{"id":6065,"date":"2010-05-19T00:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"assassin-s-creed-ii-sells-9-million-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/6065-assassin-s-creed-ii-sells-9-million-units","title":{"rendered":"Assassin\u2019s Creed II sells 9 million units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the video game industry, a AAA game is considered commercially very successful when it sells around 4 million copies. That makes Assassin&rsquo;s Creed II super-duper successful, having sold double that since launch.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, Publisher Ubisoft registered a total loss of $54 million over the year. This is in stark contrast with Ubisoft&rsquo;s previous fiscal year, where it reported a whopping $85 million net profit.<\/p>\n<p>Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot blames the recession, but doesn&rsquo;t offer an explanation as to how companies like Sega, Capcom, Konami and Nintendo managed to turn a profit.<\/p>\n<p>Ubisoft is not alone though, and Sony, THQ and EA also registered losses this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?5931-Assassin-s-Creed-II-sells-9-million-Ubisoft-still-struggling&amp;p=224129#post224129\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Assassin&#8217;s Creed II<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubisoft still posts $54 million annual loss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}