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Originally Posted by Magnum
Stop pointing at DRM as a fail argument for SH5. AC2 it also has DRM requirement and is still in top of the most popular games. This DRM ranting is so damn boring  |
Don't forget that Assassin's Creed II has also console versions, which sold very well since autumn 2009 and generated millions of sales, hence a major fraction of the published total sales. No one of us know how many copies of each platform version of AC II were really sold, and whether ACII for PC did truly remarkably, or just else. SHV did not have a console version on the market well ahead of time. Nor did Siedler VII, at least to my knowledge. Ubisoft is very hesistant of admitting accurate sales numbers for each product, though it would be extremely interesting to see a detailed listing of all its products, by platform and by month since say September 2009. That would tell more.
However, there is indirect evidence that PC sales and total sales went down quite dramatically from Ubisoft Corporate Q4 sales report, which you can get from the PDF of the 2009-2010 report. The fact that this console game "Dance" or so with 3 mio copies was the workhorse in Q4 2009 doesn't speak well for the other releases.