{"id":21983,"date":"2022-07-22T06:03:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T06:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ubisofts-big-day-of-delays-cancellations-avatar-open-world-game-moves-to-fy24\/"},"modified":"2022-07-22T06:03:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T06:03:41","slug":"ubisofts-big-day-of-delays-cancellations-avatar-open-world-game-moves-to-fy24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ubisofts-big-day-of-delays-cancellations-avatar-open-world-game-moves-to-fy24\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft&#8217;s big day of delays, cancellations: Avatar open-world game moves to FY24"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  Avatar<\/em> is still on the way\u2014but will now miss its original &#8221; launch=&#8221;&#8221; window.=&#8221;&#8221;\/><figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-text\">enlarge <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Ubisoft insists that its first video game based on the movie series <em>Avatar<\/em> is still on the way\u2014but will now miss its original &#8220;2022&#8221; launch window.<\/div>\n<p>Ubisoft<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside id=\"social-left\" class=\"social-left\" aria-label=\"Read the comments or share this article\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><!-- cache hit 169:single\/related:d1890366aecefd128d41c89791358c62 --><!-- empty --><\/p>\n<p>Fans of gaming mega-publisher Ubisoft may have held out hope that an upcoming presentation, slated to stream online in September, might contain a few surprises or confirmations for more big games coming in 2022. The company&#8217;s latest financial disclosure presentation popped that balloon, however , in a massive way.<\/p>\n<p>A Thursday disclosure to investors was paired with an audio presentation hosted by Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, and its first nine minutes contained mostly doom and gloom.  After confirming previously announced plans to launch a <em>Mario + Rabbids<\/em> sequel and the long-delayed <em>Skulls &#038; Bones<\/em> pirate-battling game, Guillemot confirmed two lengthy game delays and four game cancellations\u2014while remaining mum about at least two games in apparent development limbo.<\/p>\n<h2>More like \u201cThe Way of the Wait\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>The arguably biggest news concerns a delay to <em>Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora<\/em>, an open-world adventure game based on James Cameron&#8217;s Avatar movie series.  The game is now slated to launch in Ubisoft&#8217;s &#8220;fiscal year 24,&#8221; which could mean any time between April 2023 and March 2024. That&#8217;s a substantial bump from its original &#8220;2022&#8221; launch window\u2014which could have put it near the December 16 launch of that movie series&#8217; first sequel in 13 years, <em>Avatar: The Way of the Water<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>we could see a firmer launch date for that game during the aforementioned September video presentation, or at the very least, anything that resembles actual gameplay;  thus far, the only hint of the <em>Avatar<\/em> game&#8217;s existence is an &#8220;in-engine&#8221; reveal that may not actually resemble how the game will look in real time.  Still, the game appears to target current-gen consoles like PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X\/S, which could mean the game will take substantial technological leaps not available on past-gen console families.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad_wrapper\" aria-label=\"In Content advertisement\">\n    <span class=\"ad_notice\">Advertisement <\/span>    <\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Guillemot took the opportunity to confirm that <em>A:FoP<\/em> presents a &#8220;major, multi-year opportunity for Ubisoft,&#8221; suggesting that it could come with online game-as-a-service hooks or &#8220;expansion pack&#8221; add-ons to keep players engaged over time, much like how Ubisoft has done with pretty much every open-world game it has launched over the past eight years.<\/p>\n<h2>A VR game that will now only be virtual, never real<\/h2>\n<p>In addition, Guillemot confirmed that a &#8220;smaller, unannounced, premium game&#8221; has been bumped from Ubisoft&#8217;s FY23 to its FY24.  Without further clarification on what this project might be, we must look to reporters like Bloomberg&#8217;s Jason Schreier, who has previously suggested that the game in question is a standalone <em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed<\/em> expansion pack.  This game, referred to as &#8220;Project Rift,&#8221; reportedly began life as an add-on for 2020&#8217;s <em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed Valhalla<\/em> before being converted to a larger stopgap release.  According to the same reports, this was done to tide fans over while another unannounced <em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed<\/em> project, meant to function as an ever-evolving, online-connected hub of <em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed<\/em> environments and timelines, was still under development.<\/p>\n<p>Following the news of two game delays, Guillemot confirmed four game cancellations in all, including two previously announced titles: <em>Ghost Recon Frontline<\/em>, a battle royale concept that had already gone into early playtesting;  and <em>Splinter Cell VR<\/em>, a new, Meta Quest-exclusive entry in the longtime stealth-action series.  The latter had been announced during an Oculus event in 2020, at which time something called <em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed VR<\/em> was also announced (and not to be confused with the series&#8217; &#8220;escape room&#8221; VR installations).  A Reddit post from earlier this year included a video mock-up of a potential new VR game called <em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed Nexus<\/em>and its author suggested that the resulting game will offer a more linear translation of the <em>HUNGRY<\/em> series formula to VR\u2014though its authenticity is far from confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The bloodletting continued during the call with news of &#8220;two other unannounced titles&#8221; being summarily canceled.  since <em>ACVR<\/em> has previously been announced, it arguably remains on Ubisoft&#8217;s development docket, though the company had no further details about that game today.  either way, <em>ACVR<\/em> was not directly referenced during today&#8217;s presentation, and the same goes for two of Ubisoft&#8217;s most elusive in-development games: <em>Beyond Good &#038; Evil 2<\/em>which was announced to massive fanfare at E3 2017, and <em>Prince of Persia Remake<\/em>which was announced in 2020, only to be delayed multiple times.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avatar is still on the way\u2014but will now miss its original &#8221; launch=&#8221;&#8221; window.=&#8221;&#8221;\/> enlarge \/ Ubisoft insists that its first video game based on the movie series Avatar is still on the way\u2014but will now miss its original &#8220;2022&#8221; launch window. Ubisoft Fans of gaming mega-publisher Ubisoft may have held out hope that an &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ubisofts-big-day-of-delays-cancellations-avatar-open-world-game-moves-to-fy24\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ubisoft&#8217;s big day of delays, cancellations: Avatar open-world game moves to FY24<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21479,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ubisoft-delayed-avatar-frontiers-of-pandora-to-make-it-perfect\/","url_meta":{"origin":21983,"position":0},"title":"Ubisoft delayed Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora to make it &#8216;perfect&#8217;","date":"July 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Ubisoft has delayed Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora from a 2022 release window to sometime in 2023 or 2024, the company announced as part of its Q1 earnings on Thursday (pdf). The delay keeps up with something of a tradition for Avatar properties to get pushed. \u201cWe want to make [Avatar]\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Technology&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24277,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ubisofts-roller-champions-will-soon-be-cancelled-its-claimed\/","url_meta":{"origin":21983,"position":1},"title":"Ubisoft&#8217;s Roller Champions will soon be cancelled, it&#8217;s claimed","date":"July 24, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Ubisoft's free-to-play sports title Roller Champions will soon conclude development, just months after launch, it's claimed.Speaking on the Xbox Era podcast, Giant Bomb journalist Jeff Grubb claimed that \u201cRoller Champions is gonna be canceled after Season 3,\u201d reading a message from a source.VGC has requested comment from Ubisoft.Announced in 2019\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Technology&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6952,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ubisoft-reveals-tom-clancys-the-division-resurgence-a-f2p-mobile-game\/","url_meta":{"origin":21983,"position":2},"title":"Ubisoft reveals Tom Clancy&#8217;s The Division Resurgence, a F2P mobile game","date":"July 7, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The next game in Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's The Division series is for mobile devices. Tom Clancy's The Division Resurgence, announced on Wednesday, is a \u201ccanon opus,\u201d the publisher said in a statement. The free-to-play third-person shooter will launch later on for Android and iOS devices. The Division Resurgence's announcement trailer\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Technology&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":21487,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/assassins-creed-publisher-ubisoft-is-having-a-bad-luck-streak\/","url_meta":{"origin":21983,"position":3},"title":"Assassin&#8217;s Creed Publisher Ubisoft Is Having A Bad Luck Streak","date":"July 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Image: UbisoftAnother big Ubisoft game has been delayed. Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora won't arrive in time for the release of James Cameron's feature film Avatar: The Way of Water this December and is now launching sometime after March 2023 at the earliest. CEO Yves Guillemot also told staff on Thursday\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Technology&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24947,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/is-ubisoft-okay-ubisoft-does-not-seem-okay\/","url_meta":{"origin":21983,"position":4},"title":"Is Ubisoft Okay?  Ubisoft Does Not Seem Okay","date":"July 25, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Beyond Good and Evil 2 Ubisoft When you're a giant video game publisher, chances are you are currently embroiled in some sort of controversy or challenge or another, but even though Ubisoft has flown under the radar lately in the face of larger scandals from its rivals, at this point,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Technology&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":22907,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ubisoft-cancels-four-games-delays-avatar\/","url_meta":{"origin":21983,"position":5},"title":"Ubisoft Cancels Four Games, Delays &#8220;Avatar&#8221;","date":"July 23, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Ubisoft As part of its quarterly earnings report, Ubisoft has announced it has delayed \u201cAvatar: Frontiers of Pandora\u201d. The open-world game title, based on James Cameron's film franchise, was expected to arrive sometime before March next year with talk of it coming on or around the second film's release in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Technology&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Ubisoft Cancels Four Games Delays Avatar","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.darkhorizons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ubisoft-cancels-four-games-delays-avatar.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/avatar-listing-760x380.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}