The 2022 reboot of the Saints Row collection was removed from being a industrial success for Embracer, particularly given its $100 million funds. In response to new data, the sport has bought lower than 2 million copies.
The figures come from a LinkedIn profile of former Volition neighborhood supervisor Tyrin Stevenson (first noticed by Timur222 on X).
Stevenson described Saints Row (2022) as a “AAA sport that attracted over 1 million gamers and bought 1.7 million models.”
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In response to Volition, the sport attracted over 1 million gamers between its launch in August 2022 to October 2022. Analysts beforehand estimated that Saints Row needed to promote round 2 million copies to interrupt even.
Nonetheless, neither the studio nor its guardian firm have up to date the figures since October 2022. In separate monetary experiences, Embracer Group solely said that Saints Row’s gross sales have been in step with administration expectations and that the sport had a low ROI, that means it struggled to recoup its funding.
Though there isn’t any official details about the industrial efficiency of the Saints Row reboot stay undisclosed, listed here are the gross sales figures for different titles within the collection:
- Saints Row IV — over 1 million copies bought in its first week (lifetime gross sales stay undisclosed);
- Saints Row: The Third — 3.8 million copies bought in two months (lifetime gross sales — over 5.5 million models);
- Saints Row 2 — 2.8 million copies bought from October 14, 2008 to March 31, 2009 (lifetime gross sales — over 3.4 million models);
- Saints Row — over 1 million copies bought from August to the top of 2006 (lifetime gross sales — over 2 million models).
This possible makes the Saints Row reboot the worst-performing sport within the franchise.
Final September, Embracer Group shut down Volition as a part of its cost-cutting restructuring program, which finally resulted in almost 1,500 layoffs throughout the holding firm’s varied subsidiaries. Earlier this yr, a bunch of Volition veterans based Shapeshifter Video games, a brand new co-development studio targeted on working with different builders and publishers.