Sega has launched its newest monetary report, confirming that Sonic Racing: Crossworld didn’t meet the corporate’s expectations, regardless of excessive reward from critics.
Phrases from Koichi Fukasawa, Director and Senior Vice President, can be found within the PDF presentation of our second quarter monetary launch. He detailed a purpose of promoting a further million copies of the sport subsequent 12 months, which he hopes will probably be additional enhanced by the continued launch of downloadable content material.
Now, this time I want to speak about “Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds”.
It has obtained excessive reward, with a metascore of over 80 on Metacritic, and an “overwhelmingly optimistic*1” ranking in buyer evaluations on Steam. We not too long ago introduced that cumulative worldwide gross sales have exceeded 1 million items. Nevertheless, preliminary outcomes didn’t meet expectations, and we intention to promote a further 1 million items inside this fiscal 12 months. We intention to take care of long-term gross sales by persevering with to assist titles, similar to by regularly releasing extra downloadable content material, in order that customers can benefit from the sport for a very long time.
SEGA famous that its general outcomes for the primary half of the 12 months had been considerably disappointing, citing Rovio’s efficiency within the leisure sector in addition to lower-than-expected gross sales within the gaming division.
The presentation highlighted Yakuza Kiwami 3 and Darkish Tides as this 12 months’s main full-game releases, however with the whole trade grappling with an unsure economic system and rising costs, maybe just a few extra hits are wanted.