Star Wars Outlaws was plagued with points at launch, a few of which led Ubisoft to make drastic tweaks. It wasn’t effectively obtained by the final market, and avid gamers worldwide have been giving it fairly low scores. It comes as no shock to study that in a complete month on the cabinets, Star Wars Outlaws has offered only one million copies.
It’s not as many gross sales as Ubisoft anticipated, which explains the current feedback concerning the sport’s efficiency proving ‘softer than anticipated’. It’s additionally partly why Murderer’s Creed Shadows was significantly delayed, being pushed again from November 2024 to February 2024.
Even The Power Can’t Assist
GPlayr hasn’t been in a position to study what the anticipated gross sales determine was for Star Wars Outlaws, however we have now secured a present gross sales determine from sources near the sport. On the time of writing, Star Wars Outlaws has simply ticked over a million gross sales worldwide.
To place that into perspective, we reported in January 2024 that three months after Murderer’s Creed Mirage had hit the market, it had secured 5 million gross sales.
In early trailers and demos, Star Wars Outlaws impressed avid gamers excited to discover an enormous, open-world atmosphere as a brand new character following an unique story. As time wore on, the sentiment across the sport wavered considerably, and gameplay movies launched near the launch of the sport didn’t fill shoppers with a way of anticipation.
On social, content material, and streaming platforms, the thrill round Star Wars Outlaws dried up fairly rapidly, and all that was left was a string of clips posted to social media showcasing the sport’s poor stealth sequences and bugs. That is the sort of factor that Ubisoft moved to patch up not lengthy after launch, however the harm was performed.
In thirty days in the marketplace, Star Wars Outlaws has offered only one million copies — and it’s not anticipated that it’ll shift many extra.
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