Ubisoft delays Watch_Dogs Legion and more to ensure quality

Ubisoft has announced in a financial update that Watch_Dogs Legion, Rainbow Six Quarantine and Gods & Monsters have all been delayed and will now release in the 2020-2021 fiscal year.

Due to some issues with the launch of a Ghost Recon Breakpoint, it was decided to delay the three games.,

Yves Guillemot, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, said "Over the past few years, we have delivered many high-quality titles, built a portfolio of diversified franchises and successfully conducted the digital transformation of our business. We have significantly grown our operations for PC, and in Asia and esports, and have further developed our Uplay platform. And we can now draw on a very robust back-catalog, which ended up again above our expectations in the second quarter, including the particularly outstanding momentum of Rainbow Six Siege and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.

However, we have not capitalized on the potential of our latest two AAA releases. For Ghost Recon Breakpoint, while the game’s quality appeared on track – based on E3, Gamescom, previews and our latest internal playtests –, critical reception and sales during the game’s first weeks were very disappointing. As we have done with past titles, we will continue to support the game and listen to the community in order to deliver the necessary improvements.

In this overall context, we have decided to postpone the releases of Gods & Monsters, Rainbow Six Quarantine and Watch_Dogs Legion until 2020-21. While each of these games already has a strong identity and high potential, we want our teams to have more development time to ensure that their respective innovations are perfectly implemented so as to deliver optimal experiences for players

There have been no fixed dates announced for the games yet, but that might come later in the conference call that is set to happen.