Ubisoft game release update: Delays its mystery "large game" (Star Wars?) to FY2024-5 (meaning April 2024 or later), Says Skull & Bones will release i

[Gamernyc78]

Ubisoft Delays Unannounced "Large Game" & Boasts Record Sales for The Crew Motorfest | TechRaptor

Ubisoft just announced its financial results for the first half of the fiscal year 2023-2024, and they're "much stronger than expected."

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Ubisoft just announced its financial results for the first half of the fiscal year 2023-2024, related to the period between April and September 2023.

The company boasts "robust activity" in the period, with 94 million unique active players, slightly up year-on-year, while average monthly active users were 36 million, slightly down year-on-year.

We hear that the second quarter of the fiscal year (between July and September) was "much stronger than expected" thanks to the overperformance of back-catalog titles and its new games.

Specifically, Assassin's Creed Mirage and The Crew: Motorfest saw strong performance, even breaking records for the latter.

CFO Frederick Duguet also added during the following conference call that Assassin’s Creed Mirage is currently performing in line with Ubisoft's expectations.

You can purchase a copy of Assassin's Creed Mirage or The Crew: Motorfest on Amazon.

Here's what the company said about its back catalog titles released in previous fiscal years.

• Rainbow Six Siege: Remarkable performance with high double digit net bookings growth, continued strong activity on the back of the Year 8 Season 3 release and solid acquisition leading to around 50% net bookings growth in the first half.
• Assassin’s Creed: Sustained performance of Assassin’s Creed back-catalog on the back of the Assassin’s Creed Mirage launch.
• The Crew 2: Exceptional engagement with a record month in terms of MAUs contributing to record franchise quarter activity.

As usual, the press release included a comment by CEO Yves Guillemot, who praised the performance of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, and The Crew Motorfest.

He also talked about the agreement that assigns to Ubisoft the streaming rights of Activision Blizzard's games, which paved the way to Microsoft's acquisition of the massive publisher.

We also learn that the mysterious unannounced "Large Game" which has been teased for a while and was slated for a Q4 release, has been delayed to the next fiscal year (between April 2024 and March 2025) to "maximize its value creation."

 

[Sloane_Ranger]

Feel like its Far Cry ... they started talking about the next one, and then went radio silent.

 

[Gamernyc78]

Ubisoft Delays Unannounced "Large Game" & Boasts Record Sales for The Crew Motorfest | TechRaptor

Ubisoft just announced its financial results for the first half of the fiscal year 2023-2024, and they're "much stronger than expected."

techraptor.net

 

[Zzero]

GaaS Far Cry?

 

[Gamernyc78]

GaaS Far Cry?

I cant stand Far Cry anymore but who knows.

 

[Lord Mittens]

let the star wars game cook

 

[Yurinka]

Nice to see they are back to perform very well, as expected once they are back to release major games. I assume they'll continue performing great with Avatar, Star Wars and so on.

GaaS Far Cry?

The recent Far Cry games already were GaaS.

 

[Sloane_Ranger]

I cant stand Far Cry anymore but who knows.

I think 2 & 3 were peak. (Yes I know some people didnt like 2 due to Malaria and Weapon breaking - but I loved it)

 

[anonpuffs]

Lol skull and bones being sent out to die.

That's the kind of title that should have come out as an early access title 4 years ago, they would have nailed down the game design with public feedback and would've hit release a couple years back. It'd be a better sea of thieves. But now it'sa clusterfuck.

 

[Box]

I don't have any faith in Modern Ubisoft, their games are so bloated and boring these days.

I miss the ps2 Rayman and Prince Of Persia games

 

[Nimrota]

Genuinely how is Ubisoft still in business? It's truly amazing. To go from the late 00s period to what they are now is embarrassing.

 

[John Elden Ring]

Skull and Bones Has Yet Another New Release Window - IGN

It's Ubisoft earnings day, which means we're due yet another update on the six-time-delayed pirate game Skull and Bones. And while the news is not explicitly another delay, the latest update is that we can expect Skull and Bones to launch sometime between January and March of 2024.

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It's Ubisoft earnings day, which means we're due yet another update on the six-time-delayed pirate game Skull and Bones. And while the news is not explicitly another delay, the latest update is that we can expect Skull and Bones to launch sometime between January and March of 2024.

If you haven't been following the saga of Ubisoft's deeply troubled pirate adventure, buckle up. Skull and Bones was first announced way, way back at E3 2017, with a release window set for fall 2018. It has since been delayed a whopping six times, with the most recent delay in January of this year pushing the game, allegedly, to "early 2023-2024." It's a bit of a vague window that could have meant any time this past year or early next year, but at the time seemed to refer to Ubisoft's current ongoing fiscal year, which ends in March. So while hopes weren't high, Ubisoft seemed to be targeting a release window that's now once again passed them by.

In today's earnings report for the first half of its fiscal year (ending with September), however, it gave a new window of "Q4 2023-24," which would be between the start of January and the end of March of 2024. Given that we're now at six delays and counting, there's not a whole lot of reason to be confident in this assertion, especially with Skull and Bones losing its third creative director just last month. We did actually get to play the game in August and had a pretty good time with it, but it remains to be seen when everyone else will finally get their hands on it.

 

[Yurinka]

Genuinely how is Ubisoft still in business?

Selling a lot of games and dlc, they are one of the top grossing game publishers in the world.

 

[Systemshock2023]

I hate the "A Ubisoft original" sounds way too pretentious.

Just make a UE5 remake of the first far cry, with more trigens.