Ubisoft has announced another delay for Assassin’s Creed Shadows, pushing the upcoming stealth game to March 20, 2025, as the company looks for new ways to generate revenue. Ubisoft previously delayed Assassin’s Creed Shadows from November 2024 to February 2025 to give the development team time to polish the game and fix as many bugs as possible.
The new delay comes as Ubisoft tries to generate as much revenue as possible at launch and days after Ubisoft provided a detailed look at parkour in Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
“As part of our renewed focus on quality gameplay and immersive Day 1 experiences, we have decided to provide an additional month for development of Assassin’s Creed Shadows,” Ubisoft said in a statement. statement. “This additional time will allow the team to better leverage player feedback collected over the past three months and help create the best conditions for launch by continuing to work closely with the increasingly positive Assassin’s Creed community.”
This goal is part of Ubisoft’s broader efforts to reduce costs and find new sources of revenue after years of financial difficulties, including failed investments in the NFT space and disappointing performance of XDefiant. Ubisoft released XDefiant in May 2024 and announced its closure in December 2024 when the game failed to meet the company’s expectations.
The company’s CEO, Yves Guillemot, said Ubisoft had established an advisory panel to find “transformational strategic and capitalist options to extract the best value for stakeholders” and did not rule out the possibility of selling Ubisoft or parts of it to a third party. In 2024 A Bloomberg Report sources familiar with Ubisoft’s plans believe that Tencent may submit an offer to buy the company. In a statement on Thursday, Guillemot said Ubisoft would inform the market in accordance with regulations “if and when the transaction goes through.”
