Assassin's Creed Shadows Hits 2 Million Players 2 Days After Release, Ubisoft Says It’s Now Surpassed Origins and Odyssey Launches

Ubisoft has hailed different Assassin’s Creed Shadows subordinate milestone, but has yet to corroborate a income fig for the game.

In a societal media post, Ubisoft said Shadows has seen 2 cardinal players since going connected merchantability connected March 20, up from the 1 cardinal connected time one.

That’s capable to surpass the launches of some Assassin’s Creed Origins and Odyssey, Ubisoft added. “Thank you for joining the travel successful Feudal Japan!”

It’s an awesome commencement for Assassin’s Creed Shadows, but it’s worthy bearing successful caput that Ubisoft has yet to denote a income fig for the game. Still, we bash cognize it’s the top-selling crippled connected Steam, wherever Ubisoft precocious returned aft years of PC motorboat exclusivity connected the Epic Games Store.

At the clip of this article’s publication, Assassin’s Creed Shadows was connected 58,894 concurrent players connected Steam, capable to interruption into the apical 30 most-played games connected Valve’s platform. That highest is expected to emergence arsenic we proceed into the game’s opening weekend.

For comparison, Origins’ all-time Steam highest was 41,551, implicit 7 years ago, and Odyssey’s was 62,069. It seems apt Shadows volition go the most-played crippled connected Steam aboriginal this weekend.

BioWare’s single-player RPG Dragon Age: The Veilguard launched connected Steam connected Thursday, October 31, 2024, and saw a highest of 89,418 players connected Valve’s platform.

The existent concurrent highest of Assassin’s Creed Shadows volition of people beryllium overmuch higher, fixed it launched connected PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S also. Neither Sony nor Microsoft marque subordinate numbers public.

There is tremendous unit connected Assassin's Creed Shadows to bash good for Ubisoft globally aft aggregate 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 and largest shareholder are reportedly exploring talks with Chinese mega-corp Tencent and different investors connected a buyout woody that would fto them sphere control.

Assassin's Creed Shadows has besides endured a fig of controversies itself, not slightest successful Japan. This week, 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 81% of implicit 6,000 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.”

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