To be fair, Ubisoft does have some history publishing niche Japanese games, so there is some precedent. For example they published Fatal Frame/Project Zero 2 (a niche Japanese survival-horror game itself, and one of the very best survival-horror games at that) in Europe back in 2005. They are also not adverse to bankrolling small, highly creative games such as Valiant Hearts or Child of Light either. Still consider it a long shot though, especially when there are smaller Western pubs working with more niche stuff/lots of creative freedom for the devs, such as Paradox or Deep Silver/Nordic. From Software are used to working with low budgets, so it's not like they need a regular AAA budget sized wad of cash (or much advertising $$$, word of mouth alone will guarantee a serious amount of sales if they do it right). Would say Bethesda is still much liklier than Ubisoft considering Evil Within 2 was a thing and released only last year, so the people who greenlit that would still have been in charge at the time it must have happened for Shadows Die Twice.
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