Ubisoft is Hoping to Launch 'A Lot of Games' This Next Fiscal Year

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Ubisoft says that it has «a lot of games» that will be launching in the next financial year as part of a larger conversation regarding the company's recent development issues. 2022 was a challenging year for Ubisoft in a number of ways, including a lack of titles from major franchises like Assassin's Creed. As reassurance, both to Ubisoft fans and financial partners, the company is pointing to the upcoming year as a return to the consistent releases expected of the major publisher.

This past month Ubisoft was forced to hold an emergency investor call after it announced that it was canceling three games mid-development. This was after canceling four other projects already in 2022. It wasn't just the cancelations that had drawn criticism and skepticism, but also a series of high-profile delays for projects including Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Skull and Bones. The cancelations were said to be so Ubisoft could focus on fewer games going forward.

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Ubisoft is once again addressing these concerns as part of its quarterly earnings call, in which CEO Yves Guillemot tried to paint a bright picture for the publisher's upcoming year. Discussing Ubisoft's recent slew of game cancelations, Guillemot said that the decision was «really helping all the other games that are progression well.» In other words, the resources Ubisoft has shifted from its canceled games are improving the development of other titles.

As a result, Ubisoft is planning to launch «a lot of games» in the next financial year, which will run from April 2023 through March 2024. Guillemot also says that Ubisoft now has the «right number of games,» implying that the company was perhaps pushing beyond a stable number of projects in 2022