Failed miserably

"Failed miserably": Star Wars Outlaws is selling worse than Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, which was released a year and a half earlier.

Ubisoftsuffered a “crushing fiasco” with the game Star Wars Outlaws, said market-tracking journalist Christopher Dring. In the European sales chart for 2024, it took only 47th place, behind Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, which was released almost a year and a half earlier.

According to the expert, no one expected this. The game fromMassive Entertainmentwas well received when announced atSummer Game Fest 2023, but in the end something went wrong.

"Meanwhile, Star Wars Outlaws was a huge disappointment from a commercial point of view. It would seem that this is an expensive game from one of the most famous studios of Ubisoft, based on a large intellectual property, and after a successful presentation at the Summer Game Fest 2023, everything indicated that it would definitely be a hit. However, the game failed miserably. In all of Europe, it took only the 47th place in the ranking of the best-selling games of 2024, managing to be second to the released a year earlier, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor,” said Dring.

Dring's information is based on the final European game sales report for 2024, which included physical and digital copies.

Ubisoft has never disclosed sales of Star Wars Outlaws, but it is official that the game failed to live up to the company's expectations. After this, it was decided to postpone Assassin's Creed Shadows to 2025 and Ubisoft's full return to Steam.

In October, Tom Henderson's sources reported that Star Wars Outlaws was a "tragedy" for Ubisoft - in the first month and a half, players bought only 1 million copies, which is equivalent to a complete failure for the AAA/AAAA segment.

Experts say that today the future of Ubisoft directly depends on the sales of Assassin's Creed Shadows. At the same time, according to insiders, the company is already negotiating a potential sale to a large holding company.