Watch Dogs breaks Ubisoft day-one sales record

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Watch Dogs has sold the most copies in its first 24 hours of any game in Ubisoft history, the firm announced Wednesday.

The firm did not address specific sales numbers. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said in a prepared statement that Watch Dogs' sales are particularly impressive considering it does not belong to an established franchise.

"Watch Dogs is an amazing achievement and our teams should be proud that the creativity, innovation and long hours they invested in making this game are paying off," Guillemot said. "It's great to see so many players enjoying the game, and it shows that Watch Dogs has cracked the code for developing a new blockbuster IP and a thoroughly new-gen experience."

The publisher's best-selling franchise is Assassin's Creed, with more than 76 million copies sold worldwide. Ubisoft has made no secret of its hopes to turn Watch Dogs into another tentpole series.

The Watch Dogs season pass offers extra side missions, weapons, and a new campaign following conspiracy theorist hacker T-Bone.

Posted: May 28, 2014 4:49 pm
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Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/465202/watch-dogs-breaks-ubisoft-day-one-sales-record/

Comments

MaggardoPosted: Wed. May 28, 2014

Then it must've sold a lot of copies.

DomixinPosted: Wed. May 28, 2014

Looks like a fun game with a cool story, but I don't think I'm going to be picking up the game because it doesn't look like it has any replay-ability. It looks like it'll just be boring once you beat the story.

D93xPosted: Wed. May 28, 2014

TheMightyRevzy Lots of people were super pumped for this game purely for the hacker aspect. I got it and its not as good as i thought. Sales were up because of the suspense for the game

I agree, it really isn't that great, its the same all the time

TickldPosted: Wed. May 28, 2014

I think it is actually a decent game.

CarlPosted: Wed. May 28, 2014

Lots of people were super pumped for this game purely for the hacker aspect. I got it and its not as good as i thought. Sales were up because of the suspense for the game

LostPosted: Wed. May 28, 2014

Looks like a fun game but I don't really like to buy games like these. Feels like once you've beaten the game then there's nothing to do.

-yoghurtPosted: Wed. May 28, 2014

i a definate to get for me. looks amazing

SakiPosted: Wed. May 28, 2014

Miss I bet it did with all the hype that has been around it. I'll assume a good 300 million copies sold.

That's waaaaay too high of a number for day one sales. Maybe 30 million, not 300 million.

MissPosted: Wed. May 28, 2014

I bet it did with all the hype that has been around it. I'll assume a good 300 million copies sold.