Assassin’s Creed Shadows was good. So, Ubisoft’s determined to do the identical factor with a few of the “largest productions” it presently has within the works, pushing a number of unnannounced video games again within the hopes that extra growth time will yield extra success.
This was introduced within the writer’s latest earnings release, wherein it additionally reflets on what’s been a reasonably turbulent yr for one of many world’s premiere suppliers of large video games with maps chock stuffed 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 the complete idea of individuals liking Assassin’s Creed, the discharge revealed that the writer’s been reviewing the portfoloio of stuff it is presently engaged on.
“After an intensive assessment of its pipeline that came about from October to December, the Group determined to offer extra growth time to a few of its largest productions so as to create one of the best situations 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 development vs. FY2025-26 on the again of robust content material coming from the Group’s largest manufacturers.”
Effectively, no less than it is doing the identical factor again and again with the expectation of getting related outcomes, reasonably than totally different outcomes – the latter being the factor Vaas warned us all about repeatedly in the course of 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 in the course of the present monetary yr 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 yr.
Anno 117: Pax Romana, Rainbow Six Cellular, and The Division Resurgence are all additionally set to return out within the upcoming biz yr, together with some extra video games that stay unnannounced for now however with these delays, it is wanting like there may very well 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!