Assassin’s Creed Shadows was good. So, Ubisoft’s determined to do the identical factor with a few of the “greatest productions” it at the moment has within the works, pushing a number of unnannounced video games again within the hopes that extra improvement time will yield extra success.
This was introduced within the writer’s latest earnings release, by which it additionally reflets on what’s been a fairly turbulent 12 months for one of many world’s premiere suppliers of huge video games with maps chock filled with s**t to do, and has seen it produce a weird subsidiary baby with Chinese language large Tencent.
After bigging up Shadows’ launch as a “defining second” that re-affirmed your complete idea of individuals liking Assassin’s Creed, the discharge revealed that the writer’s been reviewing the portfoloio of stuff it is at the moment engaged on.
“After an intensive evaluate of its pipeline that befell from October to December, the Group determined to supply further improvement time to a few of its greatest productions to be able to create the most effective circumstances for achievement,” Ubisoft wrote. “This resolution has already been useful to the standard of Murderer’s Creed Shadows. As a consequence, FY2026-27 and FY2027-28 will see important progress vs. FY2025-26 on the again of robust content material coming from the Group’s largest manufacturers.”
Nicely, no less than it is doing the identical factor over and over with the expectation of getting related outcomes, relatively than totally different outcomes – the latter being the factor Vaas warned us all about repeatedly throughout the course of Far Cry 3. Is that this technique the definition of sanity? We’ll should see.
In the meantime, Ubisoft declared that the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake – the sport it teased last year by exhibiting off a 30 second clip of a candle doing candle issues – will come out throughout the present monetary 12 months that ends in March 2026. It had already been given a broad 2026 date in that candle teaser, so you possibly can pencil it in for someday within the first few months of subsequent 12 months.
Anno 117: Pax Romana, Rainbow Six Cellular, and The Division Resurgence are all additionally set to return out within the upcoming biz 12 months, together with some extra video games that stay unnannounced for now however with these delays, it is trying like there could possibly be a little bit of a fallow interval after that.
Do you assume Ubi’s on to a winner by making use of its Shadows technique to those different video games? Tell us under!
