Assassin's Creed Valhalla resulted in an incredible year for the franchise, setting records in the process. Assassin's Creed Valhalla allowed the franchise to have its best year since the fiscal year 2012/2013, which is rather impressive given how popular the franchise has been as of late.

It was previously revealed by Ubisoft that Assassin's Creed Valhalla had a massive launch, beating out launch sales of any other game in the franchise. The series has always performed rather well, particularly in the last few years thanks to Ubisoft realizing it may be better to let the series rest every other year instead of burying developers and fans out with massive annualized open-world games. It allowed the series to reinvent its own formula and be much more focused with each new entry.

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It paid off incredibly well this year as Assassin's Creed Valhalla set new records for the series, beating out the sales of the massively successful Assassin's Creed III from 2012 (via Daniel Ahmad, Ubisoft). At that time, the American Revolution-based game sold a whopping 12 million copies in about 2 months. By comparison, Valhalla gave Ubisoft its most profitable quarter in its history, meaning the game likely blew those sales out of the water.

Although Assassin's Creed Valhalla is critically on par with the last few entries in the series, it had one key area that likely allowed it to dominate. The game was heavily marketed for Xbox Series X and utilized a lot of features for the new consoles, such as enhanced load times, 60FPS, and much more. It was a real technical leap and was probably the most expansive launch game for Xbox Series X and PS5 in a time where there weren't too many exclusives for the new consoles. Assassin's Creed Valhalla offered a great, lengthy single-player experience powered by new technology with promises of more content in the following months, making it an easy sell to people who bought a new console.

Valhalla also connects to Assassin's Creed III, which likely enticed some fans of the other best-selling entry in the series to pick up this entry. Ubisoft will spend the remainder of 2021 supporting Assassin's Creed Valhalla while another team within the studio is hard at work on a new entry for 2022. Many fans have been hoping for a game set in Japan that follows samurai or ninjas. Perhaps if Ubisoft finally chooses to take that route, it could set even more records for the franchise.

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Sources: Daniel Ahmad/Twitter, Ubisoft