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[Umbasaborne]

Damn.

Whats happening with Ubisoft?Outside of exceptions, never really liked their games, but they never had problems releasing them in time.

I think they hit a jam. They were a well oiled machine before covid, then covid caused their games to take longer than normal, and now the pipe line of shit they announced is way backed up. So they cancelled some smaller projects to free up talent to push these games out the door between next year and 2024

 

[Zones]

So Skull and Bones is supposed to carry Ubisoft this holiday?

Skull and Bones for Ubi and Pentiment for MS... truly a battle for the ages!

 

[lostinblue]

are they waiting to see if the film flops or not?

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

"Delayed to 2023/2024" = Delayed to 2024

There’s such a huge difference between early 2023 and late 2023 that they’re probably just not completely sure it’ll make holiday 2023 so they’re just covering their bases incase it takes a bit longer, to avoid having to delay it yet again.

 

[Fbh]

That's a long time to make a Far Cry reskin.
I guess the visuals will at least be very nice.

 

[Hendrick's]

With Ubisoft's current outlook they are ripe for acquisition.

 

[bitbydeath]

are they waiting to see if the film flops or not?

 

[Bernd Lauert]

Skull and Bones for Ubi and Pentiment for MS... truly a battle for the ages!

Pentiment is gonna be great, I guarantee it. Very niche, of course.

 

[hybrid_birth]

I kinda expected it after it missed E3.

Disappointing nonetheless. Wouldve been the only true next gen title released in 2022. This will go down as the worst year of the generation. At least year we got Ratchet and Returnal.

Gamers should be rioting right now. We paid $500 for next gen consoles only to have nothing next gen two years after launch while these companies post record profits.

Last Gen we had cross Gen with PS3 for 2 years. No different now.

We still getting good games like God of War Ragnarok and HFW this year.

If anything the pandemic delayed a lot of next gen only games. In addition to supply shortages. They aren't available on shelves yet.

They aren't going to leave money on the table with the install base of 100 million ps4s.

I expect cross Gen to stop by next year and we will see true next gen games.

 

[mckmas8808]

This generation man............

 

[Elios83]

2023-2024 means the 2023/2024 fiscal year?
So from April 2023 to March 2024?

In any case Ubisoft is in a really rough shape, their usual issues were with quality control and their copy and paste gaas formula ruining every IP but they could release many games on schedule. Now with covid it seems that their development pipeline was just destroyed.
Let's see if they can recover in 1-2 years.

 

[Alter_Fridge]

The Avatar IP and getting delayed

Name a more iconic duo

 

[Balducci30]

Goddammit this looked kinda awesome

 

[Azelover]

I love Avatar, I hope it's a good game.

It looks fantastic, but I don't play graphics, so.. Take your time, and make it good.

 

[clarky]

Anyone fancy an avatar bet on this being delayed again?

Asking for a friend.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

10-year waiting game. James Cameron Approves.

 

[Lethal01]

I haven't cared for a AAA Ubisoft game in like a decade
And I've always had negative interest in the Avatar franchise.

But even I wanted to atleast see the game to appreciate it on a technical level

 

[MasterCornholio]

Time for a weird porno I guess.

 

[Putonahappyface]

 

[Hendrick's]

Time for a weird porno I guess.

 

[SLB1904]

They show fuck all and people expect to release this year lol

 

[MasterCornholio]

 

[ManaByte]

They show fuck all and people expect to release this year lol

It's been in development since 2017.

 

[derrickchase]

I would be willing to gamble thousands of dollars on this game being a complete ass log. There's just no way it'll end up being good.

 

[radewagon]

My feelings about the Avatar license are best summed up by the following video.

 

[ZywyPL]

Wonder how many people will care about the hame such a long time after the movie?

 

[Jinzo Prime]

Wonder how many people will care about the hame such a long time after the movie?

I think theres like four sequels planned to release this decade. So they can release the game at any time between now and 2056 and still be culturally relevant.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

 

[Danjin44]

Damn.

Whats happening with Ubisoft?Outside of exceptions, never really liked their games, but they never had problems releasing them in time.

I’m not exaggerating, the ONLY games I ever like from them was two Mario + Rabbits games, none of their other games ever appealed to me.

 

[Doom85]

I’m not exaggerating, the ONLY games I ever like from them was two Mario + Rabbits games, none of their other games ever appealed to me.

Just a friendly reminder that Ubisoft does have a few things outside of Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and the like in their history.

 

[Danjin44]

Just a friendly reminder that Ubisoft does have a few things outside of Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and the like in their history.

I know but in all honestly Mario + Rabbits series is the only one that really appeal to me.

 

[eastcoastkody]

Division/AC II/Watch Dogs 2

not to mention all the good splinter cells and ghost recon games. Ubisoft makes tons of great games

 

[Chiggs]

Can’t wait. Day 1 for me.

 

[DragoonWalker]

My feelings about the Avatar license are best summed up by the following video.

So maybe there's more paths to movie success, paths less traveled, than "iconic" characters designed to sell toys to (man)children? That's why any no name director can direct capeshit, but there's only one James Cameron.

 

[consoul]

Delaying the game until later when people will care even less about Avatar than they do now seems like a very good idea.

 

[Neolombax]

The game for the first movie was one of my guilty pleasures, I enjoyed the world they built, seemed pretty close to the movie material. The action was quite nice too, you could choose between being a marine or a navii, with different weapons and vehicles to play around with. Quite looking forward to this game.

 

[CamHostage]

Too late, but seems you should have just started a new thread. Too many missed that there was actual news (rumors, but new rumors) to talk about here.

In any case, I hope this game turns out nice, if for no other reason than the fact that SlimySnake has been holding up this game's 2021 trailer as proof that every other next-gen game developer didn't know shit about making next-gen games, and he'll be lost in a fog of rage if it doesn't beat Horizon FW in prettiness...

 

[Thief1987]

Just a friendly reminder that Ubisoft does have a few things outside of Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and the like in their history.

Those are not nintendo exclusive, the thing that only matters for this character

 

[Zathalus]

Delaying the game until later when people will care even less about Avatar than they do now seems like a very good idea.

About that...

Full speed ahead: 'Avatar' sequel again dominates box office

“Avatar: The Way of Water” is the box office king for a third straight week, and shows no sign of slowing down.

apnews.com

 

[Liamario]

I wouldn't give ubisoft the time of day, much less the Avatar IP.

 

[Fart Knight]

This will be a fps right? Why.

 

[balls of snow]

Man good thing 2023 is stacked so ai dont have to pretend to care about this game. Bring me ac mirage.

 

[consoul]

About that...

It's one thing for the movie to continue doing numbers after 3 weeks. I doubt that it'll still be showing 'no signs of slowing down' in 3, 6 or 9 months from now.

 

[FireFly]

It's one thing for the movie to continue doing numbers after 3 weeks. I doubt that it'll still be showing 'no signs of slowing down' in 3, 6 or 9 months from now.

It doesn't need to. With a moderate rate of descent it should hit $2 billion easily.

 

[Chiggs]

Delaying the game until later when people will care even less about Avatar than they do now seems like a very good idea.

Yeah, you're totally with it, dude.

 

[Fbh]

My feelings about the Avatar license are best summed up by the following video.

I agree it's always been weird how little people care about Avatar despite how successful it was.
But this is hardly fair. Avatar was a single movie released in 2009.
Both Star Wars and Marvel consist of tons of movies + TV shows + decades worth of comics in the case of Marvel. Ask these same people to name a single character from the much more recent billion dollar movie Captain Marvel (aside from Nick Fury) and let's see how many get it right

 

[DaedalusGrim]

People are underestimating the quiet power of Avatar again.

A modern AAA Avatar game would make absolute bank, and somehow people would be surprised by that.

A quick google shows that the first Avatar game sold almost 3 million, in 2010.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/avatar-game-sells-nearly-27-million/1100-6263057

 

[mckmas8808]

About that...

Full speed ahead: 'Avatar' sequel again dominates box office

“Avatar: The Way of Water” is the box office king for a third straight week, and shows no sign of slowing down.

apnews.com

This is great new for us Avatar fans.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Another fail marketing... Like LOTR Gollum

 

[travolta88]

This game sounds like it could be pretty good, although after watching the strange blue people for another 3 hours, I felt I'd watched enough blue people for a while.
I guess they're timing this to coincide with the next sequel, which will probably work out pretty well.