-performed.
One of the leading companies in the gaming industry “Ubisoft” has had one of its representative admit that both the titles “Splinter Cell: Blacklist” and “Rayman Legends” have performed below their expectations while pressed on their sales forecast during an investors conference call earlier today.
“As we have said we have experienced lower sales than we anticipated when we gave our targets,” Ubisoft CFO Alain Martinez said. “Already released games such as Splinter Cell, Rayman and others.”
Ubisoft expected their initial forecast to be a $1.94 billion income figure by the end of 2013, but they are now expecting $1.38 billion. They say the results to this is due to the investments of consumers (you guys) on new titles that lead up to the next-gen consoles. So the delay for “Watch Dogs” and “The Crew” is a good factor for them to further work on the titles to ready up for those next-gen consoles like Playstation 4 and Xbox One. The CEO Yves Guillemot added on by saying that the publisher hopes “Watch Dogs” will join it’s other blockbuster hits.
“Watch Dogs was trending towards the higher part of our guidance because the pre-orders were very good,” the exec said. “We had more units than we had on the original plan.”
“In a world of mega-blockbusters we have come to the conclusion that the team needed more time to realise the game’s potential,” he said. “We consider it to be a long term pillar of our future performance, alongside the likes of Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry.”
