While integer and carnal income of the Saints Row reboot deed a beardown 2nd spot successful some American and European markets, the open-world transgression sim was denied archetypal spot by Madden NFL 23 and Grand Theft Auto V, respectively. While 2nd spot isn’t bad, the Saints Row reboot has really been a spot of a flop, astatine slightest arsenic acold arsenic Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors is concerned.

As reported by GamesIndustry.biz, 7.7 cardinal games sold successful tracked European territories during the period of August, and 2013’s Grand Theft Auto V pb the pack. Saints Row came successful astatine second, sandwiched betwixt Rockstar’s god-tier mega deed and FIFA 22. And successful the States, Video Game Chronicle has the NPD stats, showing the transgression reboot losing retired to Madden NFL 23. Quite a duo: Madden NFL 23 had disastrous reviews, and GTA V came retired (exhales) 9 years ago.

To beryllium fair, Saints Row didn’t motorboat until August 23, portion GTA V was of people disposable during the full month. (Madden came retired connected August 19.) But Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors seems beauteous down connected its performance, too. Axios’ Stephen Totilo reports that during an capitalist telephone today, Wingefors described the crime-sim reboot arsenic “one of the harder ones” for the institution to spot a instrumentality on. He’s hoping to spot a “greater reception” connected the crippled and that, portion it surely won implicit immoderate players, galore others haven’t been convinced.

It wasn’t each gloom and doom, however. Wingefors stressed that the institution needs to “wait until the quarterly study successful November to person much details.” Responding to inquiries astir the aboriginal of the franchise, Wingefors highlighted his spot successful those moving connected the crippled and said that immoderate imaginable decisions are uncertain for now.

2022’s Saints Row, a reboot of the long-running open-world transgression series, has been warring an uphill conflict since its somewhat polarizing reveal past year. Though the bid has ever played 2nd fiddle to the GTA titan, its reappearance hasn’t been terribly good received by critics and fans alike, though Kotaku’s Zack Zwiezen found it a fun-enough time.

It’s 1 happening to contemplate what a modern Saints Row would request to look similar and execute successful bid to beryllium arsenic fashionable with gamers arsenic it erstwhile was; it’s different to see however thing astatine this constituent could unseat thing that remains arsenic remarkably fashionable arsenic Grand Theft Auto V. Aside, that is, from its recently-leaked-to-all-hell sequel.