Ubisoft’s The Division has 9.5M registered player accounts

Ubisoft’s latest Tom Clancy shooter has caught on with a large crowd.

The Division has 9.5 million registered player accounts, according to the publisher’s fiscal 2016 financial report. That helped the company beat its revenues and earnings targets for the 12 month period ending March 31. The Division, which is a military shooter with a heavy emphasis on connected multiplayer, also gave a huge boost to the company’s efforts to retain players and keep them spending money on digital goods. Ubisoft’s digital revenues represented 32 percent of its total, which is a record for the company. This is a strong sign that the French game maker still has the chops to launch a major new franchise in the $99.6 billion gaming industry, an encouraging trend as the publisher diversifies its portfolio beyond annual releases of Assassin’s Creed.