Ubisoft has labelled Assassin’s Creed Mirage its greatest new-gen launch up to now by way of unit gross sales.
The sport was launched on October 5 for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and PC, and an iPhone 15 Pro model is ready to observe in early 2024.
“With the variety of gamers being in step with previous profitable launches akin to Assassin’s Creed Origins and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, we’re humbled by the constructive reception,” Ubisoft mentioned on Wednesday.
“We are proud to additionally share that Assassin’s Creed Mirage is the largest New Gen launch by way of items gross sales to this point at Ubisoft (PS5, Xbox Series X-S).”
Mirage’s improvement was led by Ubisoft Bordeaux, the studio behind Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s Wrath of the Druids enlargement.
Billed as a love letter to the unique Assassin’s Creed, gameplay is concentrated on parkour, stealth and assassinations, marking a return to the action-adventure type of video games launched previous to the extra expansive RPG-style sequence entries Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla.
During the sport’s first week, Ubisoft mentioned payers have spent 479 collective years parkouring the rooftops of Baghdad and brought 60 million Leaps of Faith.
According to VGC’s Assassin’s Creed Mirage overview, the sport’s “brief, sharp journey by means of the blood-soaked streets of Baghdad” affords “a welcome return to the sequence’ roots” and looks like “a breath of contemporary air within the limitless sea of open world journey video games”.
The sport’s artistic director, Stéphane Boudon, mentioned in July that Ubisoft wasn’t planning to launch any Assassin’s Creed Mirage DLC.
