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Vanquish and Football Manager 2011's Western sales "slow"
Posted: 04.02.2011 13:28 by Simon Priest Comments: 4
SEGA has said in its fiscal report that Western sales of Platinum Games' sci-fi shooter Vanquish, and Football Manager 2011 were "generally weak".

That's because of "sluggish personal consumption" in both Europe and the US. Vanquish and FM 2011 both failed to break 1 million copies sold.

SEGA sold under 6 million videogames in Europe these past nine months, 5.8 million in the US and 1.9 million in Japan. Vanquish sold 820k copies since its October launch, Sonic Colours for Nintendo DS managed 1.85m. Football Manager 2011 was at 690k.

Nevertheless SEGA posted net sales of £2.3 billion for its first three quarters of the fiscal year, which is an increase of 8.7 percent. Operating income hit £478 million, up 118.2 percent and net income was £279 million increasing 117.3 percent.
Source: Eurogamer

Comments

By PowerJack (SI Elite) on Feb 04, 2011
PowerJack
Well Vanquish was kind of repetitive by the end of the the game I was tired of blowing robots up.
By JonahFalcon (SI Elite) on Feb 04, 2011
JonahFalcon
Vanquish sucked, and while I like the Championship Manager type of game, it really hasn't evolved. They need a real update to that game.
By neilmike (SI Core) on Feb 04, 2011
neilmike
they should've included the pc platform for vanquish...greedy sega!!
with football manager the graphics need improve hell of alot more!! and also fm 2011 can be too hard at times so really they need to includes an option for selecting the desired level of difficulty...
By VHugoSama (SI Core) on Feb 05, 2011
VHugoSama
I Agreed with both of you (PowerJack and JonahFalcon) vanquish was repetitive and FM is always the same thing. I can't even see a Romanov in front of me anymore.