Ubisoft's new Avatar game, Frontiers of Pandora, will not launch on schedule. The company announced today as part of its earnings briefing that the game is now coming next fiscal year. Ubisoft delayed a second game as well.
Frontiers of Pandora is developed by Massive, the team that made The Division. This isn't the only game that Massive is working on, as it's also making an open-world Star Wars game.
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«We are committed to delivering a cutting-edge immersive experience that takes full advantage of next-gen technology, as this amazing global entertainment brand represents a major multi-year opportunity for Ubisoft,» the publisher said of the Avatar game delay.
While Frontiers of Pandora has shifted, James Cameron's new Avatar film, The Way of Water, comes to theaters this December.
Frontiers of Pandora is not the only game Ubisoft delayed, as it also confirmed that a «smaller unannounced premium» game has shifted to next fiscal year. The game is unannounced, so we don't know what it is.
Ubisoft's FY 2023-24 begins April 1, 2023 and ends June 30, 2024, so Frontiers of Pandora and the unannounced «smaller» premium game will be released sometime in that window. That is, of course, barring any further scheduling changes that could happen.
Ubisoft attributed the game delays to «ongoing constraints» across the video game industry.
«While this additional development time is a reflection of the current ongoing constraints on productions
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