Explain something about the online DRM buisness model.

[Brag]

Originally Posted by Iron Budokan

This appears to me to be the main obstacle for viability as well.

Amazon sales figures for SHV are pretty dismal its sales ranking this afternoon is 2062

Assassin's Creed 2 is not doing that much better with a ranking close to 750.

Settlers 7 is ranked at 1071

Considering the equally dismal sales for ALL their latest releases, this should be sending a strong signal to Ubisoft that they are doing something very wrong.

[Nisgeis]

Originally Posted by Brag

Amazon sales figures for SHV are pretty dismal its sales ranking this afternoon is 2062

Assassin's Creed 2 is not doing that much better with a ranking close to 750.

Settlers 7 is ranked at 1071

Considering the equally dismal sales for ALL their latest releases, this should be sending a strong signal to Ubisoft that they are doing something very wrong.

I'm assuming you mean Amazon.com, the US branch of that retailer. But you didn't say. You also don't say whether that's rankings in their respective groups or not... I mean statistics don't mean anything without the context. Is that sales rank of 2062 among all software titles? Or sales rank or 2062 among all things being sold on amazon?

Amazon.co.uk sales ranks are:

SH5 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 573 in PC & Video Games
AC2 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 150 in PC & Video Games
Settlers 7 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 183 in PC & Video Games

Is SH5 four times more popular in the UK than in the US?

On Amazon.de:

SH5 - Amazon.de Verkaufsrang: Nr. 341 in Games
AC2 - Amazon.de Verkaufsrang: Nr. 39 in Games

Even more popular in Germany, or countries serviced by Amazon Germany.

How does that stack up in terms of popularity? I mean what's a 'good' ranking for a company to take notice of? Number 1 obviously would be good, but that's idealistic, but is a ranking of 39 that bad? Does it have to be number 1? What are the financial implications of those rankings?

[kylania]

Originally Posted by Nisgeis

Is SH5 four times more popular in the UK than in the US?

The average America's attention to history can be summed up with these two images:



So it's no wonder a game about German u-boats sinking British ships would be more popular in the UK than the US.

[Nisgeis]

Well, clearly the wardrobe malfunction incident is a matter of global concern and quite rightly was analysed by the experts, and expanded beyond the limitted microcosm of the initial context of the sporting event that it initially occurred in, to occupy its place in history. I think we can all agree that although it took place in the context of a sporting event, the repurcussions of that event were much more severe than anyone could have imagined.

But what's that other picture of that monkey for?

[Brag]

_QUOTE=Nisgeis!3B1364649]I'm assuming you mean Amazon.com, the US branch of that retailer. But you didn't say. You also don't say whether that's rankings in their respective groups or not... I mean statistics don't mean anything without the context. Is that sales rank of 2062 among all software titles? Or sales rank or 2062 among all things being sold on amazon?

Amazon.co.uk sales ranks are:

SH5 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 573 in PC & Video Games
AC2 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 150 in PC & Video Games
Settlers 7 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 183 in PC & Video Games

Is SH5 four times more popular in the UK than in the US?

On Amazon.de:

SH5 - Amazon.de Verkaufsrang: Nr. 341 in Games
AC2 - Amazon.de Verkaufsrang: Nr. 39 in Games

Even more popular in Germany, or countries serviced by Amazon Germany.

How does that stack up in terms of popularity? I mean what's a 'good' ranking for a company to take notice of? Number 1 obviously would be good, but that's idealistic, but is a ranking of 39 that bad? Does it have to be number 1? What are the financial implications of those rankings?[/QUOTE]"

The figures I mantioned come from Amazon US in the category of video games. The figures you offer, though different, show pretty weak if not dismal sales in Europe.

It is quite obvious that Ubisoft's grand strategy is not working, at least on the PC side of the business.

I certainly don't expect Ubisoft to be in a position of declaring any great sucesses in the next few months. Their next quarterly report is due out soon. It will make interesting reading.

[jason210]

At Amazon.co.uk it's rank is 792 in PC and Video games. I just compared it to ArmA 2, which is another, very specialised, niche market game, that didn't sell very well. That was released in June 2009 and even that manages to score 702.