Ubisoft has announced that it has cancelled six games currently in development and delayed seven others.
The news comes as part of a “major organisational, operational and portfolio reset” which included a “thorough review of its content pipeline” over the past two months. That has led the company to “refocus its portfolio, reallocate resources and comprehensively revise its roadmap over the next three years”.
They say their aim now is to “return to exceptional levels of quality on the Open-World Adventure segment” and to “step-change the group’s position in the [Games as a Service]-native experiences segment”. In other words, a bigger focus on single-player open-world titles and less on live service titles.
It also means Ubisoft says it has ‘discontinued’ six games that it felt “do not meet the new enhanced quality as well as more selective portfolio prioritization criteria”.
Only one of those six has been properly identified – the long-awaited “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” remake. Three others were said to be new IPs, one was said to be a mobile title, and the sixth has zero information on it.
The seven games being delayed are to “ensure enhanced quality benchmarks are fully met” – that includes an unannounced title initially planned for release before the end of March, which will now come later.
That unannounced title is widely believed to be the still unconfirmed “Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag” remake. How much of a delay it would undergo is unclear.
Source: VGC
