Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown has underperformed, only 300,000 players so far

[John Elden Ring]

In early January, Ubisoft released one of its highest-rated Metacritic games in the past decade, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. The game hit a height of 88 (Nintendo Switch) with its critic score and a 9.1 user score, leading many to believe that the game could already be in the running for several Game of the Year awards. Despite the impressive scores though, the game has around 300,000 players at the time of writing (estimated $15m in revenue).

via insiderGaming

 

[shrike0fth0rns]

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I’m not sure what they expected. It’s a side scrolling prince of persia that’s not prince of persia.

 

[Pocky]

Something was going to fail. No way would all of the games that launched this month was going to profitable. Some of these games should have moved the release date to another month but likely had to drop now because of fiscal years usually ends on March.

 

[Box]

I’m not sure what they expected. It’s a side scrolling prince of persia that’s not prince of persia.

I wish thry would go back to the 2008 style, that was so good

 

[JAHGamer]

Its too soon to call it a failure, games like this have long legs and "player" count is dumb. I bought it physically day 1 and still haven't played it yet. I plan to play it after beating Yakuza

 

[Gods&Monsters]

I'm very interested and I will definitely play this game but the period is so busy.

Ultros is another Metroidvania coming soon and it's half the price. I'm playing Afterimage and Grime too

 

[Vertigo]

300,000 is like 3x the amount I would’ve expected. Not too bad considering it’s a dead IP and no one cares.

Makes you wonder what their expectations were or did Ubisoft think they could make up for the ckusterfuck that was the game’s development and jumping studios.

 

[Sircaw]

The game looked very good to me, and it made money and will continue to see.

there expectations seem a bit OTT.

 

[peter42O]

Not surprised. $50 is too big of an ask for a 2D platformer in my opinion.

 

[reziel]

The fact that the Nintendo Switch couldn't even help this is all to tell with what people wanted from this game.

 

[Zzero]

88 being the best Ubisoft could offer in a full decade is very damning. I mean, yeah, its a high benchmark but its not that high. Ten years and thats the highest they've gotten? Really?

In all fairness you could argue that anti-AC bias unfairly impacted the 3 Origins styled AC games. I'd argue that those all deserved 9s, at least but all it takes is a select few assholes complaining about "too much game" to ruin it.