In the past, I’ve never been too shy to display my feelings about how Ninja Theory’s boss, Tameem Antoniades, continually cried to the media about how Sony’s lack of an install base and marketing strategy was the ultimate reason as to why Heavenly Sword sold as poorly as it did (which I don’t agree with at all, I believe it sold fairly well).  In fact, Antoniades would like for the world to believe that the development team made no money from Heavenly Sword whatsoever (they say they lost money).

Today, however, despite how hard Tameem said it was to develop a game exclusively for the PlayStation 3, Namco Bandai revealed the sales figures for Ninja Theory’s latest release — Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. As you can imagine, considering all of the complaints of exclusive status in the past, Antoniades should be ecstatic about releasing a quality multiplatform title to the masses, right (after all, Enlaved was a quality title)?

Sadly, the gaming community disagrees as Enslaved managed to sell under 500,000 total copies world wide. To be honest, these sales figures are quite shocking and pretty appalling considering how well put together Enslaved actually was. However, it does now set up Tameem with the opportunity to hit the media streets once more to express the frustrations of game development and how they’re preparing to take their ball and go home — hopefully not before finishing up the next installment in the Devil May Cry franchise which is sure to sell millions out the door — maybe.

I bet Heavenly Sword 2 isn’t looking like too bad of an opportunity now, is it?