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There is no doubt that if at the beginning of the year we had asked what it was one of the most important Xbox exclusives of 2024, almost everyone would have agreed that Senua's Saga Hellblade 2 would have taken that spot. There is no doubt that the Ninja Theory game has been one of the great additions that have come to Xbox Game Pass so far this year, but it seems that the game has not had the success that we all could have expected at first .
If a couple of weeks ago we learned that more than 90% of Xbox players had not completed the game, in the last few hours another detail has been known that does not play in the game's favor at all. According to data provided by Christopher Dring, a member of Games Industry, he has spoken about Hellblade 2 sales indirectly, because although he has not given specific data about the copies that the game has been able to sell (as it is only available in digital format), he has confirmed that the Ninja Theory game It has not even reached the Top 100 best-selling games of May.
The sales of Hellblade 2 do not allow it to even be among the 100 best sellers of May
As we have said, Dring has not shared a specific figure on the sales of Hellblade 2. However, what it has revealed is that the game has not reached the Top 100 best-selling games of last month, a destiny it has shared with Rogue Prince of Persia. Without a doubt, these are really negative data for the interests of Xbox and Ninja Theory, although we would have to see what the sales forecast of both companies was, knowing that the title would be available on Xbox Game Pass.
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However, many have begun to fear the worst, and that is that these results could serve as an excuse for Microsoft to make the same decision it already made with Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin. It must be remembered that a few days ago, Matt Booty assured that the changes in the studio were what caused the decision for it to close its doors, and precisely this It is something that has also happened with Ninja Theory.
Since the beginning of this year, Tameem Antoniades, one of the co-founders of the studio, and its director at the time of the purchase of the studio by Xbox, left Ninja Theory at the beginning of the year, as happened with Shinji Mikami at Tango Gameworks. Therefore, these types of changes could cause Microsoft to take the decision to close Ninja Theory.