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Ubisoft announces no new Assassin’s Creed this year amid a 30% decline in revenue
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Published onFebruary 11, 2016
published onFebruary 11, 2016
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The developer and publisher behind a number of popular franchises like Assassin’s Creed, the Tom Clancy games, and Far Cry, Ubisoft, announced today it will be taking a break from the developing the next Assassin’s Creed title in 2016.
For the past six years Ubisoft has churned out one Assassins Creed after another like clockwork. The most recent title in the series, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate was launched just before the holiday season, andgameindustry.biz’s Brendan Sinclairnotes that the launch wasn’t successful as Ubisoft had hoped; recently reporting revenues dropping by 30% year over year.
Intheir statement today, Ubisoft explaiend:
This year, we also are stepping back and re-examining the Assassin’s Creed franchise. As a result, we’ve decided that there will not be a new Assassin’s Creed game in 2016. Since the release of Assassin’s Creed Unity, we’ve learned a lot based on your feedback. We’ve also updated our development processes and recommitted to making Assassin’s Creed a premier open-world franchise. We’re taking this year to evolve the game mechanics and to make sure we’re delivering on the promise of Assassin’s Creed offering unique and memorable gameplay experiences that make history everyone’s playground.
Perhaps fans of the franchise were fatigued from the constant new titles which did not go far enough to introduce compelling new features and game mechanics to sustain the series’ momentum. Whatever the reason, Ubisoft has much to look forward for Assassin’s Creed franchise in 2016 with the upcoming motion picture starring Michael Fassbender. This year will be an interesting time for the video game industry as popular franchises are further expanding into cinema with World of Warcraft and Assassins Creed coming to the big screen with big budget productions.
And Ubisoft has plenty of other games to focus on in the pipeline withTom Clancy’s The Divisionset to launch in March, and the sequel toWatch Dogs expected before April 2017.
Ubisoft saw great success over the years with Assassin’s Creed. Hopefully, a break in the constant development of new titles will allow the studio to develop a refreshing and compelling return of the historical open world game.
Radu Tyrsina
Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).
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Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they’re looking for.
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