Pre-order numbers for the forthcoming Ubisoft priority release, Assassin’s Creed II, are up 80 per cent on numbers for the original game, according to the publisher’s CEO Yves Guillemot. That is set against an expectation that the company will sell around 15-25 per cent higher total sales of the sequel, although he refused to be drawn on specifics speaking in a conference call to investors. By contrast pre-orders of Avatar remain relatively low, although not wholly dissimilar to those for the publisher’s prior movie tie-in King Kong. Read more…

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Assassin’s Creed II pre-orders up 80% on original

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