The end?
Sales for Ninja Theory’s cinematic action game Enslaved: Odyssey to the West are much lower than expected.
November reports of 800,000 units were greatly exaggerated; today’s Namco Bandai money report shows only 460,000 copies of the game have been sold – worldwide.
Such numbers are unlikely to vindicate Namco Bandai’s decision to green-light Hollywood hires Alex Garland and Andy Serkis. Ninja Theory’s Tameem Antoniades called these “above-the-line-costs” that have to be pitched to the publisher.