And PS5 version still coming.
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Ubisoft: Assassin's Creed Valhalla had double the amount of players on launch day that Assassin's Creed Odyssey had
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And PS5 version still coming.
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X/S isn't going to be a big factor in doubling the amount of players.
I'm sure many people who buy a console on day one are the enthusiasts who are upgrading from a previous gen console.
It's on almost a dozen platforms, but that's not why it's got this dramatic jump. Odyssey was legendary.
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To be fair. If Cyberpunk would have released next week i wouldnt have picked up AC
Watchdogs and Valhalla for £12 is a great deal. I usually sub to this and EA whenever a new game comes out as I don't tend to replay games.
Odyssey was a great game indeed, really looking forward to this one
God, black flag was absolutely an amazing crossgen title. Fantastic characters and story. I love kenway and that game had one of the greatest and heartfelt endings to an assassins creed game period.
Then Cyberpunk got delayed and people needed something to play. This worked out for Ubisoft about as well as could reasonably be expected. Watch Dogs bombed but that's their fault.
Right, but there's a difference between an AC game coming out on an xbox one X, and AC being "THE" game for your brand spanking new series X.
It's one of the strongest titles on both systems, which helps both new buyers as well as word of mouth for everyone that isn't getting one.
Sales and number of players isn't the same. Regardless of it was always going to do well since it's the 3rdParty system launch game and on every non-Nintendo Plattform.
Both Origins and Odyssey sold over 10 mil, with Odyssesy outperforming Origins, so it could be in the realm of 20 mil sold.
The downplay about this series' popularity continues to amuse me. It's performing well due to many factors, but the main one being is simply because it's Assassin's Creed.
There is no downplaying - numbers of players and sales are still two different things.
It's interesting to see the trajectory.
Unity launches somewhat as a fiasco, players take it out on Syndicate by ignoring it, even though it's fine.
After taking a year off, Origins has to build up a reputation back up for the franchise. Makes a solid splash as a Witcher clone. Odyssey comes out a year later building on the success of Origins and makes enough improvements to reach its own high status.
Banking on the rep of Odyssey and Origin, players buy Valhalla in droves. Valhalla's way more buggy and broken than the other two were at launch (Not to say they were bug free). What will happen next?!
Straw narrative for sure, but that's how it seems to me.
Unity launches somewhat as a fiasco, players take it out on Syndicate by ignoring it, even though it's fine.
After taking a year off, Origins has to build up a reputation back up for the franchise. Makes a solid splash as a Witcher clone. Odyssey comes out a year later building on the success of Origins and makes enough improvements to reach its own high status.
Banking on the rep of Odyssey and Origin, players buy Valhalla in droves. Valhalla's way more buggy and broken than the other two were at launch (Not to say they were bug free). What will happen next?!
Straw narrative for sure, but that's how it seems to me.
Valhalla doesn't seem particularly broken? some expected open world bugginess but I wouldn't say it has seemed any worse than the previous two anecdotally on the internet. I feel like Unity has irreparably harmed the perception of these games when it comes to stability.
It absolutely is. Many players can't even make progress in the main story. To me it's not worth playing in its current state.
I played both Origins and Odyssey at launch, platinumed them both. Unfortunately, 2 hours into Valhalla on PS4 Pro it's buggy enough that I am putting it down until it's patched, to a degree neither of the other games were. I loved what I played, but it was nearly unplayable at times. Of course that's a single data point and not everyone experiences the same bugs or are bothered by the same things. I do wonder how much it has to do with the final 8 months of development being impacted by COVID?
Here's a short recording of some of what I experienced:
Great to see player numbers are strong. I look forward to what this series can accomplish when it has a chance to focus on the new platforms.
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The screen tearing is awful too a lot of the time, its like being in the early 2000's again
So happy to see one of the best franchise IMO doing so well, they have been killing it since Origins through Odyssey and now Valhala.
Well done Ubi amazing job truly.
Well done Ubi amazing job truly.
For me (and with the caveat I'm only 8 hours in) this is the one which finally rubs shoulders with Witcher 3. It's been a fantastic time so far and pretty refreshing compared to relatively small jump between Origins/Odyssey (both of which were still pretty decent)
Every Asscreed gets given away with something. Odyssey also had an AMD promo.
Got to make a point of why a game that allegedly had no hype and is mostly shit according to pre release ERA is doing well like it's predecessors.
I never even heard of Odyssey until long after launch. Odyssey got lost in the shadow of Origins. They pump out far too many of these assassins creed games.
I guess Valhalla is different enough looking/feeling that it stands out, and it's riding the next-gen hype, which helps.
But I fully expect another Assassins Creed game with a year or so that gets forgotten too, because for every Rockstar game that comes out these people try to sell you 17 different open world games.
I guess Valhalla is different enough looking/feeling that it stands out, and it's riding the next-gen hype, which helps.
But I fully expect another Assassins Creed game with a year or so that gets forgotten too, because for every Rockstar game that comes out these people try to sell you 17 different open world games.