In a brand new financially-focused press launch, Ubisoft has confirmed that it has canceled three extra unannounced video games, that means that since July 2022 the writer has now canned a minimum of seven totally different video video games. It’s extra unhealthy information for the writer, who additionally confirmed that latest video games like Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope underperformed throughout the vacation season.
The previous few years have been unhealthy for Ubisoft, because it continues to wrestle to enhance its reportedly poisonous work setting and retains making an attempt (and failing) to launch large video games like Cranium and Bones, Prince of Persia, and film tie-in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. The pandemic has additionally made issues more durable for the corporate because it adapts to workers working from house and all the varied issues that brings with it. And in a newly posted press from earlier right this moment, Ubisoft explains that to assist it climate all of this it has determined to cancel much more video games whereas it lowers its revenue targets for the subsequent quarter.
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Ubisoft says its choice to cancel three extra video games is to assist guarantee the corporate’s power is “centered on constructing our brands and stay providers into a few of the strongest throughout the business.” These three video games aren’t named within the press launch. In an e-mail offered to Kotaku, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot additionally defined to workers that these tasks had been canceled to additional restrict dangers and assist the corporate be extra worthwhile sooner or later.
These three new canceled video games be part of the listing of 4 beforehand canned Ubisoft titles, together with two Tom Clancy video games: Free-to-play shooter Ghost Recon Frontline and a VR Splinter Cell mission. That brings the entire of canceled video games since July as much as seven and that’s simply what we all know publicly.
What Video games Are Ubisoft Nonetheless Working On?
So what video games are nonetheless truly coming from Ubisoft as we head into 2023? Properly, surprisingly rather a lot, even after these seven canceled tasks.
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There’s Cranium and Bones, Ubisoft’s troubled and long-in-development on-line pirate recreation, which did get delayed once more right this moment as introduced on this identical press launch. In order that’s most likely, sooner or later, I believe going to launch. Perhaps? Past that Ubisoft has two Avatar video games within the works—one for cellular and a much bigger, console and PC recreation, too. It additionally has a cellular port of Rainbow Six Siege that ought to launch ahead of later.
Then there’s a ton of Murderer’s Creed stuff deliberate to launch over the subsequent few years, just like the stealth-focused spin-off, Murderer’s Creed Mirage, set to launch this yr. One other one is Murderer’s Creed Challenge Red which is about in Japan and the spin-off Murderer’s Creed Codename Jade, a “triple A” cellular recreation set in China. No particular launch date for both. Oh let’s not overlook that apparently that Prince of Persia remake remains to be occurring in addition to the barely-talked-about Splinter Cell remake, too.
After all, with Ubisoft’s latest observe document and video games turning into more durable and costlier to develop annually, it’s possible lots of these upcoming tasks will—like so many different video video games—get delayed a minimum of a couple of times. And that’s assuming they aren’t simply canceled outright and get added to Ubisoft’s rising listing of canned video games.