Assassin’s Creed Shadows, a new installment of the action-adventure stealth game franchise from Ubisoft Quebec that will be the first to take players to the long-requested setting of feudal Japan, is poised to be a hit thanks in part to PlayStation 5 gamers, according to a list of best-selling games that can be found on Amazon Japan at the time of this posting. A peek into Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ potential sales performance in Japan comes as controversy over the game’s samurai lead continues, with some critics calling Yasuke a “meme” who, while being mentioned in some historical texts, was never a samurai to begin with.
Amazon Japan’s best PS5 sellers include:
- Assassin’s Creed Shadows
- Street Fighter 6
- Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
- Stellar Blade
- Rise of the Ronin
- Assassin’s Creed Shadows (Collector’s Edition)
- Assassin’s Creed Shadows (Gold Edition)
- Gundam Breaker 4
- FFVII REBIRTH
- Elden Ring
The top sellers visualized:
A breakdown of the cinematic trailer that Ubisoft premiered on May 15:
Ubisoft on its new Assassin’s Creed protagonists:
Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ dual protagonists are ultimately brought together by Nobunaga, whose goal of unifying Japan takes his army – and Yasuke – to the province of Iga for the Second Tenshō Iga War. The Igan resistance, though greatly overpowered by Nobunaga’s army, is courageously led by Naoe’s father. The two protagonists find each other through Nobunaga, although, for obvious reasons, they don’t exactly get off to a great start. The pair provide the player with opposing perspectives on Nobunaga and the means he used to achieve his goal of unification, and their overlapping perspectives throughout Shadows ultimately allow for a more nuanced look at the late Sengoku period.