Ubisoft delays Assassin’s Creed Shadows again

Ubisoft announced a “strategic update” today, and the changes see a hold for Assassin’s Creed Shadows, the upcoming introduction successful the franchise that takes spot successful feudal Japan, from February 14th to March 20th.

“As portion of the renewed attraction connected gameplay value and engaging Day-1 experiences, it has been decided to supply an further period of improvement to Assassin’s Creed Shadows,” Ubisoft writes successful a property release. “This further clip will let the squad to amended incorporated the subordinate feedback gathered complete the past 3 months and thief create the champion conditions for motorboat by continuing to prosecute intimately pinch the progressively affirmative Assassin’s Creed community.”

This is the game’s 2nd hold — it was antecedently scheduled to motorboat connected November 15th before getting pushed.

Ubisoft besides says it has “appointed starring advisors to reappraisal and prosecute various transformational strategical and capitalistic options to extract the champion worth for stakeholders.” The institution says that it will “inform the marketplace successful accordance pinch applicable regulations if and erstwhile a transaction materializes.”

Ubisoft has had a spot of a unsmooth spell of things arsenic of late. Star Wars Outlaws didn’t waste arsenic good expected and the institution besides announced that it would beryllium shutting down XDefiant, a live-service shooter.