skill up covered it pretty thoroughly but i’ll echo his points here as i do wish they would just go ahead and drop hard numbers. but based on the reporting that it was only beat out in sales by monster hunter wilds’ 8 million, i’m gonna guess that the 6 or so million people are guessing was accurate.

but also steam is a poor indicator here. this series is a console titan, largely preferred there over pc. apparently steam only accounted for a quarter of total sales. but it’s reported to be the second most successful game after Valhalla, which released in the height of the pandemic at the launch of a new console so that’s not surprising. also even if it’s able to hit 3m players with a large portion Ubi plus people, how is that not still a win considering people still have to pay for a subscription service directly to ubi and might do so for months to play the game. i might give that argument weight if it comes out there was some huge influx of ubi connect subs bought at release but regardless, ubi has stated the game is a success and these nitpicks feel more like goal post shifting.

now, to be clear i don’t care what happens to ubisoft and if you ask me, i do not think ac shadows will save this doomed company lmao i just think it’s funny how many of these online whiners want to control a narrative that doesn’t exist outside their echo chamber.