So, if Ubisoft hasn't suddenly become someone else's property or vanished into a financial black hole, did anything actually interesting come out of its delayed financial report? Well, we did learn that Ubi's pretty chuffed with how
Assassin's Creed Shadows has gone. The company's earnings report said that the latest AC (plus "the rest of the brand's catalog") have been "overperforming" against its expectations, though it's keeping schtum about specific sales numbers.
Instead, the only number we get is the flabby metric of "session days"—that is to say, the unique number of individual calendar days that players have actually, you know, played a game. Shadows has, in the year to date, "generated 211 million session days" from among its playerbase, which Ubi says is 35% higher than the average for the two years prior.