The 2022 Saints Row reboot is probably going the bottom promoting entry in franchise historical past.
In line with a Linkedin submit from former Volition group and social media supervisor Tyrin Stevenson, the sport offered 1.7 million models.
If true, it will imply the reboot has offered lower than each mainline entry within the franchise. Saints Row The Third is the very best promoting entry at over 5.5 million copies, with Saints Row 2 managing 3.4 million. The unique sport within the sequence, which was launched solely on Xbox 360, offered over 2 million copies.
Whereas present gross sales figures for Saints Row 4 aren’t accessible, the sport offered over 1 million copies in its opening week in 2013, that means that it’s very possible it exceeded the 1.7 million gross sales of Saints Row in its lifespan.
Saints Row obtained blended evaluations at launch, with VGC’s Saints Row evaluate labelling the sport a “buggy, uninteresting mess”. It at present has scores of 61-65 on the evaluate aggregation web site Metacritic.
Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors beforehand stated he was personally upset by the reception to Saints Row, when he spoke throughout Embracer’s AGM in September 2022.
“Personally, I had hoped for a larger reception to the sport,” he stated on the time. “It’s been very polarising. There are a whole lot of issues that might be stated intimately round it, however I’m with one hand blissful to see a lot of avid gamers and followers blissful, and on the identical time I’m a bit unhappy to additionally see followers not blissful, so it’s tough.
Not lengthy after this, Embracer Group closed Volition.
Volition was initially fashioned 30 years in the past, as Parallax Software program Company, earlier than altering its title to Volition in 1996.
