Thread 718467448

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> Assassin’s Creed Shadows was Europe’s best-selling new game of 2025, beating competition from Split Fiction, Monster Hunter Wilds, Mario Kart World and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.

> In data shared with The Game Business ahead of Gamescom 2025, 71 million PC and console games have been sold across the major European markets so far this year (data up until July 28), which is a drop of 6% over the same period the year before.

> This includes 52 million digital games (-3% year-on-year), and 19.7 million physical games (-9%).

>>718467448 (OP)
>selling
how many did it sell then?

>>718467494
A lot. Best selling game. Millions of players. Believe it.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

LIES

LIES

LIES

ALL LIES

IT FLOPPED, OK? IT FUCKING FLOPPED

>>718467448 (OP)
In before schizos cope by saying ">players"

>/v/ says that GfK is lying that Assassin's Creed Shadows sold well
>/v/ says that Nielsen is lying that Assassin's Creed Shadows sold well
>/v/ says that The Game Business is lying that Assassin's Creed Shadows sold well
>/v/ says that Circana is lying that Assassin's Creed Shadows sold well
-You Are Now Here-
>/v/ says that GSD is lying that Assassin's Creed Shadows sold well
>/v/ says that Ubisoft is just making another Assassin's Creed sequel to pretend that Shadows didn't flop

Remember. Reality doesn't matter. All that matters is if /v/ can delude themselves with their delusional happy narrative.

>>718467893
it was so succesfull ubisoft closed studios and sold part of their company to tencent

>>718468184
Bro, Ubisoft had considerably less layoffs than the rest of the western industry. That's not what would happen if this game actually flopped.
As for Tencent, we knew that deal was in the works a year before Shadows released, and it came off the actual flops like Skull & Bones.

Man I miss the poster counter
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Oh wait, never mind lol.

>Europe
>new game
so it was beaten out by older games

>>718467448 (OP)
All public evidence showed the game flopped, until other evidence is provided I'm not buying it.

>>718467448 (OP)
Has games even come out this year?

>>718468041
>no one played it
>no one liked it
>it killed the dev studio and tanked the company
>yet it's the best selling game ever made

>>718467448 (OP)
Assassin’s Creed Shadows may have been the No,1 new game of the year, but it wasn’t the No.1 game. The actual best-selling European game of 2025 (so far) is EA Sports FC 25, which was released in 2024.

1. EA Sports FC 25 (EA)
2. Assassin’s Creed Shadows (Ubisoft)
3. Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)
4. Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar)
5. Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros)
6. Split Fiction (EA)
7. Monster Hunter Wilds (Capcom)
8. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Activision Blizzard)
9. Mario Kart World (Nintendo)*
10. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 (Plaion)
11. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered (Bethesda)
12. Star Wars Battlefront 2 (EA)
13. Elden Ring: Nightreign (Bandai Namco)
14. It Takes Two (EA)
15. Grand Theft Auto Online (Rockstar)
16. NBA 2K25 (2K Games)
17. F1 25 (EA)
18. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege (Ubisoft)
19. Mario Kart 8: Deluxe (Nintendo)*
20. Battlefield 1 (EA)

>However, although most major publishers share their data, smaller publishers are typically absent from this chart. Nintendo also doesn’t share its first-party digital data with GSD, either. As a result, sometimes a big game ends up missing from the chart. For this one, you’ll notice Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is not in the Top 20, nor are Schedule 1, REPO or Peak (which were all successful indie games on Steam).

Not only is it selling 2nd to a game released LAST year, the chart doesn't mean fucking anything when it doesn't even include nintentoddlers' feed.

>>718468763
>annual EA sportsball games

>>718467448 (OP)
Interesting, can we see the actual numbers?

Great. /vpol/'s right-wing autistic chud campaign failed.

>>718469114
this

>>718468459
MH Wilds is the best selling MH. Kingdom Come 2 has been a success (ignore what you see on 4chan spamming gay shit)

>>718467448 (OP)
Still not buying.

>>718469159
>>718469114
Proofs?

Sales? Or did they mean 4 BILLION PLAYERS tried it out on gamepass?

>>718468041
The numbers?

>>718467448 (OP)
I played Valhalla early this year and it's now one of my favourite games of all time. I bought Shadows because of that was disappointed. Shadows is fucking shit. Mirage, Odyssey, and Origins are still kino.

>>718469482
With that said, I'm still glad Shadows is selling well because I hate anti-Ubifags so much.

>>718469482
Why, Shadows was slammed for being repetitive just like Vahalla, what was so bad about it?

>>718467448 (OP)
>wilds has 10mil actual sales
>ac has 5 mil players
>but it sold more
Utter or europoors have absolutely shit taste. Either, way they arent enough to compensate for the piss-poor global sales.

>>718468763
Lol. What kind of news is this?
>"It's the best-selling game of the year!"
>in Europe
>despite selling less than FIFA in Europe
>when you don't count Nintendo games
>and don't count a bunch of other games

>>718469642
>what is this
Cope, its called cope. If they had good sales hell even acceptable sales, they would have released them.

>>718469742
If I'm not mistaken, the CEO refused to answer shareholders' questions about how well the game sold. Things must be pretty bad.

why doesnt ubisoft boast about this to their investors?

>>718468763
>the data comes from the publisher
Ah yes, I'm sure that is totally reliable data and they certainly don't have an interest in wildly propping their numbers up to please shareholders.

The data, its all gone!

>>718468324
Lel OP ran away after this

>>718469875
because lying to the investors will get you sued
not so much as paying for an article that's blatantly false

Schrödinger's best selling game.

We won!

>>718467448 (OP)
go woke go...top the charts?

>>718467448 (OP)
Really? How many units did it sell?

HOW MANY? CUANDO??? 6 million give or take 6 million?

>>718469642
It's a reminder that you don't hate game "journalists" nearly enough.

>>718467448 (OP)
Black ops 6 has triple the sales of it.

>>718468582
>it killed the dev studio and tanked the company
sauce?

>>718470285
The most

>>718470285
A MILLION! TWO MILLION! NO WAIT, 10 MILLION! We had layoffs, but... 50 MILLION SALES! Why not?

>>718467448 (OP)
>europe
>a place flooded with blacks and pakis now

>>718469642
It’s called just lying.
90% of people only read headlines and never stop to think if its a blatant lie or intentionally bad wording.
Also imagine being 2nd on a list of games that sold in 2025 abd most of those games are from years ago.

>>718468041
>nobody releasing numbers
Why? Why do you think that is? I can tell you why, because if they release a number they could be held legally liable for lying to the investors.
If all they say is vague "best selling" they can always make up metrics to fit that wording. BEST SELLING "ubisoft game" "this week" "ac IP"
Exactly because reality matters, we know that it was a flop. Look how a studio with an actually best selling game acts, they keep releasing weekly updates of sales with solid fucking numbers.

>>718470515
lmao cope post
post the sales numbers jeet, go on
>n-no it sold a lot!
post the numbers then

>>718467448 (OP)
I just love how those disingenuous faggots make it sound like the 71 million games sold in total are all AC Shadows. And yet they still don't show its actual numbers

>>718468763
This is about what I figured this headline was. Some bizarre cherry picked metric with no hard numbers backing it and people believe it for no God damn reason.

I genuinely don't know anyone who plays AssCreed or Horizon (Zero Dawn) games, even though they supposedly sell like hotcakes. Who the fuck keeps buying these games?

>>718467448 (OP)
If it sold well they would announce the numbers.

>>718470630
>Look how a studio with an actually best selling game acts
Then why can't I find an official number for EA Sports FC 25 sales? All I can find is estimatives from Alinea Analytics.

You're full of shit and coping.

>>718467448 (OP)
>71 million sold
So it's a fluff piece saying the franchise numbers instead of shadows actual sales.

You don't hate journalists enough

I fail to see where they are getting their sales numbers from. It's like a 3k subscriber youtube channel that gets 300-1k views per video. Their substack didn't even properly link to their youtube page.

Oh, so it sold more than mario kart world, which sold 5.5 million?
Can I see it? The sales numbers? In a financial record?

>>718470882
You're an illiterate retard. That's the number of all games that were sold in Europe and documented in 2025.

Of course you'd hate journalism. You can't read.

>>718470882
It's not even franchise numbers anon, it's the total number of any games sold this year so far.

>>718468263
Bro you don't understand closing a studio is actually a sign of success

>>718470901
>I don't know what the difference between TGS and GSD is: The post

>>718471007
And once you start selling shares to Tencent you know you've really made it big.

>>718471007
Hey, anon, check this out. It's gonna blow your mind.

>>718467448 (OP)
Wasnt a lot of the game just given for free? I remember on reddit people signed up to something d they got the game for free two months but they had to cancel it or it would be writen as bought by them. People were freaking out. They needed to sell the game or they were going to get in trouble with investors so they fucked with the numbers

>>718471086
Why do you continue ignoring that that deal was already leaked before Shadows even came out? Skull & Bones and other Ubisoft flops led to that. They lost most of their shares 4 years ago.

Is it cause you can't accept Shadows is not a flop like you desperately memed?

>>718471007
close studio > have to pay less money > you keep more money > more money = more success
At last I truly understand economics.

>>718470879
the fuck is that even supposed to prove you retard
>well that other company is also not releasing the numbers, so that means the first company is in the right
???

>physical only
>in europe only
>in a 6 months time period
kekekekeke, you sure you don't need more conditions?

>>718471173
>"these two are the exact same!"
typical ubishill low IQ mouthbreather argument

>>718471238
post the sales numbers

>>718467494
Gorillions, trust me bro

>>718471314
You said that successful games always disclose numbers
I've shown you a game that is so successful that it's the best selling game even a year later. A game that is a yearly EA rehash, no less. No numbers reported for it.
I proved your statement wrong.

>>718468763
>*Digital data unavailable
>Data until July 28, 2025
>Games bundled with hardware is included (including digital and physical games)
>Data covers Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom
So many asterisks to not even be number 1...

>>718471353
>>physical only
Why did you have to lie to try to prove your point? You're desperate.

By the way, you look outside of Europe and the data is similar. Here's the US side of things. Oh, but they must be lying too, of course. Because your narrative is more important than the truth.

>>718467448 (OP)
Good. It's way better than Rise of Ronin and Ghost of Tsushima, and Naoe is sexo

>>718471435
>You said
i'm not the same anon
and that article proves jack shit

>>718471557
okay. post the sales numbers then

>>718471353
>>in a 6 months time period
Assassin's Creed Shadows released 5 months ago, you fucking retard. What other time period would they use?

>file.jpg
Btw Dave Rivera has a small penis and his gutter skank tranny gf fantasizes about BGC (Big Grummz Cock) every night.

>>718467448 (OP)
Hasn't the understanding being "it sold well, but not enough as they expected" for a good while now?
Like, niggers really aren't a deterrent for most normalfags.
And AC is the most normalfag franchise there is.

>>718471808
Shut up, cuck. That's a lie. It fucking flopped. No one bought it.

>>718471238
So most of their games already shit the bed but the one memed across the internet about a nigger samurai that can neither hide nor climb, THAT was one that made good sales?
Eat my ass, retard. The game is dogshit and ubislop will never publish sales numbers.

>>718469642
Ubisoft paid out the ass to make all of the gaming news outlets say Ass Shadows was good and not a flop contributing to their corporate-wide demise.

In case anyone is unaware, the filename of every image OP posts is file.
It makes samefag attempts like this
>>718468041
Particularly funny, but it also highlights that a second white knight didn’t ride into the thread to defend ubisoft’s virtue.
It really is just him.

>>718471765
>>718468324
what's wrong with file.png? half my files are file.pngs

>>718472101
Twitter newfag retards don't know about 4chanx
Please don't pay them any mind

>>718471850
Someone bought it because it wasn't a disastrous failure, but given how asterisk heavy even that news article, I doubt it sold impressively

>>718470694
?
I'm not on Ubisoft's side.

>>718471173
based phil dumping all the wokeshitters

>>718471557
it is physical only, why are you posting a different chart? nigger
>>718471725
>not even 6 months
KEEEEEEEEEEEEK
>it was the best selling game!
>in prague
>on a sunday
>at 12 pm
>in the local gamestop
AAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA

>>718467448 (OP)
grifters lost bigly on this. people already have anti-woke fatigue and are ignoring grifter pushed outrage campaigns

>>718471557
>the data is similar
No its not, Wilds have 2x the actual sales than ac has the "players"

>>718474387
>still no sales numbers
Desperate, arent you?