Watch Dogs Shipments Hit 8 Million Units, Pushes Revenue Up 374% - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 10 July 2014 / 8,600 ViewsUbisoft has released its sales figures for its first fiscal quarter, which ended June 30, 2014. Sales for the quarter jumped 374 percent from €76 million a year ago to €360 million. The huge jump in sales was due to the release of new IP Watch Dogs.
Ubisoft has announced that shipments for Watch Dogs have hit eight million units. This is up from the four million units that were sold in its first week.
"The success of Watch Dogs and the quality of our games portfolio presented at this year’s E3 highlight our strategic positioning as well as our continuous drive for innovation, and affirm our long-term approach," said CEO Yves Guillemot. "Watch Dogs is now well positioned as a major franchise and we will be able to replicate and build on its success in the coming years. Its sales performance testifies to Ubisoft’s expertise as a creator of blockbuster brands."
When you break sales down by platform, the PlayStation 4 more than doubled the nexy closest platforms with 36 percent of sales. The Xbox One and PlayStation 3 each accounted for 17 percent of sales. The Xbox 360 and PC each accounted for 14 percent of sales.
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Good for one new ip.
""Watch Dogs is now well positioned as a major franchise and we will be able to replicate and build on its success in the coming years."-----> OH NO!!! Annual iterations AHEAD!!!!!
Amen...
good job watch dogs lets try to go for 10 million!
i said between 12-15 million.
Being 1 of the 5 platforms, PC accounts for 14% of sales. Not bad.
8m already!? Wow... and 4 times what MK8 sold ;)
You have break bals, Watch Dogs have SHIPMENS (you know what is shipmens???).
Infamous S.S have sold less of 1.5 million in 3 month, TitanFAIL have sold less of 2 million on XBOX ONE and 3 million XO+PC+360, MK8 by the end of year will outsell easy this FPS games, i must continue?
Oh, this is so bad..., expect even worsе sequel because vast majority of the gamers doesn't have self-consciousness.
I am looking forward to what the next Watch Dogs could bring.
Good for Ubisoft. I'm sure they've been pretty nervous about Splinter Cell flopping, AC veering off, Rayman Legends selling poorly, and the Just Dance craze slowly eroding away. Not sure if a sequel to WD would sell as well this one, but I think it's nice foothold for their future.
Another case of undeserved sales just because "hardcore gamers" couldn't wait to spend their money on hype rather than quality.
Watch_Dogs is a good game, not one masterpiece, but the shoveling of shit is unjustified ...
Watch Dogs is good, it could be the next Assassin's Creed. What else would gamers wait for Destiny?