Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 ships 1 million for its first week in US stores
Wedbush Morgan Securities’ Michael Pachter’s latest investor research note on Ubisoft has revealed the company has shipped over one million units of their Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3) game in the U.S. All this before the PC version release on April 15th, 2008.
The game hit store shelves only one week ago and has been received with very high scores (the average review score is over 83% on GameRankings.com). Mr. Pachter previously estimated that 1.7 million units of the game will ship for the current quarter, and he acknowledged that these early results for the game “compare favorably” with his estimate. He also noted that Ubisoft’s U.S. retail sales are up 26 percent quarter-to-date compared with the company’s guidance for a revenue decline of 18 percent in the current March quarter. “We expect the upside in Rainbow Six to offset weakness caused by the strong Euro and lighter performance of its other releases (notably LOST) during the quarter,” Pachter said according to Gamedaily.
