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- May 26, 201490% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
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- May 27, 201490% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Watch Dogs confirmed for 27th May launch ñ except for Wii U
- Ubisoft confirmed on 6 March 2014 that Watch Dogs would release worldwide on 27 May 2014 for PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One[1][4][5]
- The Wii U version had no date; it later released on 18 November 2014 in North America[1][2][5]
- The game had been delayed from a pre-Christmas next-gen launch so the team could "polish and fine tune every detail"[1]
- The date came after a leak on Xbox.com; PS3 and PS4 buyers get 60 minutes of exclusive extra gameplay[4][5]
Notable features
- An action-adventure game played from a third-person perspective, developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft, the first in the Watch Dogs series; it runs on Disrupt, an engine Ubisoft Montreal built for it[2]
- Players control Aiden Pearce, a hacker and vigilante in a fictionalised Chicago run by the ctOS system[1][2][5]
- Aiden's smartphone controls trains and traffic lights, infiltrates security systems, jams phones and reads pedestrians' private information and empties their bank accounts; system hacking is played as puzzles[2]
- The open-world Chicago is free-roaming on foot or by vehicle, with a day-night cycle and dynamic weather that change how non-player characters behave[2]
- Online multiplayer takes up to eight players in co-operative and competitive modes, and a player can be hacked by others, leaving the target to find the perpetrator[2]
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- [1]90%hexus.net/gaming/news/industry/67125-watch-dogs-confirmed-27th-may-launch-except-wii-uhexus.net· Posted Jun 15, 2017· Starts May 26, 2014 ✓· Ends May 27, 2014 ✓· 0% of score
Happened as dated, per hexus.net: "…h Dogs senior produced told them a 2014 ship date for the next-gen Nintendo console is still a "poss…"
- [2]80%Watch Dogs (video game) - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org· Added Sep 14, 2026· 100% of score
Wikipedia confirms the simultaneous May 27, 2014 launch on PC/PS3/PS4/Xbox 360/Xbox One, while noting the Wii U version was delayed roughly six months to November 18-21, 2014 - consistent with the pin's title flagging the Wii U exception.
- [3]90%Watch Dogs release date announced for everything except Wii Ugamespot.com· Published Mar 6, 2014· 0% of score
GameSpot's own headline and March 6, 2014 publish date - "Watch Dogs release date announced for everything except Wii U" - mirror the pin's title and the May 27, 2014 release confirmed elsewhere, though the page itself returned an access error and could not be fetched directly.
- [4]85%Ubisoft Confirm Watch Dogs Release Datevortez.net· Published Mar 6, 2014· 0% of score
Vortez confirms Ubisoft's announcement that "That date is the 27th May 2014," matching the pin's stored release window across PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
- [5]92%Ubisoft Reveals Watch Dogs Release Date - Press Releasespong.com· Published Mar 6, 2014· 0% of score
Spong's press release, dated the same day as Ubisoft's own March 6, 2014 announcement, states "Watch Dogs will be released worldwide on May 27, 2014," matching the pin's stored May 26-28 window.
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