![]() ![]() But one can easily imagine that leadership looked at the bath they were going to take for the rest of this fiscal year anyway and decided to push Legion and two other AAA games (whose launch dates had not been announced) into sunnier climes.īut that’s just insidery speculation. Yeah, delaying Watch Dogs: Legion into the next year affected the new numbers Ubisoft gave out on Thursday. ![]() When you pull out the numbers Ubisoft provides and revises, it’s clear that the publisher, in a year without an Assassin’s Creed, had banked on its Tom Clancy games opening a cash spigot to get through 2019. In advice to investors before a noon conference call, Ubisoft told them to expect “a sharp downward revision in the revenues expected from Ghost Recon Breakpoint.” This is a $60 video game which has a microtransaction structure - heavy on the cosmetics and flashy gear - that struck me as very close to NBA 2K20’s, one of the biggest rainmakers in video gaming. ![]() That’s where Ghost Recon Breakpoint’s developers are today. Let’s hazard a guess that being called out, in front of investors, by the company president, as both a critical and commercial disappointment, is about the worst place a AAA video game’s makers could find themselves. ![]()
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