Summary
Assassin’s Creed Shadowshas surpassed 3 million players, Ubisoft has announced. This major milestone suggests that the game is still going strong after a week.
Assassin’s Creed Shadowslaunched on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on March 20. Ubisoft revealed that the game reached 1 million players within hours of its release.
A week later, the latest entry in the popular franchise managed to surpass 3 million players, with Ubisoft announcing as much on social media. The March 27 milestone marks a 50% player count improvement compared to five days ago, whenAssassin’s Creed Shadowsofficially cleared 2 million players.
Ubisoft Still Isn’t Sharing Assassin’s Creed Shadows Sales Figures
Today’s announcement also saw Ubisoft confirm one prior report labelingShadowsas the second-biggest launch in the history of theAssassin’s Creedfranchise, behindValhalla. This particular achievement is measured in terms of day-one sales revenue. However, the developer-publisher isn’t yet sharing actual sales figures. This is standard practice for the company, which typically reserves detailed commercial performance data for its quarterly financial reports, usually communicating them in terms of overall game revenue—at least for its biggest hits.
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Assassin’s Creed Shadowshas recently achieved the highest concurrent Steam player peakout of any entry in the franchise, with nearly 65,000 people playing the game via Valve’s storefront at the same time on March 23. According to an average of estimates from Gamalytic, PlayTracker, and VG Insights, the game has sold approximately 430,000 copies via Steam as of March 27.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows May Have Already Surpassed 2 Million Sales
A recentVGC reportclaimed that PC represented roughly 27% of totalAssassin’s Creed Shadows"activations" as of March 24, citing internal Ubisoft data. Steam was characterized as being a “significant” contributor to this figure, which is also believed to include Ubisoft+ Premium players. Assuming “significant” means Steam accounted for 20% of activations, and taking the aforementioned third-party sales estimates into account, it’s possible that the game has already sold over 2 million copies. Notably, thePS5 version ofAssassin’s Creed Shadowsset a new series record for the biggest launch on the PlayStation Store—a platform that doesn’t offer Ubisoft+ Premium. Therefore, it’s a given that all current PS5 players purchased the game, which starts at $69.99.
