...Whelp, not unexpected.
I was looking forward to what Massive Entertainment was going to be able to push Snowdrop Engine to do (although sorry SlimySnake, but I don't share your faith that this will be or would have been the first "true next-gen" you keep pounding the gavel for... would be nice if it matched the trailer and achieved all the developers' promises, but there's bits to read between the lines for those who doubt it'd be that so far ahead of everything else, and now we'll have to wait maybe another year to actually find out.)
2023/2024 <---- the fuck!?
It's a fiscal report, so it could still mean by next Christmas (this is from the "FIRST-QUARTER 2022-23 SALES" report, and it's the end of July.)
But I don't like seeing 2024 as a possibility, for sure.
I kinda expected it after it missed E3.
Don't think Ubisoft had an "E3". They did an announcement for Skull and Bones during that Summer of Gaming thing, and they have a
Ubisoft Forward due in September, also Mario+Rabbids was on a Nintendo show, but I believe that's it from their PR machine.
September would have been dangerously late to announce a date for a tentpole game, but it's a companion to Avatar Way of Water so they would have had built-in awareness with the movie in December, maybe they could have pulled it off if it was ready. It did seem ominous that nothing but developer hype has come out about the game since that first trailer...