The current Assassin’s Creed game has become the second-largest profit-generating title for Ubisoft. Compared to its previous instalment in the series, Far Cry 6 also has good statistics.
GameSpot reported about what Yves Guillemot, Ubisoft’s CEO, said during the french company’s latest investor earning call: “It’s not going to be a free-to-play game. This game is going to have a lot of narrative elements in it. It will be a very innovative game, but it will have what players already have in all the other Assassin’s Creed games, all the elements that they love right from the start.
So it’s going to be a huge game. But with lots of elements that already exist in the games that we published in the past,” Guillemot said. The game is being handled together by Ubisoft Montreal and Quebec (causing internal turmoil, as we wrote about this subject before). The game has no release date and target platforms yet. But the French company has other reasons to celebrate as well.
Let’s talk about Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla. Here’s Ubisoft’s press release: “Ubisoft is fully benefiting from its Montreal and Quebec City teams’ exceptional execution on the past three Assassin’s Creed titles, aided by the essential contributions from our teams at associate studios. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla has been outperforming Assassin’s Creed Odyssey across the board since its release, notably with higher DARPU levels. This quarter, the Siege of Paris expansion, whose creation was led by the fantastic team at Ubisoft Singapore, delivered record engagement.
We plan to deliver great new content for year 2 of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, notably in the second half of the current fiscal year. With an enhanced gameplay experience, we released Discovery Tour: Viking Age last week, which the BBC praised as “an interactive and historically accurate way to explore history”. In less than 12 months, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is already the second-largest profit-generating game in Ubisoft’s history, reflecting the remarkable strength and value of the franchise,” Ubisoft wrote.
Far Cry 6 also received similar praise: “The community praised the narrative, the protagonists and villains’ complexity, the stunning and beautiful open world of Yara as well as the gunplay, without forgetting the “Amigos” like Chorizo who touched the hearts of many players as much as those of the unfortunate enemies who crossed his path. This resolutely fun opus saw playtime per player up 25% vs Far Cry 5. Early sales align with Assassin’s Creed Odyssey solid performance, a game released in a similar timeframe.
Far Cry 6 is set to be a strong performer this holiday, with an exciting post-launch plan over the coming months. The game, having achieved positive reviews from prestigious gaming outlets, including a nine from Game Informer and “Great” rating from IGN, is the second major title delivered during very challenging times by Ubisoft Toronto teams, confirming the growing maturity of the studio and opening the way for exciting future projects. The second quarter saw excellent acquisition for the Far Cry brand, notably on Far Cry 3 and Far Cry 5,” the French company added.
Ubisoft confirmed that Roller Champions would be available by April, but the French publisher no longer has any expectations about it. In the next fiscal year (by the end of March 2022), Ubisoft expects to release the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake, Rocksmith+, Tom Clancy’s The Division Heartland, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope, and Skull & Bones.
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