Assassin's Creed Shadows becomes 2nd best selling game of the year

*Here's a fun one... Assassin's Creed: Shadows has been the best-selling video game in the US for each of its first 3 weeks in market, according to Circana's Retail Tracking Service (dollar sales, latest data through April 5th).

Currently ranks #2 year-to-date trailing only Monster Hunter: Wilds."

[Levii_92]

Man people are really trying to paint this game as being mega successful as a slap to the face to ''haters'' aren't they. Yeah ofc it sold, it's ASSCreed. This game was never going to flop. It probably sold fine for an AC game but the real question is.. is that enough? Nope. It's not.

[enigmaticheretic]

You must be fun at parties

[chrisx]

Now say that again, without crying

[Abear21]

Gamers are so sensitive now the game could have flopped if it had a character they didn’t like or writers contributing to the story that are too far left in their own personal beliefs. That’s crazy, and so is the notion that it’s a good game and selling well but that’s not “enough”

[Eonjay]

The thing that gets me is that people are falling for the brainwashing that says that something you don't like shouldn't exist. It's a back ally to censorship and they don't even realize the danger in that.

Overall this mindset is weakening people by making so they can't stand in their own truth unless everyone else accepts that truth. And you can't get everyone to accept your truth so you are just left with your hate.

[Sashamaz]

Why are gamers so hell-bent on the failure of games they do not like or have the intention of ever buying?

[TheColbertinator]

It is weird. I am a big fan of Assassin's Creed so I'm eager to see Shadows do well both in terms of sales and gameplay quality. Even some of the biggest critics of AC are legitimate fans of the series so they make their issues with Ubisoft well known.

[Lightning77]

Fake outrage fake gamer. The games doing well.

You want games to do bad. No you need another hobby.

[DodoDojo]

The hate campaign isn't going to like this.

[Cockney]

What else of note has been released this year? Let's have some context

[andy85]

Plenty of good games. Kingdom come 2, Like a dragon off the top of my head

[Mulletino]

You can usually tell how popular a game is by how many miscellaneous articles are on n4g (how to do this or that, heres why this changes blah blah blah).

The only AC Shadows articles running are late reviews and articles about "how well its doing".

[Michiel1989]

yeah you can read how good a game is doing from a forum full of boomers, cmon man

[Profchaos]

I hope the take away for Ubisoft is that they need to finish a game before launching it outlaws vs AC it's embarrassing

[ZeekQuattro]

Glad to hear it. It's a fun game haters be damned. Time for them to livk their wounds and more on to their next target. Probably Mario Kart World when they see Peach wearing pants again. That went over well in the recent Mario movie. 🤣

[Eonjay]

They next target is Marathon and the use of... 'vibrant color and stylized aesthetics' I think they are trying to brainwash the cult to auto-hate color itself. It's about eliminating the ability of the group to process any kind of complex thought.

It will try to legitimize itself by grafting on to actual real concerns that people have with Marathon and so it's an easier target.

[PanicMechanic]

I had an altercation with you last month, where I voiced my opinion of Yasuke and how it’s a hamfisted and very disrespectful to Japanese culture to depict a black African as a samurai slaughtering and brutalising Japanese nationals in a game that TRIES to faithfully recreate that time period of Japan.

I said AC shadows, where you play as a woman ninja or a black samurai, is NOT the feudal Japan game we dreamed of 10 years ago.

No amount of pussy spinning is going to change the fact that Ubisoft got this wrong, and THEIR depiction of Yasuke is racist and disrespectful to the Japanese. And it shits and spits all over their rich history. If you think some garbage and contrived / hamfisted depiction of Yasuke is fine or historically accurate (and yes that relevant for AC games), but can’t see the disrespect to the Japanese that’s says a lot more about how racist you are. And wankers like Pawnmaster3000 (probably the biggest pimple popping loser on this website)

O by the way. Thanks for calling an African racist (me, I’m African, living in Africa). Just shows how noble, upstanding and morally superior you and the losers defending this crap game are. Wankers in shining armour. Have a terrible weekend

[JEECE]

We might have to give Ubisoft some credit here. If they marketed this game to trigger "anti-woke" sentiment on purpose just so that they could get all the industry/influencer types to take an active interest in pushing this game in order to counter that crowd, it has worked masterfully. There are industry types who would have rolled their eyes at the idea of caring about another open world Ubisoft game a few years ago, and now they are pushing Shadows like it's a new Fromsoft game. If that was all intentional, it was galaxy brain level manipulation of the culture wars.

[jznrpg]

Or they made the game they wanted to make

[JEECE]

Notice I said nothing about the game they chose to make; I talked about marketing. Ubisoft has been making "the game they wanted to make" over and over for years and they haven't gotten this much attention for it in awhile. Try finding anyone who is passionate one way or the other about Watchdogs: Legion. Yet every piece of news about this game's sales or steam numbers either gets twisted into a reason the game isn't going to save Ubisoft or celebrated as a rebuke of the haters.

[jznrpg]

The game looks beautiful. I was deciding between this and First Berserker Khazan to play next but went with Berserker. After I’m done with that and Lunar remastered, AC Shadows is up next.

[z2g]

Weird how the highest selling games are never exclusives. I guess more access means more sales. 🤔

[VersusDMC]

Is shadows out selling GOW Ragnarok, Tears of the Kingdom or Spider Man 2?

If those games had shadows sales numbers there would be only "underperforming" articles...

[Eonjay]

Generally this is true but it's not the rule. Zelda and Spiderman (before it came to PC) show us that exclusive game can still shift millions upon millions. Games like Wolverine and Mario Kart will do incredible numbers.

Then you have games like GTA which don't have any 3rd or 1st part peers at all. That's to say that it is 3rd party multplat but it's performance isn't indicative of how other multiplats perform. Even if it was exclusive it would still beat every multiplat game full stop.

[Knushwood Butt]

Yeah. You could have used Mario Kart 8 to back up your point.

[TheColbertinator]

Nintendo doesn't need any help in selling Animal Crossing.

[DankSinatra]

Bbbbbut daddy asmongold said it was terrible so it should have flopped!!!

Seriously people, the hate is forced.

[SimpleDad]

I'm sorry but Asmongold is the Video Game Czar.

[hiawa23]

Loving the game right now. I am about 85 hours into it, currently working on clearing all the views, side missions and finding stuff.

[Npugz7]

That’s not saying much it’s only April lol

[anast]

Fans didn't care about all the other stuff and it shows.