Ubisoft Defines New Release Schedule For Future Assassin’s Creed Titles

<p>The next <em>Assassin’s Creed<&sol;em> title not only bucks the trend of annual releases for the historically influenced series&comma; but may set a precedent for future release cycles within the franchise&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In response to a question posed by an attendee at Ubisoft’s Investor Day presentation&comma; Chairman and CEO of Ubisoft &comma; Yves Guillemot confirmed that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<em>The goal is not automatically to come back on annual cycle but to come back on a regular basis&period;<&sol;em>”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This news comes <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;assassins-creed-will-be-sort-of-taking-a-break-from-2016&sol;">hot off the heels of Ubisoft’s news on February 11th<&sol;a> that it would be &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<em>&period; &period; &period; stepping back and re-examining the Assassin’s Creed franchise&period;<&sol;em>” In response to this new outlook&comma; it would seem that longer development cycles are seriously being considered for the next <em>Assassin&&num;8217&semi;s Creed<&sol;em> release and beyond&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<em>We have focused one of our best teams behind what we are working on Assassin’s Creed&period; We have given them all the time for releasing something that we hope to be exceptional&period; We are setting up rules so that they will have enough tie to polish the game and come with something really exceptional&comma; is this is what we have for our first priority&comma;<&sol;em>” chief financial officer Alain Martinez added to the annualization conversation during Ubisoft’s presentation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; according to Martinez&comma; there is still the potential for future titles to release only a year apart from each other&comma; so long as Ubisoft’s development team can do so while meeting the aforementioned expectations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<em>&period; &period; &period; If we feel like we are in the right direction and that we can continue the path and we have enough innovation for the next one&comma; we might come with the next one in the next year&period; But it’s no longer something that will be set up every year&period;<&sol;em>”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>No matter the release cycles for future <em>Assassin’s Creed<&sol;em> titles&comma; most fans would likely agree that a breather from the previously annualized game is in order&comma; and a re-assessment of the franchise could provide the rejuvenation the franchise needs&period; For now Ubisoft fans have <em>Far Cry Primal<&sol;em> and <em>Tom Clancy&&num;8217&semi;s The Division<&sol;em> to look forward to&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gamespot&period;com&sol;articles&sol;assassins-creed-may-not-have-yearly-releases-when-&sol;1100-6434900&sol;&quest;ftag&equals;GSS-05-10aaa0b" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Gamespot<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;