Ubisoft has announced that they will be delaying Watch Dogs, their highly anticipated "big" game, until the next year. They have also announced that they will be delaying their racer, The Crew, until the next year as well. This has impacted them greatly; share prices have fallen up to 32% after these announcements. They announced that they are delaying Watch Dogs to give more time to tweak it and polish it, as it has potential to be even bigger than the popular Assassin's Creed franchise. The Crew never had a confirmed release date, so the delay is more or less expected. People who have ordered Watch Dogs console bundles will still be able to get their console, but the game will be distributed when it's released. Ubisoft is working on truly winning in sales in the next generation, and they hope that the quality increase will also help their market share.
Many gamers, including me, are disappointed about this delay. I know I have been looking forward to Watch Dogs ever since I first saw the videos, and I've been patiently waiting for it since. Now that it's delayed, we'll have to wait until the spring of 2014 before we see either of these games. This has also been a very expensive decision for Ubisoft to make. They are going to have to continue to hype up the games and make sure they sell well for them to get their stocks back up. I think that they'll be able to pull it off; as much as I hate delays, you also have to look at other games that are being released. Games such as COD: Ghosts and Battlefield 4 are soon to be released in the next month or so too; in their view, Watch Dogs could be easily lost among these sales giants. I just hope that they didn't delay it because the game was unfinished. That would really suck after all the cool trailers and gameplay they've shown us :(
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I wouldn't worry about Call of Duty: Dog Warfare, their reign is over. I think that Watchdogs will be this generation's new thing. I doubt CoD is going to make the changes necessary for the jump to next-gen greatness.
ReplyDeleteI think this is very disappointing how they decided to move to releasing day to next year. Their stock has dropped in a really high rate which is quite hard to pull it back up. They must lose so much money from it. I believe that if they decided it'd be better to delay it because they can touch up the game and make it more perfect, then i think it is reasonable. I mean everyone would rather play a really good game that come out later than a really bad or poor graphic game but come out earlier right?.
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