Ubisoft Backs Out of Tokyo Game Show at Eleventh Hour, Cancels Livestream | Push Square

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In news unlikely to alter the downward trajectory of its dwindling stock price, Ubisoft has pulled out of the imminent Tokyo Game Show, citing «various circumstances» and apologising for the short notice.

Ubisoft Japan made the announcement via press release, which was quickly picked up and translated. Due to these unexplained but clearly disruptive «circumstances,» the publisher's planned livestream will no longer go ahead. Ubisoft had promised news and updates on Assassin's Creed Shadows, Star Wars Outlaws, Rainbow Six: Siege, and XDefiant.

Tokyo Game Show kicks off tomorrow, September 26th, and runs until the 29th. One of the world's largest gaming exhibitions, the event is held in the massive Makuhari Messe convention centre in Chiba, located just outside of Tokyo. We'll be keeping a close eye on the event and will, of course, bring word of any relevant PlayStation news.

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What do you think is going on over at Ubisoft? What does «various circumstances» even mean? Is that a technical thing? Remain vague in the comments section below.

Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.

I'm sure there's a multitude of reasons why they did this, but I choose to believe its because Ghost of Yotei made them feel too inadequate.

Ghost of Yotei has overshadowed them

This was announced this morning, 12 hours before State of Play. I absolutely hate Ubisoft too, soulless and generic slop but Sucker Punch had nothing to do with this one. Shadows is poison to their brand over there at the moment.

Probably from the AC Shadows «outrage». This is why we can't have nice things.

Because people