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Earlier today, Ubisoft canceled its online appearance at the Tokyo Game Show due to “various circumstances”; however, Isndier Gaming has learned that Ubisoft has also canceled its press previews of Assassin’s Creed Shadows.

According to various sources, the Assassin’s Creed Shadows press previews were scheduled to take place next week, and the embargo date for the previews would be announced then.

At the time of writing, Assassin’s Creed Shadows is still scheduled to release on November 12, 2024, however, the recent announcements may suggest that the game might be delayed.

Insider Gaming reached out to Ubisoft for comment but, as of yet, has yet to reply on the cancellation of the previews, but did not offer comment on the cancellation of the Tokyo Game Show. Earlier today, Ubisoft announced in a statement about Tokyo Game Show:

“We regret to inform you that due to various circumstances, we have decided to cancel our online participation in Tokyo Game Show 2024 which was scheduled to start at 3:00 PM on September 26th,” the statement reads.

“We apologize for the short notice. We sincerely apologize to everyone who was looking forward to the broadcast.”


The company said that the “currently ongoing giveaway campaign” would continue despite the fact that the broadcast was no longer happening.

https://insider-gaming.com/assassins-creed-shaodow-previews-delayed/

 

[DenchDeckard]

Hot damn. What the fuck is going on?

 

[DeepEnigma]

 

[GrayChild]

FAFO, Ubisoft.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

 

[SEGAvangelist]

 

[Just_one]

just watch them removing the black samurai completly from the game.

 

[Punished Miku]

Meanwhile at Ubisoft HQ, final polishing on Shadows continues including some rumored alterations to the main characters.

 

[MMaRsu]

Lol

 

[SlimySnake]

Looks like a delay is on the cards. Disappointing but I’m willing to wait till next year to get a more polished game.

Shit happens. Don’t think they will go and change the race of the character though. This is likely an issue with polish and bugs.

 

[Flabagast]

Probably a delay then

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

Nero-Gaf is more like it.

It's hilarious until all we have left is fortnite and roblox....but keep fiddling fam.

 

[Bartski]

Told ya

 

[Laptop1991]

Pre sales still doing great then!.

 

[Punished Miku]

Probably a delay then

It honestly needs it. The gameplay footage shown did not look as good as I expected.

 

[Kacho]

Hot damn. What the fuck is going on?

The reckoning

 

[yogaflame]

So much backlash and anger especially from Japan, on what they did with AC: shadows. Sweet Baby inc forced influence on games really is the poison to gaming world this days.

 

[a multicultural team of v]

I hope this cost them a fuckload of money to make and it ruins them.

 

[Kotaro]

Where are you all suckas who said that this game will be mega-hit?!?

All indications show this will be a colossal flop. Concord may actually have a rival for the floppest game of the year

 

[Z O N E]

 

[Wishmaster92]

Hot damn. What the fuck is going on?

The game is about to fucking bomb

 

[rm082e]

just watch them removing the black samurai completly from the game.

There is no way they could delay this a year, replace that character with a native Japanese, and rework the story. If they did that, they would be drug though the mud and destroyed in the press for caving to racists.

 

[ElFenomeno]

Oh man, I really wanted to see some new gameplay footage for Assassins Creed 48.

 

[DeepEnigma]

 

[vaibhavpisal]

They just don’t want any discussion around it.

Shadow dropping it will result in better sales at this point.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

This whole game's turned into a disaster.

Sorry Yasuke bro, you deserve better. Also sorry Japan; you deserve better too.

They just don’t want any discussion around it.

Shadow dropping it will result in better sales at this point.

Well, certain streamers shadow-dropping bad shows didn't lead to increased views and ratings. In fact, those shows suffered from it.

Doubt that strategy suddenly works for a video game already marred with controversy.

 

[Kotaro]

Era is coping hard

'mUsT bE a bUg!!!'

 

[YuLY]

Yusuke taken out and replaced with Japanese male ???? IMAGINE THE FUCKSTORM

 

[Z O N E]

They just don’t want any discussion around it.

Shadow dropping it will result in better sales at this point.

I see what you did there.

 

[digital_ghost]

Where are you all suckas who said that this game will be mega-hit?!?

All indications show this will be a colossal flop. Concord may actually have a rival for the floppest game of the year

In September 2022, the Assassin's Creed action adventure video game series had generated approximately 200 million lifetime unit sales.

Assassin's Creed 200 million sales

 

[Plague Doctor]

Yeah, totally stopping an entire expensive prepaid marketing plan dead in it's tracks cause of a technical bug.

This makes total sense and not is reaching at all.

I love cope.

 

[Branded]

Where are you all suckas who said that this game will be mega-hit?!?

All indications show this will be a colossal flop. Concord may actually have a rival for the floppest game of the year

There's plenty still out there who crave UbiSlop so I doubt it will be anywhere near Concord levels of flop.

 

[Nikodemos]

Era is coping hard

'mUsT bE a bUg!!!'

Well, in fairness, Ubisoft games and massive bugs tend to go together like binge drinking and dodgy shawarma.

 

[Dazraell]

Damage control mode: On

 

[Hrk69]

 

[ReBurn]

They just don’t want any discussion around it.

Shadow dropping it will result in better sales at this point.

Everyone already knows. I doubt a shadow drop would make a difference either way.

 

[Kacho]

Yusuke taken out and replaced with Japanese male ???? IMAGINE THE FUCKSTORM

 

[Hookshot]

Remake it with a Japanese bloke and add samurai Black as dlc. Everyone is happy that way

 

[Blackage]

The cope is real at the other place, and I don't even fully agree with the angry narrative going on heh.

 

[hemo memo]

I hope this cost them a fuckload of money to make and it ruins them.

Even if, they'll recover with the next Assassin's Creed. This just show them to drop SB Inc next time.

 

[DryvBy]

History has been cancelled.

 

[winjer]

 

[The Cockatrice]

 

[David Ricardo]

There is no way they could delay this a year, replace that character with a native Japanese, and rework the story. If they did that, they would be drug though the mud and destroyed in the press for caving to racists.

They could argue seeing Yasuke beat the heck out of japanese people would fuel racism too. And history fans probably would also like to play as somebody more representative of that period of japanese history.

Also, they have much more to change than Yasuke. I heard they had some Chinese music, the armors are not from that period of time, they included a sword from an anime... there is a lot they could improve and have a much more positive reception in the future.

Miyamoto said "a delayed game is eventually good. A bad game is bad forever." It didn´t apply to Skull and bones, but I think in some instances it´s still somewhat true today. And this could be one of them.

 

[Elios83]

Are they so scared of controversies ruining launch?

It seems that the gaming industry has finally reached the point where publishers are realizing that certain forced choices not only do not bring good rep points anymore but they can actually be poison for the reception of their products.

 

[GHG]

They just don’t want any discussion around it.

Shadow dropping it will result in better sales at this point.

I agree. They would do this.

So they end up with the same eventuality that Hi-Fi Rush resulted in.

 

[SeriousCrayon]

Its a fucking video game man...People need to start putting on their big boy pants and realize there are waay bigger things in the world to take offense over...For example I was at the beach the other day and this huge fatty had the nerve to wear a bikini....That's an image I won't soon forget.

 

[Ammogeddon]

What a time to be alive.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

I hope this cost them a fuckload of money to make and it ruins them.

Blackrock’s money will compensate.

 

[Kacho]

History has been cancelled.

“So here we have this giant enemy crab” in H fucking D