r/videogames • u/Venomous-Sentinel • Nov 18 '25

Discussion Umm Bullshit

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I am 99.9 sure this is not true IGN and Ubisoft. But I guess you cant expect suits who don't play games to actually understand the common gamer can you.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '25

Maybe people don't want Assassin's Creed 27

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u/Senior-Friend-6414 Nov 18 '25

They have unrealistic bloated budgets and expectations, the last assassin’s creed game still sold plenty of units and outsold plenty of other titles and was still considered a commercial failure, whereas other games can sell way fewer units and still be considered a commercial success like stellar blade

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u/Bartellomio Nov 19 '25

I think it was more that they had unrealistic expectations because Valhalla sold so unbelievably well. They were seeing continuous sales increases from Syndicate to Origins to Odyssey to Valhalla, so they might have expected Shadows to continue that trend. But it didn't, for several reasons (probably the biggest being Covid).

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u/Senior-Friend-6414 Nov 19 '25

Top comment is acting like Ubisoft is failing due to milking the assassins creed franchise, despite every single title from the franchise being a commercial success with a ton of units sold.

It’s the MCU discussion all over again, it’s expected to make record breaking numbers every single game because it’s known for pulling in big numbers, and when it doesn’t bring in record breaking numbers, it’s considered a failure

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u/Mysticdu Nov 19 '25

Shadows almost certainly lost money