Assassin’s Creed Shadows has, at long last, arrived, and players have come swarming out of the woodwork on launch day to support it. Not even 24 hours after going live and Ubisoft has already reported that more than a million players had begun Naoe and Yasuke’s adventure through feudal Japan.
It’s an impressive turnout; perhaps those nefarious individuals trying to stir up controversy have had the opposite effect, inadvertently pulling Ubisoft’s bacon out of the fire. We can glean even further insights from players on Steam, where GamesRadar+ have been faithfully crunching the numbers (which have doubled since their initial report).
With a peak of over 44,000 concurrent players on a weekday, that means Shadows has just repeatedly knifed Valhalla’s efforts (15,431), which would go on to be the best-selling entry in the series, and just managed to slip past the fan-favourite Origins (41,541).
Only Odyssey (61,984) stands in the way of Shadows achieving the series’ highest-ever concurrent player count, and we think Kassandra and Alexios had better brace themselves for a kanobo battering over the weekend. Oh, and it currently enjoys a Very Positive rating from over 3000 players. Perhaps the threat of reprisals from Ubisoft for any unwarranted review-bombing campaigns has bad actors running scared?
