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Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Opening Sales 60 Percent Down On Assassin’s Creed III In The UK

Dixons said that “GTAV has completely blown everything away.” Sales went downward of every games other than GTAV. As we all know GTAV is the best game and it blown all other big games in the industry. Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag sales went down 60 percent than the last year’s release Assassin’s Creed III in the UK. Just like that sales of Battlefield 4 also gone down to 69 percent when we compared it with 2011′s Battlefield 3.

dieforgame3821d ago

Just because GTAV is awesome! :)

vishmarx3821d ago

or simply people are waiting for the next-gen version?
its one of the few decent launch games

beepbopadoobop3821d ago

I know im certainly waiting for the next gen version =)

vishmarx3821d ago

im gonna be upgrading.
$10 is hardly anything

Adexus3821d ago

It'll be releasing on another 4 platforms in a couple of weeks, sales should go up a bit then.

TopDudeMan3821d ago

That's how I see it. That 60-70 percent of people are holding out for the PS4/XBOne versions

moparful993821d ago

Agreed. I know that I am. I have AC4:BF pre ordered for my PS4 and have been fighting the urge to get it on my PS3..

Fishy Fingers3821d ago (Edited 3821d ago )

They didn't have next gen consoles releasing 3 weeks later last year. But still, BF4 didn't have the hype BF3 did and I think a lot of people are burnt out on AC.

lsujester3821d ago

While I'm getting Black Flag because I loved the ship battle stuff from AC3, I totally agree about the burning out. This is a series that really doesn't need to be an every year release. It's just not different enough to me to warrant a yearly purchase.

Depending on how Watch Dogs turns out, maybe they should consider alternating the years on those releases or something. I don't know.

GribbleGrunger3821d ago

Couldn't it be because a lot of consumers are waiting to buy it on the next gen consoles?

JackISbacK3821d ago

yeah next gen is also a reason but the hype ac 3 was able to made was not that strong with this game ,yeah it is an very popular game and deserves a way better place then ac3 and yeah it is one of the best ac game ever created ,best story ,best gameplay and best graphics ,yeah we will see a big tide of sales when game will release on next gen but past dissapointment and gta 5 can be alittle bit of reason for this game ,but this game is also agood competition for gta 5 and tlou ,it is one of the most amazing sanbox every created,and it deserves better place but from some experts say that it can be the 3rd most selling game of the year after cod and gta 5,and i think those people can be pretty right.

Seafort3821d ago

Yup will be buying the PC version which doesn't launch till 22nd November so another 2 weeks wait.

I'm used to it though as Ubisoft always launch the PC version last.

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Leaked Early Prototype Footage Reveals Development Stages Of Several Assassin's Creed Games

Prototype footage from several of Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed titles has leaked, revealing early stages of their development.

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The Best Pirate-Themed Video Games (Not Skull and Bones)

BY JASON MONROE: The very best pirate-themed video games that you should play instead of the disappointment that is Skull and Bones.

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thorstein53d ago

PoE: Deadfire, Unless you have a or PS5 or an SSD don't bother, loading times are insane. A minute and a half to go into a room to investigate a desk in an inn and then an additional 1 1/2 minutes to leave the room and then load to leave the inn???

And they never fixed it.

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Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag vs Skull and Bones Video Comparison Is an Eye-Opener

Ubisoft has just released Skull and Bones on PC and consoles. And, from the looks of it, the game wasn’t received well by some gamers. Not only that but it appears that Skull and Bones can be worse than Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, a game that came out a decade ago.

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OtterX67d ago (Edited 67d ago )

I wanted a Black Flag sequel so bad. It's still my favorite AC entry. The fact that they ignored everything that we loved about that game in this "spiritual successor" is making me enjoy watching this game crash and burn quite a bit. Either do it right or don't do it at all. (I understand the legal binding they got themselves into with the Singapore government to release this game at all costs)

/grabs popcorn

isarai66d ago

My thing is, if the Singapore govt was forcing you to do it at all cost, why not make what people wanted? How did ubi delay it for 5yrs, then again for 1yr and not just make a similar experience to black flag? How do you spend so much time and make so little?

Chocoburger65d ago

Ubisoft did make a sequel, Assassin's Creed: Rogue. It has a short campaign, and its packed with filler side quests for upgrades, but it's still a decent time.

It released on the same day as Assassin's Creed: Unity, so it was mostly forgotten.

porkChop66d ago

11 years of development. Multiple restarts. All the while people have been saying they don't want some pirate game where you can't even get off your ship. 11 years of people telling Ubisoft all they want is a pirate game that's basically Black Flag without any of the assassin or animus stuff. Yet they still served up this trash that no one wanted, charged $70 for it, and had the balls to call it AAAA.

The Guillemot family honestly needs to be forced out of Ubisoft. They've doubled down on everything players don't like about their games, they want AI to create "rough drafts" of their stories rather than letting their writers do their jobs, and they literally do not give a shit what their playerbase actually wants. 5-6 years ago their stock was worth more than 4x what it's currently worth. The company is dying.

Jin_Sakai66d ago (Edited 66d ago )

What has happened to developers? How can you possible make a worse looking game 11 years later? It’s honestly mind boggling.

darksky65d ago

It's because the older developers were better at it. The new generation pass most of their exams by copying code from around the web so are not nearly as good at understanding what they are developing.

LucasRuinedChildhood65d ago (Edited 65d ago )

No, here's the truth:
https://www.channelnewsasia...
This was made in Singapore and it's the first game of this scale to be made there. Ubisoft would probably cancel it normally since it clearly wasn't shaping up well but they were getting government grants to try build up the industry there.

Do you really think game developers are radically different than just 10 years ago? And this game has been development since Black Flag released.

Using one crap game to trash a whole industry of developers is stupid. It's like saying "Alien Colonial Marines proves that game developers suck now."

yeahokwhatever65d ago

i know this to be at least part of the puzzle from experience.

senorfartcushion65d ago

It's the multiplayer aspect of the world. MP games look worse than single player games, period. Every comparison we keep seeing are for games like Gotham Knights, Suicide Squad and Skull and Bones. They all have multiplayer focusses.

SyntheticForm66d ago

God, I'd love a remake of Black Flag.

Yi-Long66d ago

Enough has been said about this game already. The gaming world shrugged when it was announced so many years ago, and instead of listening to all the criticisms from the community back then, Ubi just sailed on and kept making a game nobody really wanted. What a waste of money and effort.

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