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alanjg007
08-06-2014, 12:05 PM
Ubisoft reports that Watch Dogs has racked up a considerable sales record in its first week of availability, breaking milestones with 4 million copies sold to date.

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From its inception, it was clear that Ubisoft?s hack-adventure would become a high-profile AAA release. The game itself gained roaring momentum after E3 2012, and even as it became apparent the finished product would be quite different from expectations, it has continued to snowball towards success.

On launch day Ubisoft broke the news that Watch Dogs sales raced to sell more units in a 24-hour period than any other game in the company?s history. That?s quite a prestigious feat considering Ubi has crafted some of gaming?s greatest IP?s?Assassin?s Creed, and Far Cry to name two.

Now the publisher has proudly revealed that Aiden?s techno-stealth adventure has just one-upped itself with yet another sales milestone.

In just a single week, Watch Dogs sold a staggering 4 million copies and will now be known as the record-holder for the best-selling new IP in video games history.

?With such strong sales momentum and positive feedback from gamers, Watch Dogs has positioned itself as the must-have game of the moment? said Tony Key, senior vice president of sales and marketing, Ubisoft ?We?re really proud of this achievement, and are confident that the Watch Dogs brand has a promising future.?

Despite the near-unanimous claim that Watch Dogs doesn?t break many molds in the genre, the impressive sales are a big win for Ubi and pretty much ensures that the game becomes a franchised endeavor. In terms of open-world sales dominance, GTA V still reigns supreme with its incredible $1 billion earnings in just three days, but of course Watch Dogs is a mere puppy age-wise and can?t be expected to take on the grizzled timber-wolf that is the GTA franchise.

It?ll be interesting to see how sales fare in a month?s time, and how they are affected when big-name titles such as Destiny hit the market.

ribenaman
14-06-2014, 02:33 AM
It's just unfortunate that the PC version of it is really pretty broken at the moment. More than two weeks following release, the promised patch has not materialized. If you look at the user reviews on metacritic, they're pretty scathing. I guess the sales are a triumph of advertising.

Personally, I think it looks like a great game, and have been playing it a bit, but I'm holding off getting into it until the patch drops, in a couple of hours of play it's crashed about 4 times for me, and it really ought to run better.

biffyclyro57
10-07-2014, 02:19 AM
heard very mixed reviews. Its one of those games i think i will wait a while before picking up. Maybe even as a pre owned copy.

wandemkeygen
10-07-2014, 09:18 AM
Had high hopes for this game but the version I got hold of was kinda buggy and in order to play I lower the graphics to the point of it just not being a decent game anymore. It was kinda fun for a few minutes but I can't say I ever really got into it.

Hoping GTA will be much better when it finally comes out!