Should Activision Blizzard's Investors Be Worried About "Destiny 2" Sales?

Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI) recently published a press release touting the first-week performance of Destiny 2. However, the document contained no actual sales figures, and the only publicly released sales tracking is hardly encouraging.

First-week physical sales for Destiny 2 were reportedly down 58% in the U.K. compared to the series' first entry back in 2014 -- a good indication that the game's debut in other key territories is also down substantially from the first Destiny.

As a key entry in an important, young franchise -- and one of the company's only big 2017 releases -- that's potentially worrying. But there are also reasons to think that the game will still wind up being a success. Let's try to form a clearer picture of the game's performance and what it might mean for Activision.

Source: Fool.com