Assassin's Creed Mirage doesn't have a confirmed release date yet — just a vague '2023' window — but we were expecting it to launch in the first half of next year, given that it was revealed a few months ago. However, according to a new report from the reliable Insider Gaming, Mirage may actually be targeting an August 2023 launch due to internal delays.
The article says that the open world title was originally aiming for a much earlier release date, but it's now been pegged back twice, presumably due to development issues. The publication speculates that stretching development across last-gen consoles (Mirage is a cross-gen title on PS5 and PS4) could be causing problems.
If Mirage really does launch in August, it'll be almost three years since the release of the series' previous instalment, Assassin's Creed Valhalla. That's quite the gap, especially for a property that was once pumping out one game per year.
The report goes on to say that Assassin's Creed Red — the teased titled that's set in Japan — is also facing issues in development. Meanwhile, Assassin's Creed Hexe is apparently doing well for itself, and will possibly enter full production sooner rather than later.
It's perhaps worth mentioning that the aforementioned Assassin's Creed Valhalla also suffered a rocky development cycle. When the game eventually launched in November 2020, it was a bit of a mess — especially on PS4. It took several updates to squash many of its most prevalent bugs and performance issues.
Anyway, we're probably going to see Assassin's Creed Mirage at The Game Awards in some capacity. It's possible that we get a release date during Geoff's big show, but August 2023? That's a bit of a wait, isn't it? We'll have to see how things unfold.
Did you expect Mirage to launch earlier than August? Keep your hidden blade hidden in the comments section below.
[source insider-gaming.com]
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August would be good, provide a good breathing period between it and Valhalla's final content update.
Here’s hoping that AC goes back to its basics and scrap the hole Open World thing. The sandbox exp of the first games was still better.
@SilkySmile89 Mirage was already mentioned to be a return to the classic design of the games. After that it will still be an open world RPG experience
An AC releasing in the first few months of the year? That would be a first. Expected this in October/November like EVERY other mainline AC game.
@themightyant It's slightly different circumstances, though. We need to remember that Valhalla was originally only meant to have one year of post-launch support, but it ended up having two. Mirage is also being billed as a 'smaller' project (hence the lower price tag) so the general feeling was that it would be released not long after support for Valhalla finally wrapped up.
I wouldn't be complaining if Mirage is releasing in the latter half of 2023, though. The first few months of next year are absolutely packed!
@ShogunRok I agree. I think I have six or seven preorders already in the first three months of 2023. Let us breathe, developers!
Also, controversial opinion, but jeez I hope the old gen gets dropped soon. It’s not impossible to pull a Switch by releasing cloud versions of PS5 titles for PS4.
I was expecting around April or May but this the return of classic AC. I'm fine waiting longer if it means they get it right.
I also don't think I buy cross-gen being the reason for the troubles. Ubisoft generally puts their games out on multiple platforms and generally does a good job with achieving parity between all said platforms. I don't see why a smaller, more focused AC would all of a sudden have trouble.
I’m really looking forward to this actually. Bit of a shame it could be delayed but I’d be happy to wait.
@ShogunRok Fair point. I just always expected, perhaps incorrectly, that this would launch when all the others do. Regardless more time in the over is almost always a good thing.
I played every AC, including spin-offs, up to Origins but fell off due to the size and repetition (plus some general Ubisoft open world fatigue, also fell off Far Cry etc.), so i'm looking forward to Mirage and hopeful it will give me what I want as an AC fan.
For me, this is a step in the wrong direction. But since Red is going to be open world I don't mind too much.
Here's hoping the people that was asking for it actually buy it and then don't start "but this is the same as it was back then, so it sucks". That's kinda what you're asking for and the reason AC went open world.
Fine by me as long as it turns out to be good. There's way too many games coming out between recently and the next few months, so I can maybe get caught up somewhat before this comes out. Adding another game to the pile would have just made the backlog even worse of course.
I mean honestly... I'll probably wait for next Black Friday to think about picking this up. AC has a bit to prove if I'm going to consider buying another.
@somnambulance
My guess is that cross-gen will drop off in late 2023 (Usual 2 year period + an extra year due to massive stock shortages etc.). If we're still getting 8th gen games in 2024, then that'd be ridiculous.
@Uncharted2007 For better or worse, Mirage looks to be a different beast to Origins/Odyssey/Valhalla and the AC Infinity titles look like a new soft reboot, so they're probably worth keeping an eye on.
@Lup I think AC games being a mixture of more OW and more focussed is a great idea. Give the series some more gameplay variety
it's true that back in the day AC was pumping out games year after year, but back then they were relatively short 20 hour or so affair. Even if you were trying to 100% the game, most of them wouldn't take you much more than 40 hours. It took me 150 hours to get through Oddyssey, and that's not even a "do everything possible in the game" playthrough, that's just "get all trophies" and nothing more (I mean, maybe I did a bit of side content that didn't contribute to a trophy at the start, but towards the end I was getting so sick of it, I was a lean, mean trophy machine)
My point being that I can only assume that it takes a lot longer to actually make the games than it used to, too
@SilkySmile89
I liked the open world games until Valhalla, they made that map way too big and barren, even the collectibles and small little details are too far apart.
Those of us who preordered got conned by Ubisoft yet again 😠😡
I'm a bit confused as to why everyone here is calling the 3 RPG games the 'open world ones'. Every assassin's creed is open world aside from some spin-offs. The series is THE open world franchise to a lot of people, for good or bad reasons.
Just drop PS4 and expand the crowd sizes a bit. Make it next gen and show that ambition.
@Lup Uhh, you know AC2 revolutionized open world games right? It went from linearish open world in the first one to set the standard for open world games in many ways with the second one.
Currently this looks to actually evolve AC. They’ve been comparing it to Unity, which changed so much about the series for better. The game is “going back” in the sense that it’s actually as assassin’s creed game and not random RPG that has nothing not a lot to do with assasssins.
I get enjoying the RPG games, but why on earth those need to be AC or them taking the name is a good thing is something I’ll never understand.
@SilkySmile89 What do you mean? AC2 Revolutionized open world games. I’m with about going back to the core of the series, but I’m not sure what you mean by open world here. Do you mean RPG?
@Korgon They wanted the crowd sizes of Unity in the game. Those gave them a lot of trouble and we haven’t seen them in any game since because they were so ambitious. Unity is still an unmatched games in some ways. This game will be pushing the PS4 hard. And I think you forgot about how often Ubisoft games have troubled launches. Valhalla had a bunch of issues at launch.
@Jaz007
Sure Valhalla did have issues but generally speaking their games are pretty decently polished. I've never had bug issues with a Far Cry release thus far and the only two AC releases that have been buggy at launch are AC Unity and Valhalla. There have been 12 main titles in the series. 10/12 is pretty damn solid I'd say.
@Korgon Wasn’t 3 really messy to start? but point taken.
@Jaz007
I didn't have any issues personally with 3 but now that you mention it I think I do remember folks reporting crashing issues for the first week or two so it might actually be 9/12. 🤣
Still struggling to finish the last Atlantis chapter of Odyssey. As good as the DLC is in this case, I guess I'm gonna be avoiding any AC games for a while.
@SamMR @SilkySmile89 I'm unsure where I heard it, but apparently we'll be getting both classic and open world games in the future, so everyone is happy.
As in Mirage won't be the only future game with the return to classic gameplay.
@Jaz007 AC2 was a sandbox. I would like it to go back to that. The games got to big, nothing to do between. Travel travel and travel.
@SilkySmile89 Maybe it had sandbox elements, but it was very much open world. Empty space or vast space does make a game open-world. AC2, Arkham City, etc are all open world games. Hitman is a what an actual sandbox game looks like.
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