Prince of Persia Lost Crown sold 1.3 million units

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#1 SolidGame_basic  Online
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https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2025/01/prince-of-persia-the-lost-crowns-reported-1-3-million-sales-not-enough-for-ubisoft

About this time last year, Ubisoft released Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, a fantastic side-scrolling Metroidvania — but it sadly failed to live up to the publisher's expectations.

Despite great reviews, the game didn't deliver in terms of sales, leading to the team being dispersed to other Ubisoft projects.

Recently, it seemingly came to light just how many copies the game shifted, thanks to a Ubisoft employee's LinkedIn account (which mysteriously no longer exists).

As spotted by X user Timur222, the profile, belonging to an Associate Marketing Director, stated The Lost Crown sold over 1.3 million units in its first year.

This seems like a fairly respectable figure, but obviously, it wasn't enough to meet the publisher's internal targets.

Ubisoft has been through the wringer over the last year or two with several tepid game launches and other issues, including the short-livedXDefiant and Star Wars Outlaws, which should've been a slam dunk but also failed to sell.

damn.. sucks to see games like this not meet sales expectations. Thoughts, SW? Will we ever see another Prince of Persia game?

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#2 lundy86_4
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Never played, so can't comment on the quality. Honestly thought it looked decent, so might pick up on sale down the road.

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#3  Edited By Litchie  Online
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It only sold a lot. Not a shitload. So we can't do more of that.

Game is good, I recommend.

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#4 judaspete
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@Litchie: Right? Jesus Christ Ubisoft.

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#5 dracula_16
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Unfortunately, originality is dying. To know that a game as good as this failed to meet expectations is very depressing. Everything nowadays is a shooter or an open world game.

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#6 adsparky
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I bought, but i haven't played it, it got discounted really fast, got it like for $20, guess their sales projection were really high.

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#7 Archangel3371
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Didn’t get it myself. The Prince of Persia games just really aren’t my thing.

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#8 uninspiredcup
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Ubisoft will still die.

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#9 Last_Lap
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You've got to remember all publishers are greedy mofos, so in this day & age just about every game is a failure to these kind of people.

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#10 mrbojangles25
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I mean I heard good things about it but I'm not really sure why Ubisoft or anyone else expected big sales.

Also, is 1.3 million bad? Seems like a lot. Surely a decent profit, yes?

@uninspiredcup said:

Ubisoft will still die.

Maybe, but it will be a zombie corp still, bought by some venture capitalist or investment firm or something like that.

So, surprisingly, likely worse.

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#11  Edited By WitIsWisdom
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That's a lot more than I figured it would in all honesty.. a franchise that's never clicked with me personally. Well... I guess one of the games I played wasn't too bad..

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#12 Pedro
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I enjoyed this game. It not meeting expectations was expected because gamers prefer remakes.😏

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#13 UItravioIence
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I've been meaning to buy this. Thanks for the reminder!

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#14 RSM-HQ
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Read it's a fairly decent MetroidVania game, personally took a pause from those games because played too many within a short period.

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#15 my_user_name
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I think it should've launched for a lower price.

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#16 BenjaminBanklin
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That seems really good. But sales expectations are so high that even a title like this is unsustainable. Shame

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#17 jeffbuckley1
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Time the industry works out how to make games cheaper.

If 1.3m sale isnt profitable then they need to reduce costs

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#18 osan0
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I wonder what the expectations were? 1.3 million units for a side scrolling metroidvania using a not very big, and quite neglected, IP seems pretty good. Not every game is going to sell in the 10s of millions and that's ok. It doesn't mean it wasn't worth making.

If the game ended up making a loss then something went terribly wrong during development. A game like that should be able to make some money off of 1.3 million sales.

I haven't played the game myself but I hear it's very good.