And while Tom Clancy’s The Division may not be quite as mainstream as Call of Duty or Fortnite, it is undoubtedly one of gaming’s most popular franchises. Ubisoft are hoping that The Division Heartland, which is being made in parallel to new The Division 2 content, will be the key to expanding The Division‘s player base.Īmazingly, The Division franchise already has a community of over 40 million gamers. It’s likely development for this new game simply proceeded in secret, though we have yet to learn how long it had started production and if this is the same size and scale as its predecessors.On 6th May 2021, The Division fans rejoiced as Ubisoft announced development of a free-to-play spin-off, Tom Clancy’s The Division Heartland.
While it would seem that Ubisoft lost interest in Tom Clancy’s The Division franchise, the gap between Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 and Tom Clancy’s The Division Heartland is roughly the same three years. They were also announced to have started work on a still unnamed Star Wars open world game. Instead Massive started work on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, announced in last year’s E3 and scheduled for release this year. Because of the disappointing performance of Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, Ubisoft did not announce any new games for the franchise in the immediate future. The company cited increased competition from other similar games at the time, which would have included Destiny 2, Apex Legends, and Overwatch, among others.īoth games were developed by Swedish studio Massive Entertainment, this first original project with Ubisoft after being acquired from Vivendi in 2008. Ubisoft revealed that the title did perform below expectations, and below what the original game had sold. Launching in 2019 for Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and also Stadia, Ubisoft disclosed that both titles sold more than10 million units in total but did not provide total sales figures.
However, Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 would not be as much of a success as the original. In its first 24 hours it sold more copies than any other game in the publisher’s history, and already earned as much as $ 330 million within its first five days.
It broke the record for first week launch for a new franchise, as well as multiple company sales records. Tom Clancy’s The Division, an online only multiplayer third-person shooter, launched in 2016 for Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, and was an industry wide commercial and critical success.
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