Ubisoft cancels three unannounced games and delays Skull and Bones

12 Jan. (Portaltic/EP) –

Ubisoft has shared the changes adopted in its new game launch strategy with the hope placed in franchises like Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Tom Clancy’s, the cancellation of three unannounced titles and the new delay of Skull and Bones.

The current context has led Ubisoft to announce a series of changes to its strategy with which it hopes to strengthen its long-term growth, after verifying that titles such as Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope and Just Dance 2023 have not had the expected performance. in the last weeks of last year.

One of those changes is the cancellation of three video games in development which had not yet been announced and that they join four other cancellations already announced in July of last year.

On the other hand, the company has made an effort in the last four years to strengthen franchises like Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Tom Clancy’sto turn them “into truly global brands”, as he explains in The document which updates its strategy for the 2023/2024 fiscal year, which begins in April.

The new games of these franchises have yet to reach the market, as Ubisoft has pointed out. Some of them will lead the company’s catalog for its fiscal year 2023-2024, which includes Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Skull and Bones.

Ubisoft presented Skull and Bones during the celebration of E3 in 2017. This naval battle game set in the golden age of piracy was initially going to appear in 2018, although successive delays pointed to 2022 and March 2023, a date already ruled out at the moment. be included in the launch of the fiscal year beginning in April -although the game websiteat the time of writing this news, the date March 9, 2023 is still indicated.

The developer is also preparing the announcement of new premium games“including a big one” and free titles under the modality ‘free to play’ of its main brands.

“Our backlog remains very healthy with remarkably robust activity on Rainbow Six Siege, great momentum for our Assassin’s Creed games, and overall strong performance from our live games,” said Co-Founder and CEO Yves Guillemot. .