{"id":120795,"date":"2020-11-17T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/373880"},"modified":"2020-11-17T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T19:05:00","slug":"assassins-creed-valhalla-debuts-with-record-launch-week-sales-for-the-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/11\/17\/assassins-creed-valhalla-debuts-with-record-launch-week-sales-for-the-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"Assassin&#8217;s Creed Valhalla debuts with record launch week sales for the franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" id=\"docs-internal-guid-ceffcbf4-7fff-860f-e2dd-10391f410cdd\"><span><em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed Valhalla<\/em>&#8216;s launch has made the biggest splash sales-wise of any<em> Assassin&#8217;s Creed<\/em> game in the series&#8217; 13 year history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Ubisoft confirmed today that the latest game, which launched for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC, Stadia, and Luna on November 10, has sold through more copies in its first seven days than any previous <em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed<\/em> title at launch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Building on that, Ubisoft also says that <em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed Valhalla<\/em> now holds the title of its biggest-ever PC launch across all of Ubisoft&#8217;s games on the platform. Notably, that PC launch saw <em>Valhalla<\/em> go up for sale on both Ubisoft&#8217;s own Ubisoft Store as well as the Epic Games Store. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>&#8220;We are truly delighted by the enthusiastic response from players and want to thank the fans for their incredible support,&#8221; reads a statement from Julien Laferri\u00e8re, a producer on <em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed Valhalla<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>&#8220;Delivering this game amid a global pandemic was a true tour de force by our teams and it\u2019s fantastic to see players enjoying the game so much. Launch is only the beginning and we have robust content plans for <em>Assassin\u2019s Creed Valhalla <\/em>that will keep players immersed in their epic Viking saga for a long time to come.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assassin&#8217;s Creed Valhalla&#8216;s launch has made the biggest splash sales-wise of any Assassin&#8217;s Creed game in the series&#8217; 13 year history. Ubisoft confirmed today that the latest game, which launched for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC, Stadia, and Luna on November 10, has sold through more copies in its first seven days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}