Assassin’s Creed Shadows Collector’s Edition Gets $50 Price Cut After Season Pass, Early Access Cancellation

Ubisoft delayed Assassin’s Creed Shadows final month, asserting that the action-adventure title would launch in February 2025 as an alternative of its deliberate November 15 launch. In addition to the delay, the corporate introduced it was cancelling Season Pass and early entry plans for the sport. Now, Ubisoft is slicing the worth of Assassin’s Creed Shadows Collector’s Edition to replicate these modifications.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows Collector’s Edition Price Cut

Assassin’s Creed Shadows was introduced in May and was confirmed to be obtainable in Standard, Gold, Ultimate and Collector’s editions. The Collector’s Edition, which incorporates bodily objects like a steelbook, the world map, Naoe and Yasuke figurine, life-size Naoe’s Katana Tsuba, a Wall Creed Scroll, an 84 pages collector’s artbook and two sumi-e lithographs, was priced at $279.99.

In a Discord Q&A (through IGN), Ubisoft has confirmed that the Collector’s Edition is getting a $50 value lower and can now be priced at $229.99. With early entry and Season Pass — each of which had been a part of the Collector’s Edition bundle — cancelled, the brand new pricing displays the decreased worth of the version.

The contents of the Collector’s Edition, nonetheless, will stay the identical as initially marketed, however some design parts of bodily objects could change, Ubisoft reportedly stated.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows Delay

Assassin’s Creed Shadows was delayed final month regardless of being in a “function full” state. Ubisoft had stated the delay would enable builders to additional polish the following Assassin’s Creed sport. “This will allow the largest entry within the franchise to totally ship on its ambition, notably by fulfilling the promise of our twin protagonist journey, with Naoe and Yasuke bringing two very completely different gameplay kinds,” Ubisoft had stated.

In addition to the delay, the French firm had additionally confirmed that Assassin’s Creed Shadows could be obtainable on Steam on the day of its launch. All pre-orders for the sport had been refunded and Ubisoft stated that every one future pre-orders could be granted the primary enlargement totally free.

The delay was introduced after the underwhelming launch of Star Wars Outlaws. The firm had stated the sport’s industrial efficiency had been “softer than anticipated.” Based on Outlaws’ gross sales and the choice to delay Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Ubisoft had additionally revised its monetary outlook for fiscal 12 months 2024-25.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is now set to launch throughout PC, PS5 and Xbox Series S/X on February 14, 2025.