Ubisoft has been struggling as a company in recent years with job cuts, studio closures, game cancellations and declining revenue.
Despite all that, they recently announced major restructuring for the company, which will see its creative teams restructured into autonomous ‘creative houses’.
That includes the Tencent-backed subsidiary Vantage Studios, which will shepherd the company’s most famous franchises – “Assassin’s Creed,” “Far Cry”, and “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six”.
In a new interview with Variety, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has teased that the arrangement is set to result in a number of new entries in at least two of those franchises:
“We have a solid pipeline underway across Vantage Studios. Under the Assassin’s Creed brand, several titles are in development, spanning both single-player and multiplayer experiences, with the ambition to further grow a community that exceeded 30 million players last year. On ‘Far Cry,’ anticipation is high, and we currently have two very promising projects in development.
With Vantage Studios established, we have early evidence that our new operating model better empowers our teams to be fully focused on their franchises, which, over time, will translate into both greater predictability in our pipeline and stronger engagement from our players.”
He also teased that the recently released “Rayman: 30th Anniversary Edition” is just the “first step in bringing the brand back” and that the company will soon share news about the future of Rayman.
