The Biggest Takeaways from Ubisoft's Q1 Financial Report

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There are a number of ways for developers to release updates for upcoming games and announce new titles. Sometimes these are through joint or individual showcases, sometimes it's through large industry-wide events like E3, or occasionally it's simply through press releases. Another way for players to learn more about games in development is through financial reports that help to shed light on how things are going at a certain studio.

Ubisoft has recently released its financial report for the first quarter of the year. In addition to providing an update on how its franchises are doing financially, it's given some crucial insight into how the development of a handful of major titles is going, and what the future for a number of Ubisoft games looks like. Some of the news was a little disappointing to fans, but other updates have been more intriguing.

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As is the custom with large, ambitious games, Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft's highly anticipated Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora has been delayed. The title has now been pushed back into the next fiscal year, which means that its release could be anytime from 2023 to 2024, barring any further delays. This is a blow for some fans who were hoping to experience the immersive world of Pandora for themselves in a game that promises to be impressively next-gen, but the delay was already predicted by many given the lack of updates or glimpses of the talked-about title.

Another unnamed game has also been delayed that was similarly originally slated for the 2022-23 fiscal year. Like Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, this mysterious title will instead aim for the 2023-23 fiscal year, but Ubisoft has not revealed what it is.