Love it or hate it, Watch Dogs has been a huge success for Ubisoft. The new property, which sees you hacking your way through Chicago as a gruff cyber-hero out for revenge, was well received by both critics and consumers alike, and in the publisher's latest financial report, it's announced that the game has shipped nine million copies.
The impressive thing is that just three months ago, that total equalled one million less. CEO Yves Guillemot cited Watch Dogs itself as a major part of the company's recent success, saying "Ubisoft continued to capitalize on the popularity of new consoles, the successful launch of Watch Dogs, the quality of its back catalog and the considerable growth of the digital segment." Not bad at all for the beginning of what will inevitably evolve into a new franchise for the French publisher.
Have you snapped up a copy of Watch Dogs lately, or have you been on a hacking spree since day one? Whip out your magical smartphone in the comments section below.
[source joystiq.com]
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And in 3 more weeks sales - oops, I mean shipped - can go up to 9,000,003.
And then Ubi will complain about how nobody on Wii U wanted to buy a 4 month old game that 9 million people had already played so they'll be justified in not putting the sequel on Wii U.
@rjejr Lol, I think the WiiU version will sale 150k tops lifetime sales.
@XFsWorld - Well I suppose it could be worse, Wii U could be getting DriveClub in 3 weeks
still not picked up this game, might wait until christmas
I got put off buying this along the way.
@rjejr
I have one copy in my collection:D Very nice game.
Just played it last month and it was everything I hoped it would be. Not without flaws of course but I wonder if the whole "downgrade" issue clouded a lot of people's judgement?
It was a decent enough game, not interested in any future releases though
@Bad-MuthaAdebis Agree. A good game and given the numbers, I fully expect a sequel at some point. BUT, honestly if they just put out another one the same I am not sure I would buy it. They will need to take it somewhere quite new (not just location) to re-spark interest.
@Ginkgo they need to move on from aiden pearce, most boring character in it, it also didn't feel even slightly next gen to me. The hacking itself was pretty cruddy, some of the side missions were ok, too much of sneak here and chase this for me though.
I really enjoyed the game...the grim moody setting of the city had a real dark noir vibe to it...the hacking may have ended up as just a button pressing gimmick but over all I liked it. I'd have to see where they go with a sequel before I'd decide if I bought it or not tho....I got assassins creed fatigue from it all being too samey over the course of AC2/Brotherhood/Revelations being all set in the same location/time zone and the characters stories being stretched out too far and thin. I'd hope to see Aiden Pierce visit new locations and gain an expanded and deep storyline with a worthwhile narrative following the events of the 1st game.
Great game, I enjoyed it a lot even if it did have a few flaws.
Not on my top 10 favorite open world games. I enjoyed Sleeping Dogs & GTA V far more.
So should we expect a yearly sequel from now until 2050?
I got it day one and was disappointed in the unrealistic car damage (even GTA4 does it better), the redundancy, and getting hacked isn't fun to me at all. I'm gonna finish it some day, but I'm saving GTA5's main ending for ps4 cause it's not a chore to play (usually). Can't help but compare the two, and GTA has better gameplay hands down
Picked it up preowned at the weekend for £15 as it was cheap enough to try, I had been warned previously I probably wont like it by a friend. Well, they were right. A few hours in & I've given up on the game. Seems to have typical Ubisoft gameplay with the hacking aspect not being as fleshed out as I was hoping either, graphically it looked like a Ps3 port to me I'm not really a fan of open world games (Really enjoyed Infamous: First Light though) as it is, but after playing GTAV on Ps3, Watch Dogs just seemed mundane.
If they make a second watchdogs, I'll get it. I liked this game, watchdogs was solid.
I still haven't bought this game yet myself, waiting until I own a PS4 in 2016 so I can enjoy this game to the fullest.
Hopefully by then we'll have a bigger HDTV too (currently have a 32 inch).
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