{"id":86854,"date":"2016-03-10T15:30:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T13:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=86854"},"modified":"2016-03-10T15:54:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T13:54:29","slug":"the-division-is-the-fast-selling-game-in-ubisofts-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/86854-the-division-is-the-fast-selling-game-in-ubisofts-history","title":{"rendered":"The Division is the fastest selling game in Ubisoft&#8217;s history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ubisoft has just announced that\u00a0<em>Tom Clancy\u2019s The Division<\/em> has sold more copies in the first 24 hours\u00a0than any previous title from Ubisoft.<\/p>\n<p>David Polfeldt, Managing Director at Ubisoft\u2019s Massive studio, had this to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We\u2019re extremely happy with <em>The Division<\/em>\u2019s record-breaking launch.\u00a0<em>The Division<\/em> really represents Ubisoft at its best, with the Massive team and all the teams at our associate studios working at maximum capacity in highly-productive collaboration to deliver an incredibly innovative and entertaining new game.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Additionally, <em>The Division<\/em>\u00a0set records for total digital full game sales in one\u00a0day across PC, Xbox One and PS4.<\/p>\n<p>Including <em>The Division<\/em>, Ubisoft has three of the\u00a0most successful new IP\u00a0launches within the games industry.\u00a0The other rest of the top four launches includes <em>Destiny<\/em>, <em>Watch_Dogs<\/em> and <em>Assassin\u2019s Creed<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Co-Founder and CEO of Ubisoft,\u00a0Yves Guillemot, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The launch of <em>The Division<\/em> is a tremendous achievement for Ubisoft, and demonstrates our unrivalled capacity to create fantastic new game brands and transform them into entertainment blockbusters. This is a momentous day for Ubisoft, but more importantly it marks the start of millions of players\u2019 enduring engagement in <em>The Division<\/em>\u2019s game world, which we are confident they will love.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With\u00a0<em>The Division<\/em> shattering sales\u00a0records have you considered playing it? Or are you waiting for the price of the game to drop in due time?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heypoorplayer.com\/2016\/03\/09\/the-division-shatters-ubisoft-sales-records\/\" target=\"_blank\">HeyPoorPlayer<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>More On The Division<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to Tips on how to get the most out of The Division\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/86818-tips-on-how-to-get-the-most-out-of-the-division.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Tips on how to get the most out of The Division<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to What Tom Clancy\u2019s The Division does well, and what it doesn\u2019t\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/86474-what-tom-clancys-the-division-does-well-and-what-it-doesnt.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">What Tom Clancy\u2019s The Division does well, and what it doesn\u2019t<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to A 60 fps trailer demonstrating The Division for PC\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/86532-a-60-fps-trailer-demonstrating-the-division-for-pc.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">A 60 fps trailer demonstrating The Division for PC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubisoft&#8217;s back at it again, and it&#8217;s up to Tom Clancy&#8217;s The Division whether that&#8217;s a good or bad thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":86856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1969,15397,1239,1853,241,10299,11842,733,3068,10065],"class_list":["post-86854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-news-2","tag-pc","tag-playstation-4","tag-playstation4","tag-sales","tag-the-division","tag-tom-clancys-the-division","tag-ubisoft","tag-ubisoft-massive","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86854","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\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86858,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86854\/revisions\/86858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}