Assassin's Creed Shadows Tops 2 Million Players - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 22 March 2025 / 18,215 Views
Ubisoft has announced Assassin's Creed Shadows has surpassed two million players. This is faster than Assassin's Creed Origins and Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
This figure is up from one million players in less than one day.
"2 MILLION PLAYERS!" said Ubisoft. "We’re thrilled to celebrate this incredible milestone!
"Assassin's Creed Shadows has now surpassed the launches of AC Origins and Odyssey. Thank you for joining the journey in Feudal Japan!"
Assassin's Creed Shadows released for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and Ubisoft Store, and Amazon Luna on March 20.
🔥 2 MILLION PLAYERS! 🔥
— Assassin's Creed (@assassinscreed) March 22, 2025
We’re thrilled to celebrate this incredible milestone!
Assassin's Creed Shadows has now surpassed the launches of AC Origins and Odyssey. Thank you for joining the journey in Feudal Japan! #AssassinsCreedShadows pic.twitter.com/a6YezXNtYI
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How many sold and how many are streamed..huge difference
We will find out by next month or so I guess. 60,000 players on steam is crap and they are highly reliant on PlayStation users.
Just means it's sold ~120-180k on steam so far. If it has had over 2million players, a majority must be from consoles.
Probably mostly subscribers.
Subscribing is still £15 to effectively rent the game for one month, and they pay zero fees on that £15. An entire physical sale nets around £35 and that copy can be sold on and take away another sale.
I imagine they greatly prefer someone subscribes to play it rather than buying a physical copy and selling it after they’re done.
Zero fees is not correct as the payment service providers (paypal ect.) charge fees. In addition, the servers, the traffic and the developers of the launcher also cost money.
The series always performed way better on consoles than PC. The Steam concurrent player count record for the Assassin's Creed series is 62k players for AC Odyssey, so Shadows with 60k concurrent players is the 2nd strongest concurrent player count performance in the series on Steam, above Origins at 41k, Black Flag at 16k, and every other game in the series other than Odyssey.
It's going to surpass Odyssey numbers on steam as that's the highest in the series
They make the most money from Xbox and PlayStation. Oddysey has the highest steam count of 66k and that game sold well. Valhalla was only 22ish k and that made billions of. Dollars
I mean why are people still trying to downplay everything these days...
Not a single news will come with people trying to always find something wrong about it even if it is a good news...
Because we have seen far higher and better numbers being called out by publishers. They dug this hole, we are just observers here.
No, they did not dig anything. They are just saying "2 million" players, literally...
And you "observers" come up with how bad this could be... or how they must be hiding something already.
They are just saying 2 million players played the game so far, which is pretty damn good. It is probably the second if not top, AC player counts after 2 days.
Everything is a big conspiracy these days, it seems.
Preorders 1 month before release were stated to be in-line with Origins and Odyssey, and now player counts including Ubisoft+ subs have been stated to be above Origins and Odyssey, which both released before Ubisoft+ began in 2019. So while launch sales likely aren't higher than Origins or Odyssey, they are likely pretty close, because I don't think Ubisoft+ has all that many subscribers. Still makes Shadows one of the higher performing games in the series at launch, above Rogue, Unity, Syndicate, Mirage, Brotherhood, AC1, and AC4 on launch most likely.
"huge" to whom? Suscription revenues are revenues... I do not think there is a big difference, if anything, looking at how big games keep coming on GamePass even from third parties, it shows that subscription revenues are probably significant enough to "sale" the game on it.
Or the fact that all major publishers are going into the subscription game, or are going to say that none of them know what they are doing and they are losing money for fun?
Since publishers report shipped as sold, I think I prefer to hear about their sales a bit after the initial launch batch has sold out.
Though it being on Ubisoft+ makes player count an unreliable metric as well. But how many subscriptions do Ubisoft+ have?
Is there a huge difference? I would bet you that Ubisoft prefers subscribers, but is happy either way.
Don't know how front loaded Assassin's Creed games usually are but that's not exactly an 'incredible milestone' in my mind.
They’re not very front loaded at all, in contrast to what one might expect for a big AAA established franchise. It’s because of the wait for a sale mentality around Ubisoft games.
Assassin’s creed: Valhalla was the 16th best selling game in the USA in 2021(it’s second year on the market).
People bitch at Nintendo for refusing to do deep discounts on their games. This is why they don't. They know the worth of their IPs and won't devalue them. Maybe if companies could find a happy medium in pricing, they wouldn't constantly be teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.
That's a false dichotomy. There is a massive amount of room between discounting after a month and discounting never.
Fair point, didn't see the part about Origins or Odyssey either tho it's worth noting those games didn't launch on a subscription service so its a players vs sales comparison.
Ubisoft hopes this games' sales are as frontloaded as possible, considering how desperately they need the money and how quickly they discount their games.
interesting to see how many are actual sales considering Ubisoft+ is 40% off a year right now so its about price of the gold edition
Probably bigger on consoles than PC. Steam estimates put sales around 200k. Ubisoft connect probably much lower.
Also important to remember AC is a big franchise, and people have been begging for Japan for years, it's silly to think this game will be a complete flop. Only time will tell.
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