Rainbow Six Siege quietly captures 25 million players

If Assassin’s Creed: Origins does well, Ubisoft could end 2017 with three or four of the biggest releases of the year. But one of the publisher’s biggest and most important hits right now actually debuted back in 2015. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, the online team-based military shooter, has surpassed 25 million total players, according to Ubisoft. And it has brought on 5 million of those players just since August.

Rainbow Six Siege launched December 2015 to praise from fans and critics, but it was not an immediate sales success. Grand Theft Auto V, Madden NFL 16, and Fallout 4 all outsold it during its debut month. And while Ubisoft chief executive officer Yves Guillemot predicted the game would sell more than 7 million copies because of its live services, but it has now far exceeded that estimation.