Almost All the UK's Boxed Copies of Assassin's Creed Shadows Sold on PS5 Last Week

An article about Chrono Trigger sales for its 30th and now this? How long does a game have to be out before you stop talking about its sales!

This is a very unserious, silly comment.

AC Shadows will be getting another sale from me shortly

Hopefully, word-of-mouth from those who have actually played it is taking over from the Internet hysteria.

I hope ubisoft sells ac to sony. They could do a great job with that franchise. (I know they wont but one can still dream right)

Really enjoying Atomfall. Wasn't on my radar as not usually into the genre but it's really grabbed me

Well deserved for Atomfall. Enjoying it now.

@Cry_Zero Plot twist - Ubisoft Quebec have done a brilliant job with Shadows, it's a fantastic game.

@KillerBoy Tencent is not taking anything over. Dream further. )

Who is laughing now? Capcom.
Wilds probably sold at least 3x more than Shadows and will sell more once the updates and the inevitable expansion are out too.

All that while having a damn solid game and no PR nightmare to deal with.

Yeah, my taste aligns with Japanese chart, where Monster Hunter and Atelier Yomia reign supreme.

Shadows is a fantastic game. I’ve been having so much fun. My only criticism is that it’s perhaps a little too easy. I have it on expert mode and finding it manageable. Looks absolutely gorgeous as well on my pro

@EddieGallad Ironic that you're pissing your pants about the game being "offensive" while spewing homophobia.

@MrPeanutbutterz exactly

@REALAIS you think tencent is giving Ubisoft billions of dollars for free?

@CielloArc "Wilds probably sold 3x more"
I'm curious how you can say that without knowing the total sells of AC: Shadows? I swear some of y'all have it out of for this game

@KillerBoy they will buy in for what..10%they won't have ***** to do with anything other than infuse ubisoft with money and some labour, and complain about money at shareholder meetings and have a vote occasionally

Nice to see Atomfall launch so high, its the perfect AA game we all want more off.

@Paramahansa Ubisoft won’t say more than “player” numbers and I’m wagering they won’t broadcast actual sales numbers for a few months.

Given that Wilds’ player count on Steam makes Shadows look like some unknown indie game and unlike Shadows you can’t rent Wilds on a subscription service…

@KillerBoy Imagine simping for Tencent and thinking they could improve anything. If anything Tencent will make things far worse.

Dont care about AC but anyone interested in soulslike by First Berserker. Its awesome

@Paramahansa
My brother in Chist, Wilds sold 10M and we still haven't seen any hint of sale numbers from Ubisoft besides the 1M players stuff.

I finally got myself Astro Bot for PS5 as i waited for a discount on the physical copy it's arriving tomorrow. I was going to get Assassin's Creed Shadows but since the "physical" version says internet required made me get digital version instead. If i can't get a proper physical copy of it to preserve without using a internet connection, might as well get it digitally. Either way physical or digital of Assassin's Creed Shadows we don't own either version.

@CielloArc you could argue the pr nightmare for wilds was performance - both alpha tests looked and ran terribly on consoles and pc prior to release.

Performance on release on pc is still pretty terrible and the high res texture pack absolutely tanks performance on my gpu, despite the in-game vram usage showing to be well within the 16gb i have available. I can’t speak for launch on consoles as I only played the alpha test on my ps5.

Gameplay wise, I love the game. But it’s definitely nowhere near a perfect launch.

@CielloArc

All that while having a damn solid game and no PR nightmare to deal with.

It’s funny how Capcom have become one of those companies that can basically do anything and people will act like they’re the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Monster Hunter Wilds is a 59.1% on Steam, because the game’s performance is an absolute joke. Dragons Dogma 2 is still a joke in performance one year later, 60.82% on Steam.

Both games also have egregious microtransactions in full price games. Fast Travel and character edit DLC’s.

Capcom use Denuvo on PC. They’ve even previously released a game without Denuvo and then patched it in a year later, breaking the game for some people. They’ve added microtransactions to games(Resident Evil 4) after the review window had passed. They’ve released full price premium games that use the battle pass and premium currency model. Multiple attempts and MTX full resident evil Live service games in the last few years etc. etc.

@KillerBoy it is called investment. Tencent injects money in troubled Ubisofts best 3 IP's in value of 25%. Ubisoft spends that money and every time they will make proffit, and they will, from those IP they will need to share that 25% proffit or whatever is written in contract. Tencent doesnt control Ubisoft and has nothing to say in Creative side aswell. Tencent is mostly silent partner in their invested companies.
Tencent only has 10% in regular Ubisoft shares.

@CielloArc "we haven't seen any hint of sales numbers"
My point exactly. So you're just assuming it sold 3x as much.

@dskatter Is Steam the only place AC: Shadows is played? No. So the Steam numbers don't come close to telling the whole story.

@Paramahansa Of course it isn’t and of course they don’t. But Steam numbers are the only actual hard data we have, and they’re very telling.

Ok but no numbers are reported here. It's not because it's on top that it is high. Capcom is reporting 10M sales. This is a substantial number.

@ChrisDeku "Monster Hunter Wilds is a 59.1% on Steam". Yeah and has a steady 300k concurrent players, ranking 5 in the most played game since its release. The truth is that people ignore review bombing from the hate community. The quality of a game speaks by itself. It also applies to ACS.

@B0udoir That’s not review bombing. The game is great, but the condition of the game is abysmal. When Sony makes ports that bad it is a massive news story, or Ubisoft, EA etc. etc.

Well series x consoles aren't available in stores anymore and it never even made it to 7 million units sold so over 4 years later so................ yeah, it is what it is.

For people who don't understand, series x is the only console with a disc drive Microsoft put out this gen..... and its gone from most stores all over the world.

I mean it’s not like there’s much competition for it. Not many other new big games are out there atm which is probably why they delayed it. Plus, say what you want about it, the AC formula is one a lot of people like.

@Paramahansa are you totally missing something?

Ubisoft announced that AC shadows had 3million players (recently) total, that is across all consoles/PC and includes their subscription service.. meaning you can play it for £15.

Capcom announced that wilds (admittedly released couple of weeks earlier) has passed 10m in sales.

So that’s 3x more. And that’s not hating on shadows at all. That’s just the numbers.

@RagnarLothbrok Hmmmmm is it like lies of P/sekiro? With that I mean your only defense option is parrying? If so then I'm gonna have to pass. For souls games im a shield whore so yeah. The only souls game I enjoyed without shield is Bloodborne (which is still my most favorite soulsborne). Also did you have a chance to try AI limit and how would you compare these two? 😊

@Paramahansa agrred steam is notories for causing issues with ubisoft games due to ubisoft connect causing issues. If I buy a ubisoft game on pc I do so via ubisoft connect and I imagine others will do aswell. So steam is for sure not the complete picture.

@andrewsqual does that mean I can sell mine for more than I got it for 🤔

Could be the first time an Xbox has held its value 😁

Yeah picked my disc copy up couple days ago, always a trade in to recoup some cost, but although a slow start with this game I'm actually starting to have fun, great graphics Ubisoft Devs never disappoint on their amazing open worlds, me like and well done Ubisoft thanks people, just want Splinter Cell remake asap.

Why do people compare ac shadows to mh wilds. Wilds is probably the most hyped game this year other than GTA 6. So shadows releasing as close to it as it did has done relatively well
When it comes to steam numbers we should really be comparing shadows numbers to others in the same franchise as it has always been a console heavy series.
Personally I hope both games do well if only for all the hardwork the Devs at both companies have put in.

Also monster hunter has 5 mainline entries, let's see what their sales are like after 14 mainline entries like ac.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner you're right that MH wilds has done considerably better than Shadows but shadows success shouldn't be measured against a game that will probably be the second best selling game this year (assuming gta6 does come out). Ac popularity has been on the wane whilst skepticism is at an all time high. Monster hunter is still riding the crest of its popularity.
I'm not trying to give you grief specifically as I know you to be one of the more reasonable commentors on here, I just get tired of the endless goalpost moving.
For example when gta6 inevitably sells 10x more than MH wilds it doesn't suddenly make MH wilds a failure but by the logic endorsed by some people here it should.

Still yet to play Atomfall, but glad it's popular.

Amazed and happy Astro Bot is doing so well.

Kind of expected for a big franchise like AC to sell lots.

@MrPeanutbutterz im 50hrs in and have yet to see the fantastic game you speak of

@Jorogumo sony is gonna do what sony usually does. Release exceptional games. Which ubisoft sadly fails to do every damn time

@dskatter ....that's literally why the player count is so low on steam. Who's paying £60 for shadows on steam when you can pay 15 to play it? All the players are doing that. That's why they have to say 3 million players or whatever the number was and its not telling at all because of that
The PS data is telling, where it's #1

@Andy22385 Which is exactly why I keep saying that we can’t believe any of this “x million players!” as an indicator of how well this is doing financially.

@dskatter it's not an indicator, just saying why steam sales are tiny. The PS one is decent though

@Llamageddon oh I’m not giving it grief at all. Honestly I’m glad Ubisoft got the win here. I’ll certainly be buying it in the future. (I always wait for ubi to drop price, yep I’m part of their problem!)

@Cry_Zero So what missions have you done? What sort of build are you going for with the two characters? Are you not impressed by the seasons and how they affect the world? The weather and atmospheric systems? The overall aesthetic design of the world? The pretty much locked 60FPS at launch?

If the game doesn't tickle you then that's fine (though if you're 50 hours into it then it's clearly doing a lot right), but it's objectively a well-made game - RDR2 bores me to tears, but I can still see it's a well made game.

@Andy22385 Steam sales are tiny?

That’s an…interesting take.

AC Shadows the No1.Glad to see it's selling well because it's a well put together game with a decent story and great game engine performance.

Nice to see Astro Bot at 3rd place. The game has long legs.

@dskatter well they are aren't they? 60k peak users compared to MH wilds with 1.4 million. That's horrendous if there wasn't a way to explain it

@Cry_Zero how you dropping 50 hours into a game you apparently don't like ? Seems like a dumb thing to do and then complain about it been bad
Or you just ragebaiting to entertain yourself

What is the point of buying boxed with the DRM you can't install the game without an internet connection

Yeah!! Go Hello Kitty Island Adventure 😍👍🏼

@Dampsponge Because you can still shop around for a deal (my local retailer had it physically for €10 less than the PS Store on launch day), or borrow a copy from a friend/the library, and you can still resell it after you finish (I'll be getting €50 for my copy).

Now that's not to say I don't agree with you broadly - it's nonsense that a complete v.1.00 of the game isn't on the disc, but with physical continuing on its slow death march, I'll take the "win" of still being able to walk into a shop and buy it on disc.

@dskatter it's the best selling Ubisoft game on PSN

@MrPeanutbutterz ice done almost everything the game offers. I mainly play naoe since yasuke cant climb at all. the seasons are a nice addition but that wont make it a great game. The game has way to many things that are downright horrible (the faces, the animations when fighting, THE BUGS) its like a prettier valhalla. Definitely regret buyng it day one.

And 50hours in because i get the platinum trophy in every ac game, not because i like the game

@Uromastryx easy, i love(d) the franchise and im easily hyped. AND ive got to get the platinum trophy.
I hated every second playing valhalla and i still got the trophies🤷‍♂️

@Cry_Zero I understand you, don't understand why, surely 50hesrs could be better spent, doing something you enjoy
About the platinum I want to too bit I've done almost everything in the game, so I basically gotta wait around for the seasons to change so I can does those legendary paintings, so don't really want to bother now, maybe a patch will come allowing us to change season whenever we want 🙃

@Uromastryx my brain is just damaged that way😀

Yeah the waiting killed me but i got the last one of the sumi es yesterday and dobby is finally free