As part of its second-quarter earnings call earlier today, Ubisoft delayed a number of its upcoming PlayStation 5 titles due to the continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Far Cry 6, originally scheduled to launch in February 2021, will now release between April and September of next year. The same goes for Rainbow Six: Quarantine, which has never had a firm release date up until now outside of a vague launch window.
Meanwhile, the Avatar game in development at Massive Entertainment has been delayed to the French publisher's next fiscal year, starting April 2022. Work on Skull & Bones is said to be "progressing very well", says chief financial officer Frédérick Duguet. It too is currently scheduled for release by the end of September 2021.
Are you disappointed by these Ubisoft delays? Or are you happy they'll receive more development time? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
[source videogameschronicle.com]
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Not dissapointed. Mainly because understand all the issues the pandemic has caused globally. And unfortunately until there is a vaccine the issues throughout will remain.
Also the fact there will be plenty to play anyway. Bring on Demon Souls and Spiderman and Sackboy
I am not going to be buying as many games next gen mainly due to the price as well as the storage space. I used to buy more games than I can finish (my PS4 catalogue is nasty with 90% of games unfinished) but that will change come PS5 to finish 3-4 games first before buying anymore.
I've lost interest in Ubisoft titles cause all of them are usually copy pasted or just completely change the gameplay into something it isn't.
Apparently there’s an Avatar game coming out. I had no idea.
@nessisonett They've been very quiet about the project so it's still a long, long ways away despite being announced in 2017.
@nessisonett And from Massive no less! I thought they were working in Division 3 or something.
Try to act surprised!
Just to be clear, Avatar, the animated show, not the Cameron movie, correct? Didn't know that was a thing!
That was really expected, but as Miyamoto said,
"A delayed game is always better than a rushed one. Except for non-Respawn EA games, those are doomed from the start."
Also, they're making an Avatar game?
And I completely forgot about Skull and Bones.
@Just_2_milky it’s the Cameron movie one.
Good call. Eventhough it was never scheduled for the PS5 and Series X/S launches I still think a lot of people will be playing other games in February that releasing just three months after the new hardware wouldn't do much to help this game's sales. Now the devs can polish it more and better position it for success. Wouldn't be surprised to see it as a late-August or early-September release to kick off next holiday season.
I just don't get why Ubisoft releases so many games within short periods to start with. Would it kill them if they put all the effort put in these games into ONE solid classic game... I guess they don't care and it's all about shipping many many many games and oversaturating the market and end up killing respect and hype for their own games.
There so many good games coming out in the next few months for PS5, that I'm happy if some get pushed back. Gives me a chance to play big releases now a bit more.
The exception to this statement is GT7. I want it now now now. Gimme gimme gimme!
@TheArt Because they have 18000 employees. Ubisoft is a publisher of sorts, with loads of studios all around the world. They make so many games because different studios work on different games. It’s just like Sony in that respect.
@TheArt Surely there has to be a middle ground between Ubisoft releasing 50 games a year and Rockstar releasing 1 game every 50 years 😌
It is good that they delayed the games, because there is more time to improve them and this should happen all the time, not to release rushed games. I prefer to wait a bit longer rather than get a broken game or made on the knees. Cheers!
Makes sense, they have 3 open-world games out within 6 months that are in some ways quite similar.
Not to mention they all have Expansions/DLC's in the months ahead.
@nessisonett I know that but yet Sony or Bethesda isn't releasing games every second.
@Juanalf I'd take 1 legendary game over numerous average games.
Given the context, it's the proper thing to do.
Games are made by people, and they have a right to protect their health, well being, families and friends.
This kind of work must never endanger the lives of the people doing it. Aside from the obvious reasons and the basic human rights, the talent and genius of the creators will never be at their peak if they live with a constant fear of getting sick or worse.
So it's best for everyone if the companies take all the necessary steps to protect their employees, even if this translates in some projects being delayed.
Congrats to Ubisoft for putting people first!
@TheArt Well Sony kinda is. This year they’ve had Dreams, Ghost of Tsushima, MLB The Show 20, The Last of Us 2, Predator Hunting Grounds, Iron Man VR, Nioh 2 outside Asia, Tilt Brush and Patapon 2 Remastered. They’ve still got Sackboy, Miles Morales, Astro-Bot, Demon’s Souls and the Spider-Man remaster to come out this year.
Ubisoft in 2020 have had Trackmania, Hyper Scape, AGOS and Watch Dogs Legion. They still have Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Just Dance 2021, Immortals and Scott Pilgrim coming out this year. I guess you could count mobile games with them but honestly, Sony releases more games a year by far.
Probably for the crap scores WD Legion is getting because come on its another open world game with nothing in it
Shame. FC6 is the only ubi game I’ve got my eye on.
My hype train is destroyed ....... It still burns
Rejoice every time you hear that a Ubisoft game has been delayed. It might mean they are working up to try something new.
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