Unease Peanut Posted July 11, 2014 Report Share Posted July 11, 2014 (edited) Watch_Dogs has been shipped a whopping 8 million times ("Look at those numbers Aiden, there are so many") With Watch_Dogs already being the most popular next-gen title with 4 million sales a month ago, Ubisoft just released an update stating they have shipped 8 million copies to retailers across the world. This means Ubisoft has hit their target of selling 6 million copies. "The succes of Watch_Dogs and the quality of our gameportefolio at E3 shows our strategic positioning just like our ongoing push towards innovation and our long term investments", thus Yves Guillemot, boss of Ubisoft. This succes screams for a sequel, and maybe... just maybe... a yearly release. Do you think this succes was earned? And would you buy a sequel to this game? Let me know down below! Thank you for reading! Source Edited July 11, 2014 by Unease P34nut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldfreeze Posted July 11, 2014 Report Share Posted July 11, 2014 Succes was not earned, the games lifted on the hype, not the game. the sales only ruled the charts the month of release and fastly declined afterwards. The game has potential, but if the second one becomes a thrown together heap of different parts again, I see no hope for a game like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Is not JL Posted July 11, 2014 Report Share Posted July 11, 2014 This succes screams for a sequel, and maybe... just maybe... a yearly release. No. As Coldfreeze said, this game might've had a highly unique singleplayer context to it but as to whether or not it's a good enough game to support a yearly release, that we don't know of. Games like Call of Duty have 3 developers working on it's dev cycle to churn out games yearly, and its a multiplayer game that has enough brand recognition out there that it has a healthy influx of players. Games like Assassins Creed have a secured niche of SP-wanting players, it has gameplay that isn't available anywhere else (Parkour stealth action-rpg + it's great stories and unique settings) and it has like, a few thousands devs working on each game. Watch_Dogs? Highly doubt it'd work for a yearly release cycle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rrhuntington Posted July 11, 2014 Report Share Posted July 11, 2014 a yearly release. gooby plz no. Not saying this guarantees better quality, but time makes games. I didn't even get this game, I'm just saying that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldfreeze Posted July 11, 2014 Report Share Posted July 11, 2014 gooby plz no. Not saying this guarantees better quality, but time makes games. I didn't even get this game, I'm just saying that. I think a development time of around two years is enough to make a good game, now AC is the exception on this rule, just look at Unity. that game looks epic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-38 Boss Posted July 11, 2014 Report Share Posted July 11, 2014 I never want yearly releases for anything. In the short term, quality suffers. I do want a Watch_Dogs sequel though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caboose The Ace Posted July 11, 2014 Report Share Posted July 11, 2014 Ubisoft just released an update stating they have shipped 8 million copies to retailers across the world.... That is units shipped... not units sold. Anyway, Watch Dogs was a hype train with nothing to back it up. It was okayish.... nothing amazing like the 2012 E3 demo was. by I have high hopes the second will be better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connor Kenway Posted July 11, 2014 Report Share Posted July 11, 2014 Caboose Watch_Dogs was the most pre ordered IP too on X1/PS4 until Destiny took over (I think not too sure if Destiny is most pre ordered) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unease Peanut Posted July 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2014 (edited) Ubisoft just released an update stating they have shipped 8 million copies to retailers across the world.... That is units shipped... not units sold. Anyway, Watch Dogs was a hype train with nothing to back it up. It was okayish.... nothing amazing like the 2012 E3 demo was. by I have high hopes the second will be better. Technically Ubisoft themselves have sold the copies. Now it's up to the retailers to sell the copies to customers. Also stop with this behind every sentence Edited July 11, 2014 by Unease P34nut 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caboose The Ace Posted July 12, 2014 Report Share Posted July 12, 2014 But a smiley in every post I make is my calling card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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