Ubisoft delays key titles

By Robert Purchese Published 2 January, 2008

While Creed wins bread.

Ubisoft has revealed that three of its key titles for 2008 will now arrive later than expected.

Those slipping into fiscal 2008 - which begins in April - are Far Cry 2, Tom Clancy's EndWar and Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway.

This will keep development costs down for the time being and help the publisher pump out some impressive financial results for the third quarter and whole of 2007, as it boosts sales predictions for Assassin's Creed from three to five million and churns out more casual content to fill shelves.

Full third-quarter financial results are due out on 23rd February, and are expected to have risen by around 20 per cent over last year. Interesting if you like and possibly dream about piles of money.

Assassin's Creed was released in November and caused a bit of a commotion with its critical reception, failing to produce the sort of marks many had expected.

Still, it took the number one spot in the charts over Christmas and continues to sell by the bucket load. Pop over to our Assassin's Creed review to find out why.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (17) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • thepiedpiper #1 4 years ago

    Ubisoft? Ubiwaiting more like.

  • NewbieZilla #2 4 years ago

    Good, not another delay on Conviction.

  • bad09 #3 4 years ago

    I'm with NewbieZilla, I'm glad Conviction isn't delayed!

  • space_ace #4 4 years ago

    ... on Conviction.

    what i was thinking exactly!

  • DonnieDarko333 #5 4 years ago

    So BIA is now any date from April 2008? Jeez....

  • Moogrose #6 4 years ago

    Yeah - i'm glad for conviction, but hearbroken over the delay of BIA:HH.

    So its not all bad i suppose.

  • Carpathian #7 4 years ago

    No need to head over to the Creed page - anybody can see it was the almost constant rotation of THAT advert which swung it for present-buyers across the land.

    "Teardrop"?

    Yeah, once you realised by Boxing Day that the game itself wasn't all that amazing......
    Edited by 1 at 02/01/08 @ 14:55

  • Retroid #8 4 years ago

    /Really liked Creed

    :p

    Frankly I'm happier to hear of games being delayed rather than them being rushed out before they're finished.

  • alimokrane #9 4 years ago

    And who told you guus that Conviction is arriving before April ??? Ubisoft never mentioned an expected released month for Conviction so that could well be after April anyway .... Oh well ...

    I want a NEW prince of persia and where the bloody hell is my beyond good and evil sequel ???

    Oh and PS: what's with all the Assassins Creed Hate ??? I loved that game despite its flaws, I am sure the sequel will doctore the repitition aspect so CHILL!
    Edited by 1 at 02/01/08 @ 15:23

  • Carpathian #10 4 years ago

    @alimokrane: I don't it's as much "hate" as "frustrated disappointment".

    It was a 7 or 8 scoring game that, for the want of a little final work and a few less repetitive mission structures, could easily have been much better.

    Completely with you on the BG&E sequel though - want !

  • bdc #11 4 years ago

    I'm good with the Farcry 2 delay, take your sweet time with it Ubisoft. Couldn't care less about the other titles.

  • Triggerhappytel #12 4 years ago

    "and churns out more casual content to fill shelves."

    And churns out more complete and utter fucking shit, like Imagine: Babies or fucking Dogz, more like.

  • zoidberg #13 4 years ago

    who doesn't like piles of money? did you really need to ask EG?

    in any case, people are having too much fun making crysis to work than to care about far cry 2 at this point.

  • Ryze #14 4 years ago

    Can't say I hate AC, but it's got to that point where the repetition has set in and my attention is waning.

    I can't say whether I'll last the course and get it completed.

    Gorgeous game though - great engine, fun to piss about in for hours on end.

    GTA Jerusalem City

  • FruitMerchant #15 4 years ago

    this has me pissed off. they are delaying a better game because of the inexplicable success of a crap game over Christmas.

  • markypants #16 4 years ago

    AC is in no way crap... It is just the gaming equivalent of pulling a sexy hot chick and then after a few hours of looking at her, getting her naked and realising that she has a cock...


    /walks slowly out of comment thread.

  • captainrentboy #17 4 years ago

    Imagine: Fucking Dogz!
    That's going to be an awesome title.

  • BurningR #18 4 years ago

    Do you mean "fucking dogz" or just fucking "dogz"? There's a big difference you know. (I'd realy like to see the first title, complete with a cute cover and no indication of the content on the inside *mommyyyyyyyy!*) :D

    Reminds me of one day where the local TV-station forgot to turn of the weekly sunday night porn cavalcade, so at 7 AM, when the kids turned on the telly, they saw something slightly different than the cartoons they expected...