Its become clear in the dayssinceAssassins Creed Shadowslaunched last week that the open world action RPG has got off to the solid start that the embattled Ubisoft would have been hoping for, with over 2 million players in its first two days. Unsurprisingly, thats also reflected in the games physical launch sales in the UK.As shared by journalist Christopher Dring on BlueSky,Assassins Creed Shadowshas enjoyed the biggest physical launch for a game in the UK this year. It has, in fact, even comfortably outsoldMonster Hunter Wilds,to put its start into perspective.Meanwhile, it is also performing significantly better than Ubisofts last major AAA release, Star Wars Outlaws,having sold more physical copies in its first week thatOutlawsdid in its first three months. However,Shadowslaunch sales are still well short ofwhat 2020sAssassins Creed Valhallamanaged, according to Dring.Assassins Creed Shadowsis available on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. Read our review of the game through here, where we awarded it a score of 9/10.In terms of physical sales, Assassin's Creed Shadows is the biggest UK game launch this year, comfortably ahead of Monster Hunter Wilds. It's also sold more boxed copies in 1 week than Star Wars Outlaws managed in 3 months.But it's well short of 2020's Valhalla (GfK data) Christopher Dring (@dringo.bsky.social) 2025-03-23T19:05:32.902Z