Shadows Is The 2nd Best-Selling Game In The US – WGB

Whereas there was a on-line development that Murderer’s Creed: Shadows has been a business failure – further fuelled by Ubisoft themselves only sharing how many people had played the game rather than sales, and low Steam player counts – new information suggests the sport has truly offered very effectively.

Mat Piscatella of Circana, their Retail Monitoring Service (which accounts for greenback gross sales as much as April 5) at the moment has Murderer’s Creed: Shadows because the top-selling sport within the US for its first three weeks available on the market.

This is a enjoyable one… Murderer’s Creed: Shadows has been the best-selling online game within the US for every of its first 3 weeks in market, in line with Circana’s Retail Monitoring Service (greenback gross sales, newest information by way of April fifth).

At the moment ranks #2 year-to-date trailing solely Monster Hunter: Wilds.

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That apparently means it’s at the moment the second best-selling sport of the yr within the US, behind the spectacular Monster Hunter: Wilds which has sold over 10 million copies globally.

Within the UK, the sport reportedly offered extra bodily copies in its first week than Star Wars: Outlaws managed in three months.

Finally, according to a source who talked to VGC, Murderer’s Creed: Shadows is the 2nd largest launch within the franchise’s historical past, coming in second solely to Murderer’s Creed: Valhalla, a sport which benefitted massively from launching throughout the Covid period.

Ubisoft at the moment wants all of the gross sales it could get, as the corporate is going through critical issues. Its inventory worth has tanked so low that Ubisoft introduced plans to create a new subsidiary housing their biggest franchises, including Assassin’s Creed.

Personally, I’ve solely performed about 8 hours of Shadows and my impressions are that it’s overwhelmingly whelming. It’s high quality. It may be enjoyable, however appears like one other generic Ubisoft sport for essentially the most half.