Assassin’s Creed Shadows was good. So, Ubisoft’s decided to do the same thing with some of the “biggest productions” it currently has in the works, pushing several unnannounced games back in the hopes that more development time will yield more success.
This was announced in the publisher’s latest earnings release, in which it also reflets on what’s been a pretty turbulent year for one of the world’s premiere providers of massive games with maps chock full of s**t to do, and has seen it produce a weird subsidiary baby with Chinese giant Tencent.
After bigging up Shadows’ launch as a “defining moment” that re-affirmed the entire concept of people liking Assassin’s Creed, the release revealed that the publisher’s been reviewing the portfoloio of stuff it’s currently working on.
“After a thorough review of its pipeline that took place from October to December, the Group decided to provide additional development time to some of its biggest productions in order to create the best conditions for success,” Ubisoft wrote. “This decision has already been beneficial to the quality of Assassin’s Creed Shadows. As a consequence, FY2026-27 and FY2027-28 will see significant growth vs. FY2025-26 on the back of strong content coming from the Group’s largest brands.”
Well, at least it’s doing the same thing over and over again with the expectation of getting similar results, rather than different results – the latter being the thing Vaas warned us all about repeatedly during the course of Far Cry 3. Is this strategy the definition of sanity? We’ll have to see.
Meanwhile, Ubisoft declared that the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake – the game it teased last year by showing off a 30 second clip of a candle doing candle things – will come out during the current financial year that ends in March 2026. It had already been given a broad 2026 date in that candle teaser, so you can pencil it in for sometime in the first few months of next year.
Anno 117: Pax Romana, Rainbow Six Mobile, and The Division Resurgence are all also set to come out in the upcoming biz year, along with some more games that remain unnannounced for now but with these delays, it’s looking like there could be a bit of a fallow period after that.
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