Take-Two has claimed that Evolve enjoyed an "incredibly successful" commercial launch, according to company president Karl Slatoff delivering a talk at the Piper Jaffray Technology, Media and Telecommunications Conference. Evolve did debut at number one in the UK charts, but has since slipped, with Dying Light inhabiting the top spot. Slatoff still believes that Turtle Rock's multiplayer shooter has delivered commercially, however. "And as the game evolved, and I guess the pun is sort of intended, I think our instincts have proven out right," he said during the conference. "We're very pleased; we've had an incredibly successful commercial launch with Evolve." He continued: “We're very happy with where things are going, particularly on the digital side. Digital has been very strong with us. Not only with full-game downloads, but also the attach rates for our season pass have been very strong. I'm not going to give you specific numbers, but we're very pleased. So I would say, in general, Evolve has been a fantastic experience for us and we're very pleased with it." Despite Take-Two's positive response to Evolve's launch, analyst Doug Creutz of investment company Cowen & Company estimates that Evolve sold only 300,000 physical copies in the US during the game's launch month of February, predicting that "the game will likely top-out at around 1.5m units of total worldwide first-year sell-through," adding that Evolve is "too niche to reach a wide audience." Creutz also said that Evolve's "confusing and over-elaborate DLC plan" likely affected the game's performance, potentially putting off some prospective buyers. Source - X360A
