At time of writing, November is just some days away, which means we should always have been coming as much as the discharge of Murderer’s Creed Shadows, initially due out on November 15, 2024.
If you happen to hadn’t already heard although, that’s now not occurring – Ubisoft introduced the sport was delayed on the finish of final month into 2025, with a brand new February 14, 2025 launch date.
With the delay solely coming a couple of month and a half forward of the unique launch date, immediately in the course of the firm’s newest earnings name, it was questioned as as to if or not Shadows may very well be delayed once more.
Ubisoft doesn’t suppose that’ll occur, and did its finest to exuberantly present confidence that it gained’t. Per VGC, chief company finance officer Frédérick Duguet took the query when it got here, first explaining why the choice was made, and why he and Ubisoft don’t suppose one other delay will probably be vital.
“As we talked about a month in the past, AC Shadows was characteristic full, so it was near being launched. We wished to be sure that the supply of the expertise is impeccable on day one, in order that was the aim of the choice.
So we’ve visibility for the sport to be delivered with an important expertise by mid-February, and with nice high quality.”
Nonetheless merely saying that they’ve “good visibility” on the possibility of the sport hitting its February launch wasn’t sufficient to cease the query of one other delay being requested a second time. Once more, Duguet mentioned “We have now visibility for the sport to come back on time and with nice high quality.”
VGC additionally factors out that Duguet would later add Star Wars: Outlaws misfiring as a part of why Shadows was delayed. “On the again of what we noticed with Star Wars Outlaws, we have to actually be sure that we include an impeccable participant expertise on day one,” mentioned Duguet.
“In fact there are at all times some bugs, however we’ve been focusing, and we’re persevering with to concentrate on, ensuring that the day one expertise will probably be properly optimised.”
Supply – [VGC]