Ubisoft have confirmed that Assassin’s Creed Odyssey will, like many of their other games, be supported for a “couple of years”. This means there will not be an Assassin’s Creed title for 2019.
“On Assassin’s, we had a game [in 2018] and we have one this year, but we are not going to have a full-fledged Assassin’s next year,” said Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot. “It’s just because the team were working separately, so we have two games now, one year after the other. But next year you’re not going to have a fully fledged one.”
Ubisoft will need a big open world game to prop up Christmas 2019, and as we’ve just had a Far Cry it’s pretty obvious 2019 will see Watch Dogs 3. That game has been in production for quite a while and from what I have heard it will be set quite literally in my own back yard, in Brixton, London.
Source: Gamespot
MrYd
That’s a shame. Odyssey so far looks like more of the same thing we had last year. I was hoping they’d do a proper AC game next year. None of this enormous empty world that looks quite nice nonsense.
Still, if Odyssey is just more of the same, and comes out around the time of RDR2, it’s going to do badly and they might do something different for 2020. Or it’ll sell loads because people like tedious, empty worlds full of badly acted characters as long as it looks nice and has the AC brand slapped on it.
And Watch Dogs 3 isn’t going to make up for a big AC shaped whole in Ubisofts plans, is it? How badly are they going to try and make that appeal to people who didn’t like the previous games after what they did with the last one?
Foxhound_Solid
Doesn’t surprise me – they are at a bit of a cross roads as their new IP isn’t well received and their current are suffering [for me at least] with a little fatigue.