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Activision’s imminent action sequel Prototype 2 won’t reach the sales heights of the first game, Cowen and Company analyst Doug Creutz has predicted.
Prototype sold around 900,000 copies during its first year following its launch in June 2009, but Prototype 2 won’t even come close to this figure, says Creutz.
“We had been modelling the title to slightly exceed the 900,000 U.S. units the original title sold through during the year after its June 2009 launch,” he explained. “We now believe Prototype 2 could struggle to reach 500,000 first-year U.S. units.”
Creutz notes that the sequel has failed to break into Amazon’s top 100 games chart, which he claims is “typically a bad sign for actual sales”.
While Creutz is estimating only sales in the US, the half a million figure suggests worldwide sales will fall millions short of targets for the sequel.
Back in March Radical Entertainment studio VP Dave Fracchia said: “We sold 2.1 million copies of the first game and our expectations are much higher for this one.
“I would roughly say we’re looking at between 1.5 to two times [the sales of prototype]. I would obviously like to see it higher than that.”
Prototype 2 will be released April 24.
Via Gamasutra
