Ubisoft has tried to minimize issues that Ghost of Yōtei may eat into Murderer’s Creed Shadows gross sales after it delayed its flagship launch on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, Sony introduced plans to launch Ghost of Yōtei for PS5 in 2025. The Ghost of Tsushima sequel is about in Japan in 1603.
And earlier as we speak, Ubisoft delayed Murderer’s Creed Shadows from November to February 2025. The sport can also be set in Japan, and takes place within the late sixteenth century.
Throughout a convention name on Wednesday, Ubisoft was requested if the outwardly related historic action-adventure video games each being launched in 2025 may hurt gross sales of its product.
“I want to say that there’s a variety of area for very prime quality video games, and people two video games can promote very effectively,” CEO Yves Guillemot responded.
Ubisoft’s chief monetary officer, Frederick Duguet, stated Ubisoft’s chief concern was ensuring Murderer’s Creed Shadows hits its desired high quality bar.
“On the competitors associated to Murderer’s Creed Shadows, the main target is admittedly to make it possible for we ship a implausible expertise, with the sport’s twin protagonist strategy, with two totally different and complementary gameplays, with Yasuke and Naoe, in a setting going down in feudal Japan that ought to be actually engaging,” he stated.
“So all the main target and all the things that actually informs our choice [to delay the game] is to make it possible for we polish the sport and supply this implausible promise.”
Beforehand scheduled to be launched on November 15, Murderer’s Creed Shadows will now launch on February 14, 2025.
Whereas Ubisoft stated the sport is function full, it stated it had determined to provide its builders extra time to shine the product primarily based on the learnings from final month’s disappointing Star Wars Outlaws launch.
Ubisoft additionally stated as we speak that it’s dedicated to enhancing the standard of Star Wars Outlaws after “preliminary gross sales proved softer than anticipated”.
The corporate informed traders it plans to “swiftly implement a collection of updates“ designed to get the sport in form for the important thing vacation buying season.
