Update: Following this story, Assassin's Creed Shadows ended up getting delayed to February 2025:
Original story: Here at Pure Xbox HQ, we're quite looking forward to Microsoft's upcoming Tokyo Game Show livestream - the team has delivered some interesting announcements there in recent times. However, one company that will no longer be delivering a TGS showcase is Ubisoft; the team has decided to back out of the event at the last minute.
Posting on Twitter just yesterday, Ubisoft Japan has has cancelled its previously planned TGS livestream due to "various circumstances". The broadcast was set to showcase brand-new Assassin's Creed Shadows footage, alongside updates for already released titles like Star Wars Outlaws and XDefiant.
Beyond this 'various circumstances' translation here, we really don't know why Ubi has decided to cancel at such a late stage. In any case, AC Shadows is probably the big miss here, given that it was the only unreleased game in Ubisoft's planned schedule.
No matter though, Xbox is still on track to deliver its big Tokyo Game Show broadcast for 2024 this week. We're expecting a Japan-focused show of course, with fresh Xbox Game Pass announcements and more during the Microsoft livestream.
What do you think to this last-minute cancellation? Discuss the news down below.
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Considering the blocky low-bitrate of live streams I'm hardly bothered, they don't do modern games any justice, you basically have to watch the 4K stream later which still has compression but is much, much better.
glances at all the fubars Ubisoft has made with this game, from historical reenactment society symbols being used to the whole broken Torii gate in the last few days and isn’t surprised they’re going radio silent
lol.
Ubisofts first AC game set in Japan is cancelled for a Japanese showcase…. I wonder why 🤣
Eh. I already have AC Shadows preordered so not much for them to show me lol. Can’t wait for November! Edit: this didn’t age well.
This and the new Ghost of Yotei game means I am set for next year!
It could be any number of reasons. It not really worth speculating what is happening here without more information.
Obviously the Templars are fiddling with the timeline…
@Savage_Joe I didn't say it was BECAUSE of the live-stream quality, was just stating the live-steam quality is horrendous and does modern games no favours. You really have to watch the higher bitrate 4K versions that go up later to get a better impression.
Considering their treatment to Japanese Assassins its not a surprise
Here's hoping they don't delay it considering it's my most anticipated game.
The hate really is out of control with this one.
Don't remember something like Nioh getting this kind of hate. 😂
Maybe they were worried about being upstaged by Ghost of Yotei 😂
@Nightcrawler71 If that was the worry…it was a very valid one. That game looks fantastic!
@Lup hate everywhere. Make sure you report all the hate you see. Do gods work.
@Fenbops
Nah, I'm just gonna support Ubi buying the game and that's it.
For once it feels like the industry is changing for the better because we called out the liars and cheats
@Nightcrawler71 Dare one might even say... "ghosted" for GoY 🥸
"Posting on Twitter just yesterday, Ubisoft Japan has has cancelled its previously planned TGS livestream..."
Even AC Shadows articles are not immune to mishaps.
We all know why they're panicking about this game
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