14 DAY TRIAL // Ubisoft has just posted its Q1 2014 sales report, showing an impressive 374 percent growth year-over-year and demonstrating the remarkable performance of its brand new IP, Watch Dogs.
In spite of the controversy surrounding the title's stripped-down visuals since its initial reveal during E3 2013, then the discovery of the very same assets that made the game look great present in the game files but simply turned off, players flocked en masse to play the open-world adventure game, with Ubisoft reporting that the game sold well over 8 million units.
The first quarter of the 2014-2015 fiscal year was a remarkable boost over last year's performance, with the company registering $490 / €360 million in total sales, as compared to the $103 / €76 million clocked in for the same period last year.
The reported figure is also significantly higher than the company's projected target of $421 / €310 million, and Ubisoft claimed that over half of its revenue came from PlayStation 4 and Xbox One content.
The company also revealed its conservative projection for the year's second quarter, during which no major games will be released, and is looking forward to see how its business will perform when Far Cry 4, Assassin's Creed Unity and its other potential blockbusters ship.