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Assassin's Creed sells 2.5 million units in a month

NyffTotal90 | December 15, 2007 | News | Playstation 3 XBOX 360 
Assasin's Creed has been flying off the shelves and has sold 2.5 million copies of the game in just under a month. Ubisoft had estimated that they'd sell 3 million units by March 08, but now that prediction has been upped to a whopping 5 million units.
Ubisoft has today announced that its new IP Assassin's Creed has recorded worldwide sales of more than two and a half million units and is the fastest-selling new video game intellectual property in the US ever.

Because of the game's better than expected performance, Ubisoft has now upped its sales forecast for the game. The publisher had forecast sales of three million units by the end of its fiscal year (March 31, 2008), but now estimates sales of at least five million units.

"With the exceptional performance of Assassin's Creed, the fastest-selling new video game intellectual property in the US ever, Ubisoft's teams have once again demonstrated their expertise in creating and promoting major brands. These regular-sequel franchises are a source of very high profitability both in the short and long term. Drawing on its strong internal development capacities, Ubisoft is currently in an ideal position to continue to develop numerous new creations - an essential condition for winning market share and ensuring strong growth going forward," said Yves Guillemot, Chief Executive Officer of Ubisoft.

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  • 2 thumbs!
    Supernouva | December 15, 2007
    Assassin's Creed is a great game and it's good to see that some 3 million other gamers think so too.
  • -3 thumbs!
    HBK619 | December 15, 2007
    While I had high hopes for this game, initial reviews made me push it down my 'to buy' list, but millions of consumers are more likely to be right than a few critics. However, the same could be said for Halo 3, if you just looked at the consumer demand, you might get the impression that it's a good game...
    • 1 thumbs!
      Storm | December 15, 2007
      This is better than Halo 3, in terms of a single player experience, at least. But those are two different genres. The reviews are quite honest, but come on..repetitiveness, too short? Does no one know WTF a Action/Adventure game is about?
  • 1 thumbs!
    Dance Floor Killah | December 15, 2007
    I'm planning on getting AC with any Christmas money I get. Walmart.com keeps selling out of copies online.
  • 1 thumbs!
    Subzer0 | December 15, 2007
    This is a good accomplishment for Ubisoft. I wonder which console sold more though.
  • -1 thumbs!
    Final Blade | December 15, 2007
    Yeah Congrats, i mean its one of the few multi-platform games to actually be very good on the PS3. I still need to get this though.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Underated | December 15, 2007
    Ahhh, it's good to know this game's doing well, I should be getting it at Christmas.
  • 0 thumbs!
    SvR2008 | December 17, 2007
    Holy crap!

    I didn't even know there were that many PS3s sold.
    • 1 thumbs!
      SS4Gogeta | December 18, 2007
      What do you mean? You do know that AC is on the PS3, PC, DS, 360 platforms right?

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