{"id":86835,"date":"2026-07-30T07:17:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T11:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86835"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:37:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T13:37:58","slug":"christopher-nolans-the-odyssey-sparks-assassins-creed-odyssey-player-count-spike-gives-ubisoft-great-ammunition-for-a-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86835","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Nolan&#8217;s The Odyssey Sparks Assassin&#8217;s Creed: Odyssey Player Count Spike, Gives Ubisoft &#8216;Great Ammunition&#8217; for a Remake"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Ubisoft&#8217;s excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/assassins-creed-odyssey\">Assassin&#8217;s Creed Odyssey<\/a> is enjoying a big spike in active players, following the launch of Christopher Nolan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/movies\/the-odyssey-2026\">The Odyssey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nolan&#8217;s Ancient Greek blockbuster is on track to make a billion dollars at the box office, and has clearly sparked further interest in its setting. Indeed, engagement statistics published by Alinea Analytics analyst Rhys Elliot show that the film&#8217;s launch has also driven thousands of players back to Ubisoft&#8217;s 2018 epic.<\/p>\n<p>Assassin&#8217;s Creed Odyssey has nearly doubled its active userbase over the past week across a combination of PlayStation, Xbox and PC via Steam. Xbox engagement was particularly strong, up from 36,000 to 84,000 daily active users, a leap of 134%.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"the-odyssey-cast-and-characters-whos-who-in-the-christopher-nolan-film\" data-value=\"the-odyssey-cast-and-characters-whos-who-in-the-christopher-nolan-film\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>In what seems to be a canny move, Ubisoft currently has Assassin&#8217;s Creed Odyssey available via Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus \u2014 allowing The Odyssey fans who own a console subscription to boot up the game without any additional charge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Software sales moved modestly at around 400,000 copies year-to-date, but the real [benefit] here is pure player engagement,&#8221; Elliot <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/superhys\/status\/2082590376905539687\">wrote<\/a>, going on to suggest the figures bode well for a future Odyssey remake akin to the recently-launched Assassin&#8217;s Creed Black Flag Resynced. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The film didn&#8217;t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubisoft&#8217;s excellent Assassin&#8217;s Creed Odyssey is enjoying a big spike in active players, following the launch of Christopher Nolan&#8217;s The Odyssey. Nolan&#8217;s Ancient Greek blockbuster is on track to make a billion dollars at the box office, and has clearly sparked further interest in its setting. Indeed, engagement statistics published by Alinea Analytics analyst Rhys&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":86837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86835"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86839,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86835\/revisions\/86839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}