$300 million, gross!
The Divisionshares its DNA with a lot of Ubisoft games but it is technically not a sequel and it isn’t exactly based on existing property (despite the “Tom Clancy’s” in the title). That makes it a “new IP.”
And this new IP went beyondbreaking Ubisoft’s day-one salesrecords by grossing $330 million (worldwide, physical and digitial estimation) and “ongoing record sell-through sales” en route to becoming the best-selling new franchise in its first five days of existence.
Ubisoft also boasts a 1.2 million peak concurrent user count andThe Division‘s constant place in the top five (and sometimes the top, period) viewed game on Twitch.
All of which is incredibly surprising tome, about-games writer, whose own myopia left me thinking folks weren’t particularly excited for this game. I guess hype didn’t cool from a few years back, or Ubisoft marketed the shit out of it and I don’t see ads anywhere? MaybeDestinysimply already proved console players do want to play MMOs as long as they’re polished and don’t look likeWorld of Warcraft.
