14 DAY TRIAL // Hot on the heels of the launch of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Ubisoft has once again promised that next year will also see another title in the extremely popular franchise, which will expand it even further.
Assassin’s Creed is currently Ubisoft's best selling franchise, and its newest game, Brotherhood, has just sold over 1 million copies in less than a week in Europe.
As you can imagine, the French company is more than pleased with the new title, especially since it arrived just one year after Assassin’s Creed 2.
According to the company, the franchise is on course to sell over 30 million units by the end of 2011, when a new game, the fourth one in the regular series, will be released.
Ubisoft's CEO, Yves Guillemot, revealed before the launch of Brotherhood that a new game will be launched next year, and now, through the voice of Geoffroy Sardin, chief of marketing and sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the company has confirmed it once more.
“Yes, Yves [Guillemot, Ubisoft CEO] mentioned it last week in our financials – and more details will be forthcoming. But what I can say is that next year we will have another big Assassin’s Creed game.”
Expect to see a multiplayer mode in the next Assassin’s Creed game, as the Ubisoft exec says that the this is one of the main reasons why Brotherhood is selling so well and reaching out to gamers that haven't experienced any of the previous titles in the series.
“Apart from the big marketing campaign that we started a few week ago, and which continues over the coming weeks, the main reason the game has succeeded is that we transformed the brand from a single player one to a multiplayer one,” Sardin commented.
“The multiplayer mode attracts new players – when we track who is playing the multiplayer we can se they are new to the franchise,” explained Sardin.
“It is the first time we have added such a big multiplayer mode to an action franchise – but we’re seeing people play a lot and regularly, so clearly they do enjoy it. The activity on forums is very happy.
All in all, Ubisoft is banking big on Assassin’s Creed, so expect more new features to be implemented in the future title, in order to attract more new gamers into the franchise.