Ubisoft Cancels Three 'Unannounced Games', Delays Skull & Bones Again

Dust n' bones

by Ben Kerry Thu 12th Jan 2023

Ubisoft Cancels Three 'Unannounced Games', Delays Skull & Bones Again

Ubisoft has posted a new financial report detailing its current fiscal year results, whilst also looking ahead to the next financial period for the company. The report contains some pretty big info drops on the team's upcoming slate of games, although the news isn't particularly positive.

Let's get this part out of the way real quick - Ubisoft has delayed Skull & Bones once again. Recently pushed back to March 2023 from a previous late 2022 release, the game will now launch on Xbox sometime between April 2023 and March 2024, providing it doesn't see another delay.

In other news, the company has also cancelled three games internally; games the public wasn't even aware of until this report. The reasoning behind these cancellations, apparently, is to focus on "building our brands and live services into some of the most powerful within the industry".

There is some positive news tucked in here for Ubisoft fans though, regarding upcoming games that may actually see the light of day. The company says it has a selection of premium games in the works that haven't been announced yet, including "a large one":

"Leveraging the biggest pipeline of games in the Ubisoft’s history, 2023-24 will see the releases of Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Skull and Bones and other yet-to-be announced premium games, including a large one, as well as promising free-to-play titles for some of our biggest brands."

Will these unannounced games launch anytime soon? Will Skull & Bones ever see the light of day? Leave your thoughts down below.

[source staticctf.akamaized.net]

Ben is a News Writer at Pure Xbox, and is a fan of action, racing and straight-up shootin' in any Xbox game he can get his hands on. When he's not clutching an Xbox controller like his life depends on it, Ben spends his time listening to music that's far too old for him, watching football on the telly and probably eating somewhere.

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Lup
Thu 12th Jan 2023

Gotta respect that commitment I guess?

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Retrokingdan
Thu 12th Jan 2023

I played the last technical demo of it months ago, and it felt a long way off being complete. This is really no surprise

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Cyberpsycho
Thu 12th Jan 2023

Their games are not doing well as people have gotten fed up with the cut and paste open world style stuffed with 'Micro' transactions. What happened to the more original games they made a big mistake to only do a few series with the same mechanics.

As for Skull & Bones it has never looked any good and clearly suffering development hell like the Prince of Persia remake and Beyond good and Evil 2. I wouldn't be surprised if Ubisoft will be the next publisher to be sold as they are clearly struggling.

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Clyde_Radcliffe
Thu 12th Jan 2023

I've heard it said that their games are doing badly because people know they tend to put their games on sale very quickly so people wait for that.

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AndroidBango
Thu 12th Jan 2023

We're all going to be skulls and bones before this gets released.

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fabisputza007
Thu 12th Jan 2023

Hopefully the unannounced games change the formula. The open world structure they ve been using for the passed decade is extremely stale and uninteresting.
On the other hand I started playing fenyx rising and gotta admit this game is fabulous and fun as hell

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PhileasFragg
Thu 12th Jan 2023

Aww I was really looking forward to "Unannounced Game #2" it could have been a modern classic.

In the meantime I'll stick to Sea of Thieves for my Pirate action fix.

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Trmn8r
Thu 12th Jan 2023

Man, Ubisoft is a dumpster fire. They lost a lot of their soul... Mario and Rabbids might just be the only Ubi game I care about at this point. They've milked their IPs to death and keep botching their few new IPs...

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Solidchief
Thu 12th Jan 2023

The 5 people hyped for Skull and Bones are gonna be upset.

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Oppyz666
Thu 12th Jan 2023

I don't get why people play ubisoft games. For real. They are absolutely boring, they share the same structure (they basically change weapons or camera and that's it) and they are absolutely made for play once and forget about it's existance in 3 days. I bought a bundle a long time ago with far cry 3 and 5 and... well, i probably play once every year and a few minutes later i get bored.

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iplaygamesnstuff
Thu 12th Jan 2023

Hopefully they can get Riders Republic functioning properly. They've been avoiding fixing things like rewind and collision since launch. It's frustrating hearing about new games and the last game is still broken. Hopefully this allows them to fix their games.

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Tasuki
Thu 12th Jan 2023

Let's just call Skull and Bones what it is, Vaporware.

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MinervaX
Thu 12th Jan 2023

@Trmn8r well, then the bad news for you is that the reason they are in this situation is precisely because Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope didnt perform well. All this is going to do is push them further into the AC/Far Cry/Rainbow Six loop (and honestly, that's more variation than we get from Activision's CoD/CoD/CoD/CoD.)

Personally, I am looking forward to Skull and Bones, but also holding back only due to the possibility of it not being a solo-friendly experience. If it ends up being solo-friendly, I'm sure I'll be playing the game quite a bit.