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Ubisoft has announced that sales for the first half of 2009-10 – the six month period ended September 30, 2009 – came in at €166 million, down 52 per cent at constant exchange rates, compared with the €344 million recorded for the same period of 2008-09.
Of the titles released during this period, Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood was the stand out performer, selling close to 900,000 units.
Yves Guillemot, Chief Executive Officer, stated: “As expected, in the first half of fiscal 2009-10 the market was very difficult both for Nintendo DS games and for our back-catalogue titles, with few new releases.”
He continued: “The second half of the year should be significantly more favourable with a return to strong growth and profitability. Although the environment is still uncertain and the full effect of the sharp drop in console prices has yet to be felt, Ubisoft has the advantage of a diversified and very high-quality line-up for the crucial Holiday period, including the blockbusters Assassin’s Creed 2 and James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game for the Xbox 360 and PS3 and a wide-ranging portfolio of very well-calibrated games for the Wii such as Your Shape, Just Dance, Shaun White and Rabbids Go Home.”
Speaking of the publisher’s fourth quarter, Guillemot added: “Growth is expected to be even stronger … fuelled by the launches of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction, Red Steel 2 and R.U.S.E..”
