Assassin’s Creed Shadows Now Up to 3 Million Players, but Still No Sales Figure From Ubisoft

Assassin’s Creed Shadows has seen implicit 3 cardinal players since launch, Ubisoft has announced.

The subordinate milestone comes 7 days aft Shadows launched connected May 20, and is up from the 2 cardinal reported connected time two, surpassing the launches of some Origins and Odyssey.

Other stats reported by Ubisoft contiguous were already revealed by IGN’s sum of an interior email successful which the institution contextualized Shadows’ opening play performance, saying it’s amended compared to Origins and Odyssey alternatively than the “perfect storm” 2020’s Valhalla launched into.

Shadows saw the 2nd highest time 1 income gross successful Assassin's Creed franchise history, down lone Valhalla, the biggest Ubisoft time 1 ever connected the PlayStation Store, and has seen implicit 40 cardinal hours played truthful far.

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 suffered a fig of high-profile flops, layoffs, workplace closures, and crippled cancellations successful the tally up to Assassin's Creed Shadows' release.

Things got truthful atrocious astatine Ubisoft that its founding Guillemot household was reportedly exploring talks with Chinese mega-corp Tencent and different investors connected a buyout woody that would fto it sphere power of the company's intelligence property. So, the video crippled satellite is watching Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ aboriginal show intimately for signs of its occurrence — oregon failure.

There’s besides a batch of attraction connected Shadows’ Steam concurrents, which are being compared to those of different triple-A single-player games that precocious released, arsenic good arsenic erstwhile Assassin’s Creed games connected Valve’s platform.

Shadows became the most-played Assassin's Creed crippled ever connected Steam implicit the play with 64,825 highest concurrent players, though it’s worthy noting that it was the archetypal crippled successful the bid to motorboat day-one determination since 2018's Odyssey. BioWare’s single-player RPG Dragon Age: The Veilguard saw a highest of 89,418 players connected Valve’s platform.

It’s hard to marque a telephone connected whether Shadows is below, meeting, oregon exceeding Ubisoft’s expectations without knowing what those expectations were, a gross figure, oregon a income figure.

Money talks, of course, and irrespective of subordinate numbers and engagement, it volition beryllium gross brought successful by Assassin’s Creed Shadows that determines the destiny of not conscionable the game, but Ubisoft itself. We whitethorn not get a wide representation of that until Ubisoft's adjacent fiscal study successful the coming months.

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