executives predicted over 6.3 million copies in overall sales. The day it was released, Watch Dogs sold the most copies of any Ubisoft title in a 24-hour period. It was the bestselling new IP ever in the United Kingdom in its first week (beating Assassin's Creed III record by more than 17 percent), and was the seventeenth-largest game launch of all time in the UK. Most sales were for PlayStation 4, whose hardware sales increased by 94 percent because of Watch Dogs. After the first week, four million copies of the game had been sold. Watch Dogs sold 63,000 copies of the PlayStation 4 version and 31,000 for PlayStation 3 in its Japanese debut. By July 2014, the game had sold over eight million copies. It was the biggest video-game launch of the year in Britain until Destiny was released in September, and the third-bestselling game during the second week of that month. Nine million copies had been shipped worldwide in October, two-thirds of which were for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. According to Ubisoft's sales figures, Watch Dogs had sold ten million copies by the fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2014. Awards Adaptations and sequels In June 2013, Variety reported that Ubisoft Motion Pictures was planning a film adaptation. That August, Sony Pictures Entertainment and New Regency were announced to be partnering with Ubisoft Motion Pictures on the project. Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese were later commissioned to write the film. A sequel, Watch Dogs 2, was released in November 2016, followed by Watch Dogs: Legion in October 2020. An animated series is also in development. Notes References Further reading External links 2014 video games Action-adventure games Advertising and marketing controversies Asymmetrical multiplayer video games Augmented reality in fiction Fiction about photography Fiction about corporate warfare Cybernetted society in fiction Cyberpunk video games Gangs in fiction Hacking video games Malware in fiction Video games about mass surveillance Multiplayer and single-player video games Neo-noir video games Nintendo Network games Organized crime video games Open-world video games Parkour video games PlayStation 3 games PlayStation 4 games Postcyberpunk Video games set in prison Propaganda in fiction Science fiction video games Stadia games Stealth video games Ubisoft games Video games about revenge Video games developed in Canada Video games set in 2012 Video games set in 2013 Video games set in 2014 Video games set in Chicago Video games set in