Assassin's Creed II has sold 9m units

By Tom Bramwell Published 19 May, 2010

Brotherhood getting multiplayer beta.

Ubisoft has revealed that Assassin's Creed II sold "nearly nine million units" during its last financial year, which ended on 31st March 2010.

The company also said that the next instalment in the series, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, will be preceded by a multiplayer beta ahead of its autumn release.

More details on that should be made available at E3 in June. For now we know that multiplayer sees players control the Templars.

When Assassin's Creed II was officially announced last April, Ubisoft said its predecessor had sold eight million units, suggesting that the second instalment has now outperformed it.

The publisher has previously said the series was a trilogy, but Brotherhood - which follows ACII protagonist Ezio Auditore - has been described as an extra episode rather than a full release.

Company boss Yves Guillemot's stated intention for Ubisoft to ship new instalments in its major franchises more frequently, and for them to include multiplayer.

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  • DerFlange #1 2 years ago

    could have sold 100 billion if not for DRM

  • DoctorFouad #2 2 years ago

    9 millions for assassins creed 2 ! wow !

    15 millions(or i dont know how much) for call of duty modern warfare 2

    16 million (or i dont know how much) for GTA 4


    and only 3 millions for GOW3, little big planet, uncharted 2, killzone,....etc

    Now I understand why publishers are all going multiplatform like crazy this generation...
    Edited by 1 at 19/05/10 @ 08:36

  • r4z0rbl4d3 #3 2 years ago

    AC II is a brilliant game, I'm happy for them. Can't wait for Brotherhood and AC III!

  • The_Inquisitor #4 2 years ago

    The multiplayer is an interesting idea, even though my first reaction was scepticism. Nobody wants just another boring, tacked on multiplayer mode, especially at the expense of the single player experience. But it would be interesting to see how it works for a game without guns... unless the next game in the series has guns, in which case... noooooooo!

  • GamesConnoisseur #5 2 years ago

    Multi platform model is for the discerning publishers!

    Wow... A lotta heck more than I would have assumed and so doing a good business for Ubi in their most difficult year in term of relationship with gamers. DRM and anti piracy measures.

  • M4RV #6 2 years ago

    Am I the only one fearful that AC may as well become a yearly outing, just like the CoD series...?! :\

  • markyHD #7 2 years ago

    I fear the same, yearly outings. I have a horrible feeling some nob will decide that assassins creed 3 will be set in the future, with premonitions instead of memories, and laser beams and shit.

    Fucking robots always win
    Edited by 1 at 19/05/10 @ 08:51

  • TruWari3r #8 2 years ago

    So which game will have the beta?

  • bad09 #9 2 years ago

    I hope only a few of those sales are from the PC version. Ubiscum need to fail hard on PC it's the only way they'll learn.

  • ChthonicEcho #10 2 years ago

    @The_Inquisitor

    The entire idea of Brotherhood is to add multiplayer to the AC experience. It's not tacked on; it is its selling point.

  • INSOMANiAC #11 2 years ago

    Completed ACII just last night and it is one hell of a game, very ambitious and manages to pull it off, looking forward to the third though its difficult to see how they'll top that one.

    just pray they dont 'splinter cell' or 'prince of persia' it and dumb it down for the intermongs.

  • lssl17 #12 2 years ago

    Mark my words: the third "proper" instalment in the series will be set in modern times, in a sprawling US city.

    Why? Because Desmond's abilities in the animus now bleed through into his real self. Kinda like how Neo was able to use his powers outside of the matrix.

  • ardamillo #13 2 years ago

    Big fan of the series, not all that excited about AC multiplayer though

  • The_Inquisitor #14 2 years ago

    @ ChthonicEcho

    Oh thanks for clearing that up.
    How annoying that hardly any information about the game is known, because that is an intriguing prospect.

  • makeamazing #15 2 years ago

    I am also a big fan of the AC series and not fussed about MP... i like be a lone player :) hopefully the SP in brotherhood is not just an afterthought (and please no "play for 1 gazzillion hours" to get a trophy please)

  • trubadman #16 2 years ago

    @ lssl17
    Interesting thought

  • INSOMANiAC #17 2 years ago

    lssl17, yes but at the end of the second one that god like woman says there are several other temples he must visit, presumably from other time periods therefore I expect the third game to be a combination of modern day and another time period.

  • darth_paul #18 2 years ago

    i've heard they "Shipped" 9 millions, not "Sold"... could be wrong