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Shadows launched on consoles and PC last week, and surpassed two million players in two days, according to an Ubisoft announcement published over the weekend, which it noted was higher than both Origins and Odyssey.

According to further data seen by VGC, Shadows delivered the second-highest Day 1 sales revenue in the franchise's history, behind only Valhalla.

Notably, it did so launching in March, when other series entries arrived during the more lucrative Thanksgiving season, and did not benefit from the pandemic boost enjoyed by Valhalla.

Shadows marked Ubisoft's best-ever Day 1 launch on the PlayStation digital store, was the most wish-listed Ubisoft title of all time, and generated over 11 million hours watched on Twitch — the strongest start for any recent Ubisoft title, including Valhalla.

Significantly, PC activations represented around 27% of total activations, with Steam playing "a significant role" in that performance.

Assassin's Creed Shadows is the first major Ubisoft game to release day one on Steam since 2019. Previously, the publisher prioritized its own digital store, as well as the Epic Games Store, at launch.
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[FalsettoVibe]

Well, there it is.

 

[Trekinspace88]

It's a great game. Glad it's doing well.

 

[nemiroff]

But, but the CCU

 

[Represent.]

Great news. This means the Intergalactic cry babies will have less than zero impact on that game as well. Same goes for Ghosts of Yotei.

 

[Thief1987]

This rush of "journalists" to damage control for ubislop doesn't look suspicious at all

 

[Kurotri]

35 hours in. Let me say, without providing a huge wall of text (I might do that when I'm finished ), that they 100% deserve this success.

They cooked, as the kids say. Great game.

 

[nial]

It was never going to beat the single best performing game on the series that was a cross generation, launch title for new consoles in the holiday season.

 

[Represent.]

This rush of "journalists" to damage control for ubislop doesn't look suspicious at all

Ah yes, reporting sales is now damage control - Get some new material

 

[iQuasarLV]

According to further data seen by VGC...

Where are these data sources?!

 

[Killer8]

Significantly, PC activations represented around 27% of total activations, with Steam playing "a significant role" in that performance.

This is probably the most interesting data point from this story as it shows that the people saying the series is much more popular on console were correct.

The game is doing absolutely fine. No, it won't save Ubi after a string of failures, but it's baffling how emotionally invested people are in seeing it fail.

 

[GHG]

But, but the CCU

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Significantly, PC activations represented around 27% of total activations, with Steam playing "a significant role" in that performance.

 

[Luipadre]

But the steam numbers man... i was lied to

 

[mckmas8808]

Great news. This means the Intergalactic cry babies will have less than zero impact on that game as well. Same goes for Ghosts of Yotei.

 

[Gaiff]

How reliable is this?

 

[yogaflame]

It is possible that the Ps5 pro did the heavy lifting due to its very impressive Ps5 pro upgrade. But the question is , does the game have legs to turn into profit and save Ubisoft because it seems they need at least 7 million sales for this game due to allot of delays and bloated budget.

 

[roosnam1980]

yet again playstation saves another AAA franchise and publisher

 

[Luipadre]

This rush of "journalists" to damage control for ubislop doesn't look suspicious at all

you mad bro

 

[FalsettoVibe]

Just goes to show that normal gamers do not care about culture war BS.

 

[yogaflame]

Great news. This means the Intergalactic cry babies will have less than zero impact on that game as well. Same goes for Ghosts of Yotei.

I don't think so. Well Naoe looks much cuter than both protagonist from the games you mentioned.

 

[Achelexus]

Is it going to be like Veilguard where we'll see in like 3 months that it actually sold like 1/5 of what they expected?

Good lord, I hope I never have to hear about this game series again.

 

[SlimySnake]

It's a good game. They did Japan justice. They improved the visuals. They improved the combat. The mission structure. And its definitely a lot more fun to play than valhalla.

Well deserved. Thank god the hate campaign failed. I understand being upset over a black protagonist, but its just a game. Just bitch about it on forums and then play it. boycotts are silly.

 

[adamsapple]

The Chairman, scream if you're OK !

 

[PauloRoberto]

I believe i never seen so many efforts to show the success of a game, to be honest... i wish we could see informations like this from other games too.

 

[calico]

This is probably the most interesting data point from this story as it shows that the people saying the series is much more popular on console were correct.

25-30% on PC doesn't seem particularly out of the ordinary for a multiplatform game, which would make the Steam peak fairly reliable as an indicator.

Media spin is in overdrive right now, but I think this game is doing about half as well as Valhalla.

 

[yogaflame]

The very impressive Ps5 pro upgrade was the key to save the game, that made the wokeness negligible. I hope other developers will do the same to give there games a very impressive Ps5 pro upgrade. Can't wait too see DS2, GTA 6, Silent Hill F, MGS 3 remake, Doom Dark Ages, Wolverine, etc.

 

[Reave]

I'm not much of an AC fan anymore so I didn't buy it, but it's clear that the game is selling nicely and anyone still hunting for a loophole at this point should probably reconsider.

 

[Blitzkrieg!]

Not much here we didn't already know, though the PC metric is interesting. Funny that they would use the Twitch engagement metric when we know much of that is culture war driven.

 

[iQuasarLV]

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If steams peak was 61k and total pc performance was 27% of all sales. 0.27 * 61000 = ~226k activated copies. Far from the 2 million people playing.

 

[MMaRsu]

Is it going to be like Veilguard where we'll see in like 3 months that it actually sold like 1/5 of what they expected?

Good lord, I hope I never have to hear about this game series again.

You can click on ignore threads so you can ignore all the ac threads and we dont have to read these kinds of posts

 

[bender]

I believe i never seen so many efforts to show the success of a game, to be honest... i wish we could see informations like this from other games too.

Thank AJ Investments and Partners.

 

[MMaRsu]

If steams peak was 61k and total pc performance was 27% of all sales. 0.27 * 61000 = ~226k activated copies. Far from the 2 million people playing.

You know the game is on more platforms than just pc right?

 

[FrankWza]

DS2, GTA 6, Silent Hill F, MGS 3 remake, Doom Dark Ages, Wolverine,

 

[Blitzkrieg!]

If steams peak was 61k and total pc performance was 27% of all sales. 0.27 * 61000 = ~226k activated copies. Far from the 2 million people playing.

One of the worst attempts at doing math I've ever seen.

 

[semiconscious]

whatever happened to sales figures? as in, 'copies sold'?...

 

[Topher]

If steams peak was 61k and total pc performance was 27% of all sales. 0.27 * 61000 = ~226k activated copies. Far from the 2 million people playing.

Peak is not total number of players my man

 

[Kotaro]

All these PR and shilling, it's still 2 million 'players' in 3 days

 

[EtherLakes]

I was shocked how low quality this game is, im surprised its doing so well

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

How reliable is this?

This report is by Andy Robinson who has good credentials.

Chris Dring also has access to the same sales data seen by Andy and will share more in his podcast tomorrow.

 

[Gaiff]

The very impressive Ps5 pro upgrade was the key to save the game,

It is possible that the Ps5 pro did the heavy lifting due to its impressive very Ps5 pro upgrade.

 

[AJUMP23]

Ubi doesn't have to sell to Tencent now and that is good.

 

[yogaflame]

Ubi doesn't have to sell to Tencent now and that is good.

The question is will the sales number be enough?

 

[MMaRsu]

I was shocked how low quality this game is, im surprised its doing so well

Yeah the people playing all hate it

The game is great, what is low quality about it

You know what, nevermind

 

[Horseganador]

So about 70% is sold on consoles (well, on PS5...), we'll see if Ubi can get out of its agony, but I doubt it; it's been many years with errors.

 

[pudel]

Ubi doesn't have to sell to Tencent now and that is good.

 

[Achelexus]

You can click on ignore threads so you can ignore all the ac threads and we dont have to read these kinds of posts

Hopefully. Reminder that Ubisoft hired hundreds of indians to spread viral marketing of this game. No wonder why there's so many people claiming it's a "success" everywhere.

 

[DForce]

I still want to see how this game is going to perform over the next several weeks, but this goes to show you that we cannot rely on YouTube dislikes to see how a game is going to perform.

 

[MMaRsu]

Hopefully. Reminder that Ubisoft hired hundreds of indians to spread viral marketing of this game. No wonder why there's so many people claiming it's a "success" everywhere.

Sure buddy.

You really are grasping at straws.

 

[Kotaro]

The question is will the sales number be enough?

it's a bad number, for comparison, Valhalla did 2.55M players in one day, where Shadows did 2.2M in two days, even when they already included all the extra content incentive from premium edition

 

[MMaRsu]

it's a bad number, for comparison, Valhalla did 2.55M players in one day, where Shadows did 2.2M in two days, even when they already included all the extra content incentive from premium edition

Also launched crossgen and during covid when physical sales were a lot higher during holiday period. Posted MULTIPLE times by now.

Keep reaching bro