Today, Ubisoft
announced that the hotly anticipated title
Watch Dogs -- available for PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One across the major Western territories -- has broken its record for most copies of a game sold in its first 24 hours on sale.
The company calculated this using its own internal metrics; third party sales data has yet to be released.
This is good news for the company -- it
is relying on
Watch Dogs to help pick up slumping sales moving into its next fiscal year. With the help of
Watch Dogs, the current fiscal year "should see a return to double-digit profitability," said CEO Yves Guillemot, alongside its most recent yearly financial results. "The year’s performance will be led by five games --
Assassin’s Creed Unity, Far Cry 4, Just Dance, The Crew, and
Watch Dogs," Guillemot added.
Creative director Jonathan Morin
recently spoke to Gamasutra about the challenges of developing the open-world game, saying, "You need to define something that is not just a gimmick, but can deliver new gameplay in the entire game... The core challenge is always, 'Let's find something that will change the game.'"
