Ubisoft in the present day launched its monetary data for the primary half of the 2023-24 fiscal yr. Among the many monetary outcomes it sneakily revealed that it has pushed Cranium & Bones, its chronically delayed pirate multiplayer journey recreation, into the primary months of subsequent yr. This marks yet one more shifted goalpost for the troubled recreation/
Ultimately report — I ought to in all probability say “ultimately delay,” Ubisoft deliberate to launch Cranium & Bones “early” within the present fiscal yr. As stated yr is now greater than half-over, Ubisoft has now specified the sport will launch within the early months of 2024, or the fourth quarter of the fiscal yr. No, it has not given a selected launch date. At this level it seems like it will save extra time to tell you when Cranium & Bones really launches.
Ubisoft additionally obliquely referred to a delay for one more recreation in its monetary assertion, saying, that the “overperformance of Q2” resulted in giant numbers “with out releasing the opposite giant recreation it had initially deliberate to launch over the last quarter of the present fiscal yr. The Firm has determined to launch this different giant recreation in FY2024-25, in order to maximise its worth creation.” It doesn’t say which recreation that’s, however one of many greatest titles in Ubisoft’s upcoming video games catalog — which it didn’t in any other case point out — is Star Wars: Outlaws.
Cranium & Bones held a closed beta a couple of weeks in the past, suggesting the sport is in a near-playable state. Nonetheless, it has not had a launch date in fairly a while, begging the query I’ve requested earlier than of whether or not Ubisoft ought to simply scuttle this ailing ship slightly than string it out to additional and additional launch dates. It stays to be seen if the opposite delayed recreation is Star Wars: Outlaws, which additionally has but to have a concrete launch date hooked up to it.
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