Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced Sales Reach 2 Million on Day 1

Ubisoft has announced that Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced has passed 2 cardinal copies sold successful its archetypal time since launch.

It's a milestone that saw it fertile among the champion successful the franchise and arrived alongside beardown subordinate numbers crossed assorted platforms. Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced's July 9 motorboat saw it onshore successful the fig 1 spot connected Twitch, portion its concurrent subordinate number connected Steam reached a highest of 99,451, a bid high.

"Black Flag has ever held a peculiar spot successful the bosom of the community, and ours." Head of Assassin's Creed marque Martin Schelling said successful a statement. "Bringing it backmost with Resynced was a committedness to that passionateness for Edward’s adventures, and to the unsocial consciousness of state players experienced backmost then. Seeing 2 cardinal players acceptable sail connected time one, on with the large reviews from critics, is the top reward we could person hoped for."

Ubisoft has typically strayed from delivering nonstop income figures for its Assassin's Creed games, particularly this soon aft launch. Early accusation for the monolithic Assassin's Creed Valhalla, for example, saw the steadfast simply confirming its motorboat week was the biggest successful bid past backmost successful 2020. Ubisoft lone said successful 2023 that Assassin's Creed Mirage's merchandise fell successful enactment with the likes of Origins and Odyssey. Assassin's Creed Shadows, the series' latest entry, launched arsenic the best-selling crippled of March 2025 and deed 3 cardinal players successful its archetypal week, but with galore apt hopping aboard via Ubisoft+, the institution has been shy erstwhile it comes to sharing existent sales.

Although Ubisoft said past twelvemonth that the franchise was exceeding its expectations, it's hard to comparison conscionable however Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced sold to different caller entries. That said, Ubisoft's willingness to stock a steadfast figure, alternatively than sticking to subordinate numbers, suggests it's blessed with however the series' archetypal existent remake fared successful its archetypal 24 hours.

"Strike fearfulness successful your foes arsenic you committee and descend force vessels arsenic Edward Kenway, skipper of the Jackdaw," an authoritative statement for Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced says. "Whether blending into crowds oregon starring daring assaults, power betwixt soundless takedowns and fierce brawls arsenic you effortlessly wield swords, pistols, and the Hidden Blade. With a formed of humanities pirate legends astatine your side, defy empires amidst the age-old struggle opposing Assassins and Templars."

The Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag remake launched for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X | S July 9, 2026. Although the 2 cardinal income milestone suggests a beardown start, the time since its motorboat hasn't been wholly creaseless sailing. Some fans person already taken to societal media and the Steam reviews leafage to explicit their disappointment with the game's microtransactions, for example.

IGN gave Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced a 9/10 review. We called it "more than conscionable a shinier mentation of the aforesaid crippled you remember," adding that it "brings what was already 1 of the champion games successful the bid up to today’s standards."

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