As the primary ever open world Star Wars recreation and coming from a significant developer and writer, you’d have anticipated Star Wars Outlaws to have gotten off to a way more spectacular begin the place gross sales are involved. Upon its launch in August, its bodily launch gross sales within the UK had been reported to be 55 % decrease than what EA and Respawn Leisure’s Star Wars Jedi: Survivor managed upon its launch final yr, and extra info on its preliminary gross sales within the area has now emerged that continues to color a less-than-glowing image.
As per Christopher Dring of GamesIndustry on Twitter, even with each bodily and digital gross sales mixed, Star Wars Outlaws’ gross sales appear decrease than anticipated, with the sport having bought about half as a lot as Ubisoft’s personal Murderer’s Creed Mirage – a a lot smaller recreation in scope – did upon its launch within the UK final yr.
That stated, apparently, Star Wars Outlaws has nonetheless carried out significantly better than developer Huge Leisure’s final recreation, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, which launched in December. As per Dring, Outlaws has greater than half as a lot as Avatar did, and nonetheless has “loads of alternative to drive” extra gross sales within the closing months of the yr.
Final week, it was reported that Star Wars Outlaws’ middling launch had contributed to continued share value declines for Ubisoft, with the corporate additionally being urged by traders to go non-public. Learn extra on that via right here.
Star Wars Outlaws is out there on PS5, Xbox Sequence X/S, and PC. Learn our evaluate of the sport via right here.
