Assassin's Creed Shadows Had 2nd Biggest Launch of 2025 in the US - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 April 2025 / 4,409 Views
Executive Director & Video Game Industry Analyst at Circana (NPD) Mat Piscatella has revealed Assassin's Creed Shadows was the best-selling game in its launch week in the US and is in the top five best-selling games year-to-date in terms of dollars.
Monster Hunter: Wilds is the only game to have had a bigger launch in the US in 2025.
"Assassin's Creed Shadows was the best-selling game of the week in the US and already ranks among the top 5 best-selling games YTD (dollars, w/e Mar 22, 2025)," said Piscatella.
"Only Monster Hunter: Wilds reached higher week 1 dollar sales in 2025 so far."
Assassin's Creed: Shadows was the best-selling game of the week in the US and already ranks among the top 5 best-selling games YTD (dollars, w/e Mar 22, 2025).
Only Monster Hunter: Wilds reached higher week 1 dollar sales in 2025 so far.
Source: Circana Retail Tracking Service
— Mat Piscatella (@matpiscatella.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Ubisoft did announce last week the game has seen over three million players. It is the second highest day one sales revenue in Assassin's Creed franchise history and the biggest Ubisoft day one ever on the PlayStation Digital Store. Over 40 million hours have already been played.
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.
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 Bluesky.
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All that hating was just free marketing. The anti-woke crowd played themselves.
No shock there. Everything we've heard from reliable sources indicated it going in that direction.
Some weirdos online are going to be weird though.
But people seem to enjoy the game, so it's nice to see it selling very well.
