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Skull & Bones delayed, Wont be at E3, Ubisoft has 3 more AAA unannounced titles for FY20 (Before April 2020)
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Watch_Dogs 3
NEW IP i guess
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AC is late 2020, not in this fiscal year
NEW IP i guess
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AC is late 2020, not in this fiscal year
Because of a delay? I would take that as they're avoiding crunch by pushing the game back.
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Surely that confirms that they're implementing a Black Flag-esque singleplayer. No way this game is that far out after having been at two E3's and ends up just being a ship game. It looked finished.
Good. Hopefully we can get that Pirate game we deserve. Let us free roam around on land. Give us a proper story campaign instead of a multiplayer-only ship battle game. Make it Black Flag 2 and everything will be good :)
Wouldn't the prolonged delay of a game suggest the exact opposite?
I had the impression that the game was coming out soon after last E3... Did they ever end up having that beta?
I was just thinking about Skull & Bones, what with the recent release of Sea of Thieves Arena mode. Good to hear the team's getting the time it needs, though I was definitely looking forward to seeing more of the game at E3.
The game looked really promising. Its probably releasing next year or its being re-worked from its core to come out as a next-gen release. Sending the team good vibes on the long road ahead and super looking forward to its next showing.
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so what are the three games? watchdogs 3, ass creed ragnarok, splinter cell?
ubi isn't really known for crunch.
I imagine at this point, they're basically pushing this to next-gen and rebuilding assets to keep up.
This game has been such an odd disaster. On reveal, it genuinely seemed like the trailer could've ended with 'out now'. A multiplayer game that just lifted the AC ship mechanics seems super easy to put together, and I don't think they really NEEDED to do major overhauls on what was already there. But now it's been three years, the project seems further from finished than ever, and even AC has kinda moved away from the boat stuff. No pun intended, but the ship has sailed on this concept.
As for the three unannounced titles for this fiscal - WATCH_DOGS 3 is largely confirmed, the new project from the Mario x Rabbids team should be ready, and I imagine the Avatar game that Massive was working on is the third. (If Avatar 2 was originally scheduled for a late 2020 launch, a game in Spring 2020 doesn't seem impossible. And a major game release could help reintroduce the brand ahead of the next movie.)
Edit - Splinter Cell also seems totally doable. Maybe that instead of Avatar.
This game has been such an odd disaster. On reveal, it genuinely seemed like the trailer could've ended with 'out now'. A multiplayer game that just lifted the AC ship mechanics seems super easy to put together, and I don't think they really NEEDED to do major overhauls on what was already there. But now it's been three years, the project seems further from finished than ever, and even AC has kinda moved away from the boat stuff. No pun intended, but the ship has sailed on this concept.
As for the three unannounced titles for this fiscal - WATCH_DOGS 3 is largely confirmed, the new project from the Mario x Rabbids team should be ready, and I imagine the Avatar game that Massive was working on is the third. (If Avatar 2 was originally scheduled for a late 2020 launch, a game in Spring 2020 doesn't seem impossible. And a major game release could help reintroduce the brand ahead of the next movie.)
Edit - Splinter Cell also seems totally doable. Maybe that instead of Avatar.
Man, I enjoyed the reveal of Skull & Bones, but it seems they haven't been able to get it to work yet. There must be some possible middle ground between World of Warships and Assassin's Creed Black Flag.
they can still reveal them, specially if MS reveals their next gen console at their conference.
well, that is unrelated to the discussion then. there are 3 unannounced AAA titles releasing this FY, not just getting revealed.
These 3 games will be released by FY20 though, as they are specifically talking about income.
oh sorry i didn't read carefully, i thought it was 3 new games period.
no way its beyond good and evil 2 right? I havent been keeping up with their updates on that game
if it's 3 new games for this year, then i can see one of them being a new collaboration with nintendo. they probably do consider games of mario+rabbid's scale "AAA".
And why wouldn't they? Mario is only the most recognizable figure in the industry and I'm sure after the success that the first one they probably put a big chunk of change into the sequel.
I doubt it'd be a pure sequel - but I could easily see Ubisoft putting that team on a bigger IP after the success of the first game. If they continue the partnership with Nintendo, maybe that's adding the budget to make even a small franchise into a AAA release.
What I'm saying is that team is definitely working on a huge reboot of Advance Wars for the Switch, hitting store shelves this Christmas.