Ubisoft cancels 3 unannounced games, Skull and Bones delayed again

[Lord Mittens]

Ubisoft cancels three unannounced titles as it aims to focus on its 'biggest brands' following lower than expected sales.

2023-24 will see launches of AC Mirage, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Skull & Bones and other games, including a 'large one'.

Isn't this the 6th time skull and bones has been delayed?

 

[TubzGaming]

Skull and Bones should have came out 3-5 years after Black Flag while the hype was still there but now it has been so long i don't even know anyone that wants to play it now.

 

[Lord Mittens]

Skull and Bones should have came out 3-5 years after Black Flag while the hype was still there but now it has been so long i don't even know anyone that wants to play it now.

Black flag was such a good pirate game.

 

[Gods&Monsters]

4 games in July + 3 more. They should tell us the titles so we know what we're missing.

 

[voke]

Something about Ubisoft is so strange now. Somewhere last gen they lost all of their identity. Like I cannot bring myself to be interested in anything they put out.

 

[Gediminas]

how out of touch with reality you have to be greenlight RS Extraction? and leave Splinter Cell to rot?

 

[Lord Mittens]

how out of touch with reality you have to be greenlight RS Extraction? and leave Splinter Cell to rot?

Yup. It baffles me how they've put splinter cell aside.

 

[Zzero]

Surely BG&E2 has to be one of these, they can't keep throwing good money after bad. Scrolling down my list of Ubisoft studios, could also include the unannounced Reflections/Leamington game, whatever Stockholm is doing, a Watchdogs sequel and maybe an early in development Farcry? Is Farcry cheap to produce?

 

[Lord Mittens]

Surely BG&E2 has to be one of these, they can't keep throwing good money after bad. Scrolling down my list of Ubisoft studios, could also include the unannounced Reflections/Leamington game, whatever Stockholm is doing, a Watchdogs sequel and maybe an early in development Farcry? Is Farcry cheap to produce?

I don't see why farcry wouldn't be, they used a lot of the same assets from past games... Far cry primal was an exact copy of the far cry 4 map.

 

[peter42O]

Hoping that the Immortals Fenyx Rising sequel isn't one of the cancelled games.

 

[Elder Legend]

Hoping that the Immortals Fenyx Rising sequel isn't one of the cancelled games.

Agreed. It was a great hidden gem.

 

[Satoru]

They should just cancel Skull and Bones. They have probably invested more in that game than they will ever make back, it's just sunken cost fallacy atm.

 

[Bryank75]

What an absolute shame, it just goes to show how difficult making games can be...

I really wanted a new Splinter Cell from Ubisoft and now we are all left to guess if an attempt at that has been cancelled.

How many single player games have been cancelled or how many GAAS did they green light (instead of single player games) in the pursuit of the green that are now not viable for one reason or another. I worry about all the live-service games Sony has in the works now too.... how much money is going to be wasted?

Running after money instead of enabling creativity and passion will always be the wrong way IMO.

 

[AshHunter216]

There's a rumor from Jeff Grubb (take with a grain of salt) that Ubisoft was asking to be bought and most said no.

 

[Bryank75]

There's a rumor from Jeff Grubb (take with a grain of salt) that Ubisoft was asking to be bought and most said no.

Didn't Tencent buy a chunk of them recently? Surely they can't be hurting that much...

 

[Satoru]

There's a rumor from Jeff Grubb (take with a grain of salt) that Ubisoft was asking to be bought and most said no.

He probably came up with that one between big macs.

 

[AshHunter216]

He probably came up with that one between big macs.

Dude seems to know a lot about Xbox, but anyone else, especially Playstation, he's less accurate.

 

[Satoru]

Dude seems to know a lot about Xbox, but anyone else, especially Playstation, he's less accurate.

He's probably paid by MS to leak Xbox stuff, that's how he knows. He's part of the Destin group of professional astroturfers.

 

[Zzero]

There's a rumor from Jeff Grubb (take with a grain of salt) that Ubisoft was asking to be bought and most said no.

They were definitely looking for investors to avoid yet another hostile takeover attempt, but that's what the Recent sale was all about. For a company that really wants to control itself, it does an exceptionally bad job of controlling itself, I can't think of another major publisher with as high an employee to yearly game released ratio as them.

 

[Gediminas]

who wants buy 20000 employers?