Assassin’s Creed Shadows Crosses 1 Million Players on Launch Day, Ubisoft Says

Assassin’s Creed Shadows saw implicit 1 cardinal players connected motorboat day, Ubisoft has announced.

The crippled released connected PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S connected March 20, and conscionable earlier 4pm successful Canada, Ubisoft took to societal media to accidental it had crossed the 1 cardinal subordinate mark.

“It's not adjacent 4pm present successful Canada and Assassin's Creed Shadows has already passed 1 cardinal players!” Ubisoft said.

“Thank YOU from the bottommost of our hearts for joining this escapade successful Feudal Japan. We are beyond excited to commencement this travel with you!”

While 1 cardinal players connected motorboat time is an awesome achievement, it’s hard to gauge occurrence erstwhile Ubisoft itself hasn’t offered a income fig oregon so a income target.

What we bash cognize is that Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the top-selling video crippled globally connected Steam close now. Valve’s illustration sorts products by revenue, truthful we tin accidental Ubisoft’s crippled is presently bringing successful much wealth than immoderate different connected the platform.

We besides person aboriginal days Steam concurrent figures. According to authoritative stats from Valve’s platform, Assassin’s Creed Shadows deed a highest subordinate concurrent fig of 41,412 connected Steam connected motorboat day. Assassin’s Creed Shadows released connected a Thursday, truthful it is expected that that fig volition turn arsenic we caput into the game’s archetypal play connected sale. We’ll person a amended representation of its show connected Steam adjacent week and successful the weeks ahead. Neither Sony nor Microsoft marque subordinate numbers public.

For immoderate context, BioWare’s single-player RPG Dragon Age: The Veilguard launched connected Steam connected Thursday, October 31, 2024, and saw a highest of 70,414 players connected Valve’s platform.

There is tremendous unit connected Assassin's Creed Shadows to bash good for Ubisoft globally aft a fig of delays and the income nonaccomplishment of past year’s Star Wars Outlaws. Indeed, Ubisoft has suffered a fig of high-profile flops, layoffs, workplace closures, and crippled cancellations successful the tally up to Assassin's Creed Shadows' release.

Assassin's Creed Shadows has besides endured a fig of controversies, not slightest successful Japan. Yesterday, IGN confirmed that Ubisoft had softly released a day-one spot for Assassin’s Creed Shadows that made a fig of important changes seemingly successful effect to interest from immoderate Japanese politicians astir in-game temples and shrines.

In a singular speech this week, Japanese person and subordinate of the House of Councillors of Japan, Hiroyuki Kada, raised the contented of Assassin’s Creed Shadows successful an authoritative authorities meeting, and Shigeru Ishiba, the Prime Minister of Japan, responded.

On Steam astatine least, Assassin's Creed Shadows is going down precise good with players. It has a 'very positive' idiosyncratic reappraisal rating, with 82% of the adjacent 4,000 idiosyncratic reviews marked arsenic positive. IGN’s Assassin’s Creed Shadows reappraisal returned an 8/10. We said: “By sharpening the edges of its existing systems, Assassin’s Creed Shadows creates 1 of the champion versions of the open-world benignant it’s been honing for the past decade.”

Ubisoft’s founding Guillemot household and largest shareholder person reportedly been exploring talks with Chinese mega-corp Tencent and different investors connected a buyout woody that would fto them sphere control.

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].