The end of the fiscal year is upon us, and Ubisoft’s annual earnings call for the video game giant has arrived earlier today. Alike previous meetings with the investors, we learn a little more about the upcoming forecast from the company and what net projects are scheduled to release in the coming months. As for this coming fiscal year, Ubisoft shares to be launching five new AAA titles throughout the course of 2020.
Coming from Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, he tells that a handful of games coming from Ubisoft will be shipping throughout the course of the approaching fiscal year for the gaming market. Precisely, the coming fiscal year will commence from April 2020 and will run until March 2021.
We have evolved our organizational structure in recent months in order to strengthen our focus on high-potential titles, and we are very excited about the idea of releasing five new AAA games in 2020-21.
Although Guillemot does not provide structure for these unnamed titles will be, industry insiders have done that for us by confirming that at least three of them have already been announced. Noting the previously delayed Watch Dogs: Legion, Gods & Monsters, and Rainbow Six: Quarantine are planned to release over the course of 2020’s duration. However, we also have more details to spread regarding the remaining two unnamed games.
According to Kotaku News Editor Jason Schreier, he clarifies that fans still anticipating for the next Splinter Cell entry will be disappointed for another year. Nevertheless, we instead learn that the two anonymous titles are actually returning installments to well-known franchises. Firstly, Schreier tells that the previously leaked Viking Age Assassin’s Creed game is to be releasing later on this year, as you would guess. But what makes this more exciting is that he then goes on to reference Far Cry to also receive a new game later on in 2020 as well.
Seeing that the latest entry to the Far Cry series with the titular spin-off New Dawn launch almost a year ago, the timing looks to align for a new game. Atop of the two-year pattern that developer Ubisoft Montreal has supported for mainline installments, this only validates that the next game is upon us.
Atop of scheduled releases that are expected for the three pre-existing announcements, Ubisoft implied in their previous earnings call that these titles would also leave a “positive impact on next-gen,” including two other unannounced games. Now we know that these other unnamed projects are Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry.
Stepping back from the big budget projects that are being churned right now over at Ubisoft, Guillemot also brushes upon the anticipated Roller Champions, citing that the project will be orchestrated along with the “other very innovative titles that have a particular focus on social interaction.”
Go read up on our review for Far Cry: New Dawn while we wait for the next title to be revealed later this year.
What Ubisoft game are you most excited to see release later this year?
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