It’s no secret that the business reception of motion journey title Star Wars Outlaws was discovered disappointing by Ubisoft. Based on VGC, the sport solely managed to be the forty seventh best-selling recreation in Europe. For context, which means that the a lot older Star Wars Jedi: Survivor bought greater than Outlaws in 2024.
That is distinction to expectations for Star Wars Outlaws, which bought fairly a little bit of optimistic consideration due to its trailers, in addition to the truth that it was being developed by Huge. Vital reception, nonetheless, was lukewarm. Even our personal evaluation gave the sport a rating of 6, citing the sport’s tough stealth mechanics and instant-fail gameplay sections as its largest sticking factors.
This poor reception has had fairly a couple of penalties, and may be one of many large causes for Ubisoft founders, the Guillemot household, searching for a buyout to be able to stem its falling inventory costs. Ubisoft’s inventory costs fell shortly after the discharge of Star Wars Outlaws, with bodily gross sales within the UK reportedly being 55 p.c decrease than Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.
Analysts have additionally not been variety to the corporate, with JP Morgan analyst Daniel Kerven stating that Star Wars Outlaws had failed to satisfy gross sales expectations, and finally reducing its personal gross sales expectations for the title by 2 million copies.
For the reason that recreation’s launch, a number of updates have been launched that try to repair a few of its larger points. An replace from again in November is notable for sweeping modifications to how the stealth mechanics in Star Wars Outlaws work. Comparable updates have been launched to convey modifications to fight and canopy system as nicely.
Star Wars Outlaws has additionally gotten a DLC launch within the type of Wild Card, which additionally ended up being a disappointment due to lacklustre writing and dialogue, brief size, and a foul last boss struggle. The sport has since additionally made its method on to Steam, quite than staying unique to the Ubisoft Join retailer on PC.
In the interim, Ubisoft has revealed that it’s working with advisors to finest perceive find out how to extract most worth from its IPs and different property. CEO Yves Guillemot has reportedly additionally been in talks with Tencent for a possible buyout for Ubisoft, with Tencent wanting extra management over the selections made by the board of administrators.
Different titles by Ubisoft are additionally going through points, with the corporate having not too long ago introduced that XDefiant could be shutting down. The upcoming Murderer’s Creed Shadows has additionally been delayed to March 20.
