Ubisoft Is Planning To Release Only 3 Or 4 Big-Budget Video Games In Fiscal Year 2019-2020

At the time of writing, Ubisoft had revealed that they are currently working on Far Cry: New Dawn, Trials: Rising, Tom Clancy's The Division 2, ANNO 1800, The Settlers reboot, and Beyond Good and Evil 2. Today, the company officially announced that they are planning to launch only 3 (or 4, the final decision is still up in the air) games in fiscal year 2019-2020 (between April 2019 and March 2020).

Considering that the new Far Cry launches tomorrow, Trials: Rising on February 26th, and The Division 2 in the middle of March, it leaves only Blue Byte's next Anno and Settlers (that are not traditionally counted as "big-budget" releases), BG&E2 (that will enter its beta phase in December, according to Director Michel Ancel), and Skull & Bones – Ubisoft Shanghai’s new offering that is coming in 2019.

The fact that Skull & Bones is the only Ubisoft “AAA” video game that is scheduled to launch actually next fiscal year raises a couple of questions (and yeah, we know that Just Dance 2020 is definitely coming in October), mostly about what the other two (or three) video games could possibly be.

Considering that Ubisoft has trademarked Rayman and Watch_Dogs, there's a chance that these two series will return in the next few months. When it comes to the last, unannounced game, I'd put my money on the long-rumored Splinter Cell 8 or Pioneer, Ubisoft's Rainbow Six: Siege-like multiplayer alien shooter. Whatever these games are, we will learn more about them during this year’s E3.

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