Assassin's Creed Shadows Delayed Again, Now Releases on March 20 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 09 January 2025 / 2,336 Views
Ubisoft announced Assassin's Creed Shadows has been delayed a second time. The game will now release on March 20, 2025. It will launch for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and Ubisoft Store, and Amazon Luna.
"As part of the renewed focus on gameplay quality and engaging Day-1 experiences, it has been decided to provide an additional month of development to Assassin’s Creed Shadows," said Ubisoft.
"This additional time will allow the team to better incorporate the player feedback gathered over the past three months and help create the best conditions for launch by continuing to engage closely with the increasingly positive Assassin’s Creed community. The game is now scheduled for March 20."
The delay follows Ubisoft's strategic and execution reviews initiated by the Executive Committee a few months ago. Ubisoft wants to "deliver best-in-class player experiences, enhance operational efficiency and maximize value creation."
Ubisoft plans to reduce its fixed cost base by over €200 million in the 2025-26 fiscal year when compared to the 2022-23 fiscal year.
"We are all behind our teams’ efforts to create the most ambitious Assassin’s Creed opus of the franchise and made the decision to provide an extra month of development to Shadows in order to better incorporate the player feedback gathered over the past three months that will enable us to fully deliver on the potential of the game and finish the year on a strong note," said Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot.
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I'm still pissed there is no beyond good evil2. So i'm boycotting this
They don't wanna release it with bugs and glitch to get that 90 average on meta haha!
They need to step up coz they sense their games just aren't hitting hard anymore
They actually think that continuing to polish a turd will somehow turn it into something other than a turd lol This is Suicide Squad KTJL all over again, stop delaying just release take the massive L and move on with your bankruptcy.
So you played the beta or something to know this game is a turd? Can you share more; did you record any video of your gameplay (even the part that was so bad)?
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I first started watching the games announcement, seeing what looked like a ninja chasing a samurai. Was pretty invested up to that point. Then I saw something that shouldn’t even be in actual assassin or samurai game that had me gagging and prompted me to stamp a certified turd sticker on the game………”A Ubisoft Original”
Oh god it was horrible!!! xD fr though, I hate Ubisoft and haven’t played one of their games in at least 5-6 years and intend to keep it that way.
I'm curious to what this was?
I think the game looks bad too (I haven't seen anything for a few months), I'm just curious why you think it looks bad.
This was mostly joking that the “Ubisoft Original” logo is what disgusted me haha. On a more serious note, for over a decade now, Ubisoft has more focused on quantity over quality with their games and their now generic formula that’s burnt me out on them, or an over reliance on live service games. RIP Tom Clancy. I don’t have any faith that Shadows will be any different.
I view Ubisoft as the fast food of the video games industry.
I totally misread the original comment lmao, ignore me.
I don't know. I mean, the last one big one (Valhala) was bad imo (seriously, the director that decided to go with that direction for the quests / blue shit dots) and the loot meaning basically nothing... Should have been fired. But the ones in Greece/Egypt were really good, probably in my top 10 best games of the past 15 years. And this come from someone who did not like any AC before those 2...
Lmao if you seriously can't tell it's gonna mega flop purely from all the info and gameplay that's out there ohhhhh boy you've got problems.
Ever wonder why the black man perfectly resembles George Floyd? That's intentional. You want more feudal Japan RAP music in your games cause black man be in it so gotta have rap right lol
Only way it will sell is totally removing Yasuke and changing main character to an actual legit Japanese man. Oh right Ubi won't do that cause they hate asian culture.
Okay thank you for that information :) Your initial comment makes more sense now.
Idk, the latest gameplay stuff that they showed looked much better than what was shown months ago
Not much better... but yeah animations seem like they have been touched up abit.
I think the problem is the gameplay loop looks boring. I watched a video were they cut every 2sec from 1 kill to another 2 basically. The climbing around and them making cool looking jump animations, isn't enough to carry the game.
The last gameplay segment they released actually has gotten me quite interested in the game now.
Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition releases 3/20 as well. I have a feeling this is the Switch 2 launch date
If so, we should be hearing about the Switch 2 within the next couple of weeks.
I don't think so. But could be a possibility. At this point i think it could even be later than earlier, especially with these sales of the current Switch...
If they keep this delays up they will eventually get too close to Ghost of Yotei and then they'll be really screwed.
The game looks good to me, as the last 3 also did, the hate is completely misplaced but Ubisoft is on such a bad state that it's really hard to fight back.
Right now it feels like the delays are aiming for the best timing for a company buyout, actually.
Might it be that it gets canceled at this point?
Just realised they've delayed the game that coincides with the 30th anniversary of the Japanese Sarin gas attack...
There is no way they did that, they had to have known what the date means to the Japanese people...
First it's the broken Tori gate, now the Sarin gas attack 30th anniversary.
and its now out of black history month as well right? They were banking on sales in america being high due to that.... however I think they were scared of all the other games coming that month, and thus delayed it for business reasons (ei. month with less other big games releaseing).
Yup. Seems like they are deliberately choosing dates and months based on political instances (likely in the hopes to boost sales or talk about selected events).
I do feel like them releasing the game on the 30th anny of the Sarin gas attack is in really poor taste and possibly more offensive to the Japanese than the Tori gate incident.
They could have delayed it till March 21st, anything but the same day of the 30th anny.
We all know why this game is in trouble. It has been funded by entities that don't care about profit, they just want social change. Then again, individual layman investors would like some return for their investments and don't understand what is happening. The social agenda does not sit well with the majority of the actual customer base, the game fails, there are layoffs or the whole company goes under, and that will be the only change this kind of thing will accomplish. We live in strange times, strange indeed.
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