Ass Creed Pre-orders Insane

Especially on PS3 - are 360 owners defecting?

Ubisoft’s pre-order figures for Assassin’s Creed II are up 80 per cent from the original title, leading the developer to announce it expects the sequel to sell around 15-25 per cent more than the first game in the series.

Interestingly, a report from analyst OTX notes that many people who are pre-ordering the game for the PS3 own the original on Xbox. Apparently, 15 per cent of gamers who plan to buy ACII on the PS3 have an Xbox copy of the original, compared with only seven percent of those who bought the first game on PS3 planning to get the sequel on the 360.

OTX expects this state of affairs to be echoed with Modern Warfare 2 and other multiformat games, leading to the speculation that 360 owners are ‘defecting’ to Sony’s console.

Spurious? Confusing? You tell us. In the meantime, why not watch the first part of the live action series Assassin’s Creed: Lineage over on YouTube. It’s really rather good.