A Major Game Postponed By Ubisoft!

General news News 10/27/2023

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It will be released in the next fiscal year instead of the current one (which runs until the end of March 2024), so we can expect it in April 2024 at the earliest.

Ubisoft has released its financial results for the first half of the year (covering the period April-September 2023), and in it the French publisher has announced that one of its games will be delayed a bit: “The overperformance in the second quarter and the current positive momentum of Ubisoft’s brands inspire confidence for the rest of the year. The company can therefore confirm its previously announced guidance of strong revenue growth and non-IFRS operating income of approximately 400 million euros without the release of the other major game that it had originally planned to launch in the last quarter of the current fiscal year. The company has decided to release this other major game in fiscal year 2024-25 in order to maximize its value creation.

So there would have been a game released between January and March 2024. Which project is it? According to two sources at Kotaku, it’s Star Wars: Outlaws, and we heard in May, before the official announcement, that Ubisoft would release it in early 2024, although even then the birds were chirping that this release date was too ambitious, and that it could come in the April 2024-March 2025 period instead. That’s why Ubisoft is so clever, because so far they have only officially given 2024 as a release date…

Another game is falling further and further behind, and frankly Ubisoft would be better off just KILLING the game, because there is already another title in the genre that has been running and supported for years, so their creation would quickly be forgotten. It’s Skull & Bones. It’s really ridiculous that the last time we heard an exact release date was last September, when the French company postponed their pirate ship game from November 8th to March 9th of this year, then the company led by Yves Guiillemot moved it to “the beginning of the fiscal year 2023-24”, and now Skull & Bones is already at the end of that year, which means we can’t expect it this year, but at the latest on the last day of March 2024.

Or not even then.

Source: VGC, PCGamer

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