Ubisoft has simply introduced that Murderer’s Creed Shadows has been delayed from its newest launch date of February 14, to a brand new date of March 20, 2025. So, you may have to attend somewhat longer to see some good clouds over Feudal Japan.
In keeping with Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, this comes as the corporate explores potential sale choices, or Ubisoft put it, pursues “varied transformational strategic and capitalistic choices to extract one of the best worth for stakeholders”, which is certainly phrases.
“Since November, we have been thrilled to share our progress via Gameplay Overviews, and the overwhelming pleasure has really impressed us,” Ubisoft’s Marc Alexis-Cote wrote in a press release posted on social media, “Whereas we have already made outstanding strides, we imagine a number of further weeks are wanted to implement suggestions and guarantee an much more bold and fascinating day-one expertise.”
“Accordingly, the brand new launch date is March 20, 2025. We stay dedicated to delivering a high-quality, immersive expertise – fostered by ongoing dialogue between our gamers and improvement groups.” The developer added that “extra updates” can be coming “very quickly”.
As talked about earlier, this variation in date – which follows the information of Shadows being pushed from 2024’s fall window to that February date in September final yr – reportedly comes towards the backdrop of Ubisoft seeming prefer it’s trying into sale choices. If you happen to keep in mind, it was reported late final yr that Tencent was contemplating shopping for the AC developer.
Schreier cites CEO Yves Guillemot as having responded to questions on Ubisoft’s future in a name with traders at present by saying that there are “a number of potential paths to ship worth from Ubisoft’s belongings and franchises” and that the corporate’s management will “inform the market if and when a transaction materializes.”
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