Ubisoft has been actually experiencing this these days, it has been experiencing recreation lag after recreation lag for a number of years now and simply final month make an urgent investor call After the information that he canceled three unannounced initiatives…on four of them had canceled the previous year. However throughout immediately’s quarterly earnings name, CEO Yves Guillemot assured traders that each one cancellations are essential to make room for the remaining video games.

“We canceled a number of video games as we would have liked to make room for different video games in improvement on the firm, and that basically helps with all the opposite video games which are going nicely,” Guillemot mentioned. “We really feel we have now the appropriate variety of video games now as we all know we will likely be releasing loads of video games within the ’24 fiscal yr that can make room for different video games on the way in which within the firm as nicely.

“Taking a look at 24 months, the variety of video games within the firm working within the firm will drop fairly a bit, which is able to make extra room for all of the video games we have now. Having mentioned that, we all know that many of those video games may even have post-launch content material, and it’ll take a certain quantity of staff and expertise to really create that content material.”

This makes some sense – if Ubisoft’s groups are scattered throughout many initiatives and most of these initiatives aren’t doing nicely, it appears logical to cancel the dangerous ones and transfer these groups to help initiatives that appear extra promising. And the promise of many extra video games within the subsequent two years (the fiscal twenty fourth kicks off in April of this yr) is definitely encouraging after Ubisoft’s a number of years of relative drought.

Now we have an concept of ​​what’s to come back from Ubisoft from April 2023 to March 2024: Murderer’s Creed Mirage, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Cell, Tom Clancy’s The Division Resurgence, The Crew Motorfest and Cranium and Bones (just came out of its sixth delay). We additionally know that there’s “one other massive recreation” amongst Ubisoft’s unannounced works. Following studies that Nintendo, Sony, and Xbox will not be on the present flooring for the primary bodily E3 since 2019, it is potential we’ll see these video games and extra at E3 2023, which Ubisoft says will attend “if any” immediately.

Ubisoft reported €726.9 million ($777.1 million) internet bookings, down 2.6% year-over-year, and estimates full-year internet bookings will fall 10% year-over-year when it studies them on the finish of the present quarter.

Rebekah Valentine is a information reporter for IGN. You will discover him on Twitter @duckvalentine.