Assassin's Creed Valhalla Tops 20 Million Players - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 27 October 2022 / 5,861 Views
Ubisoft announced the open-world action RPG, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, has surpassed 20 million players worldwide.
"Over 20 million Vikings have embarked on their epic journey to Valhalla. Standing strong by Eivor's side. From Norway to England. To Mythical Realms of the Gods," reads a tweet from Ubisoft.
"Thank you for taking this journey with us. SKAL!"
The launch day for the game saw twice as many players as Assassin's Creed Odyssey did. The game also earned over $1 billion in revenue in December 2021.
Assassin's Creed Valhalla released in November 2020 for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, Stadia, and Luna.
Over 20 million Vikings have embarked on their epic journey to Valhalla. Standing strong by Eivor's side. From Norway to England. To Mythical Realms of the Gods.
— Assassin's Creed (@assassinscreed) October 27, 2022
Thank you for taking this journey with us. SKAL! #AssassinsCreed pic.twitter.com/cQ1vegGbBq
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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20m is a first for the series afaik. All but 3 previous main series games in the series seem to have sold over 10m copies (they were Brotherhood, Syndicate, and Rogue), but I've never seen a 20m announcement from Ubisoft before for AC.
Players, not sold.
True, but they have never announced 20m players for any of the earlier AC games either unless I missed it. And the only sub service you can play AC Valhalla on without owning it is Ubisoft+ which is PC only currently (was announced as coming to Xbox early this year but we haven't heard anything since). Guessing most of this 20m players is sales, at least 80% probably.
Don't doubt it sold a lot but because they had a break in the games it helped promotion plus I'd say it's only over the last few years that saying how many players you have is more of the fad than sales. 10 mil in sales sounds great, 15 million players sounds better.
Of course as a brit, I want it just so I can go to my local towns and cities and see what the depiction of them is like.
It's on ps plus extra from the beginning and there were a few weekends you could play for free on Playstation and probably xbox too
I forgot about those, Ubisoft + too.
Congrats to Ubisoft for finding renewed success
A good game, but trying to keep it going for years and years by adding little bits of content here and there is ultimately tiring. Let us move on to other things, let us go into the light already.
Thankfully they did announce 3 new AC games recently, Mirage, Codename Red (Feudal Japan), and Codename Hexe (Holy Roman Empire circa 1625-1631). Mirage is releasing next year, while Codename Red and Codename Hexe are further out and are part of AC Infinity (a shared modern day storyline hub world and multiplayer game with multiple singleplayer historical AC games tied into it). There was also a leak stating that Ubisoft plans to release a remake of AC1 between Mirage and Codename Red, reusing some of the desert and city environment assets from Mirage to reduce costs. So the schedule should be Mirage in 2023, AC1 remake in 2024, AC Red in 2025, and probably AC Hexe in 2026.
Congrats, still haven't played it, waiting for bargain bin like the other ACs
