Watch Dogs Has The Biggest New IP Launch In UK

<p>Sales numbers from the UK video game market have revealed that Watch Dogs has set a new record for biggest new IP launch&period; Ubisoft&&num;8217&semi;s open world hacking game beat the previous record holder&comma; Rockstar&&num;8217&semi;s  L&period;A&period; Noire&comma; by 50&percnt;&period; In fact&comma; Watch Dogs is the 17th biggest launch in UK video game history&period; Only games from the Call of Duty&comma; Battlefield&comma; Fifa and Grand Theft Auto franchises have sold better in their first week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Watch Dogs has benefited from a huge marketing campaign in the country&period; Sony have been very involved in advertising the game in order to promote Watch Dogs&&num;8217&semi; PlayStation exclusive content&period; The gamble seems to have paid off&period; The vast majority of the game&&num;8217&semi;s physical sales were on the PS4 which helped the platform sell 94&percnt; more than it did the week before&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Yet Watch Dogs isn&&num;8217&semi;t the only success story this week&period; Mario Kart 8 is the Wii U&&num;8217&semi;s biggest UK launch so far and is the second highest Mario Kart launch to date&period; Unsurprisingly&comma; Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s kart racer has been an incredibly powerful system seller&comma; helping the Wii U achieve a 666&percnt; increase in sales compared with the week before&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eurogamer&period;net&sol;articles&sol;2014-06-02-watch-dogs-is-the-biggest-new-ip-launch-in-the-uk-ever">Eurogamer<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;