Rainbow Six Vegas 2, Explosive Hit For Ubisoft

Soon after Ubisoft bought the rights to Tom Clancy’s name, the latest game in the franchise has breached and cleared the 2 million sales mark. That's 2 million copies, not 2 million dollars. Rainbow Six Vegas 2 has surpassed all sales expectations keeping Ubisoft shares in an upward trend.

Ubisoft just announced that the Rainbow Six Vegas 2 just sold over 2 million copies between PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.

“Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 had a better than expected start,” said Yves Guillemot, President and CEO of Ubisoft.

In fact, sales have been so brisk for the new game Ubisoft has raised its total sales projections for 2007-2008. The company now expects to be somewhere around 920 million euros ($1.44 billion) into the black by the end of the year.

On March 25 Ubisoft announced that it cut a deal to buy the Tom Clancy name. The deal gives Ubisoft the rights to all future books, movies, merchandising and especially video games.  It’s been a great investment for the French video game developer so far.

Details are sketchy but there’s a new Tom Clancy “Air Combat” game forthcoming. Tom Clancy’s End War is a real time strategy game that recreates a possible world war three scenario in 2020. Both new games are slated to be released in 2008.