WhileAssassin’s Creed Shadows is among the biggest releases of the year 2025, Ubisoft has just made a decision that risks further disappointing fans.
Assassins Creed Shadows: new disappointment for fans
Long awaited, Assassin’s Creed Shadows is definitely a real ordeal for Ubisoft. Indeed, while the promise of delving into feudal Japan at the end of the Sengoku era is in itself delightful, the French studio and its Quebec branch continue controversies about the next game in its flagship license. First of all, the fact of playing Yasuke created heated debates, to say the least, both in Japan and in Europe. Accused of giving in to the “woke” ideology, Ubisoft was criticized both for offering a black character who did not represent the Japanese people and for making Yasuke a samurai while his status as a warrior is debated within the community of historians.. Ubisoft also had to publish a press release addressed to Japanese fans in order to reduce tension.
Ensuite, Ubisoft’s announcement that the game will let players decide the sexual orientation of the two playable characters also provoked heated debates on social networks. (We recall, however, that historians, including Pierre-François Souyri, have proven that relationships between men were sometimes favored over romantic relationships between men and women among samurai, due to the extreme misogyny existing within this caste of warriors. .) Finally, Ubisoft’s open world formula seems to generate a certain weariness among certain playersas the Joueur du Grenier recently demonstrated in a video on open words. This weariness partly explains the resounding failure of the game Star Wars: Outlawsreleased at the end of August 2024.
Also, the arrival ofAssassin’s Creed Shadows is scrutinized with great attention by the specialized pressespecially since the game is supposed to save Ubisoft’s fiscal year. However, we have just learned that, after having been postponed for the first time to February 14, 2025, the new opus ofAssassin’s Creed Shadows has just been rescheduled once again to March 20.
In his press release, Ubisoft announces that it wants to take advantage of these “a few more weeks (…) to implement the valuable feedback (from the community) and guarantee an even more ambitious and captivating experience from day one“. For many observers, this decision would also be explained by the desire not to put Ubisoft in competition with the video games of February 2025, which include Monster Hunter Wilds, Civilization VII et Kingdom Come: Deliverance II.
If obviously Ubisoft takes the risk of not succeeding in saving its 2024 fiscal year, given the fact thatAssassin’s Creed Shadows will be marketed ten days before its closure, the video game giant is aware of the fact thatAssassin’s Creed Shadows still has huge potential. The spring release should also allow Ubisoft to immediately offer thematic and seasonal events, particularly in resonance with the cherry blossoms in Japan. But Ubisoft must not forget that the biggest rival ofAssassin’s Creed Shadows will also land in 2025. This is Ghost of Yōtei from the Sucker Punch studio, sequel to Ghost of Tsushima.
Source: hitek.fr
