Assassin's Creed Shadows Tops 1 Million Players in Less Than 1 Day - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 20 March 2025 / 3,986 Views
Ubisoft has announced Assassin's Creed Shadows has surpassed one million players in a matter of hours since it launched.
"It's not even 4PM here in Canada and Assassin's Creed Shadows has already passed 1 million players!" said Ubisoft.
"Thank YOU from the bottom of our hearts for joining this adventure in Feudal Japan. We are beyond excited to start this journey with you!"
Assassin's Creed Shadows released earlier today for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and Ubisoft Store, and Amazon Luna.
It's not even 4PM here in Canada and Assassin's Creed Shadows has already passed 1 million players!
— Assassin's Creed (@assassinscreed) March 20, 2025
Thank YOU from the bottom of our hearts for joining this adventure in Feudal Japan. We are beyond excited to start this journey with you! 💝 pic.twitter.com/1cqwABrQfN
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Saying 1 million "players" instead of 1 million "sales" is sadly not a good sign
I think this early on though, (Day 1) it's a more accurate measurement than shipped units. They wouldn't know how many of those have been sold to consumers, right? At least I don't think retailers commonly reports those things.
Once they get requests for more shipments they could make a close estimate, but they would still only be able to report shipped + digital.
It's not on Game Pass, although it is on the much less popular Ubisoft subscription, so I think this might be fine for now.
Thats not a lot tbh.
Steam current players arent that great so most sales or on ps i guess
Well, releasing exclusively for the app store for Mac said it all. They desperately want the full price that store always entails.
my ubsfy stock not doing much so i guess these are not good numbers?
It will sell in NA but barely anywhere else, my prediction anyway.
Why would you predict that?
I think it’s because so many people believe the Japanese are really the ones upset to see a Black guy in Feudal Japan.
Well, the world is much more than just North America and Japan.
The game did get criticism from japanese audiences for a variety of reasons. A notable one was that the geography looked far more like china than Japan. Now Ghost of Tsushima wasn't the most accurate in that it didn't look anything like the real island of Tsushima but it is very faithful to how mainland Japan looks. Another point of contrast was criticism of the game script feeling too western. Meanwhile Tsushima got a lot of praise from Japanese gamers for not feeling like it was written by westerners. A lot of that is thanks to the japanese script that was handled by Japan studio. It often bordered more on rewrite rather than translation at times.
I don't think this will sell well in NA either
I don't have any data to back this up atm but in my mind Assassin's Creed is more popular in Europe than NA. Pretty sure that was true back in the day at least.
