Ubisoft is accountable for lots of memorable moments in gaming’s historical past, however one gamers nonetheless gained’t overlook is how nice the unique Watch Canines sport regarded when Ubisoft first confirmed it off at E3 2012.
The sport regarded wonderful, virtually unbelievably so – as a result of it was. The ultimate sport that launched in 2014 didn’t look practically nearly as good because the 2012 commercial, with the saving grace being that the primary Watch Canines is a greater than succesful sandbox sport.
It was a world that gamers had been capable of actually get pleasure from and dig into, a lot that Ubisoft stored making Watch Canines video games, the newest being Watch Canines: Legion, which launched on PS5 and PS4 in 2020.
Nonetheless, in line with a leaker who has beforehand been proper about Ubisoft properties earlier than, Watch Canines as a sequence is not any extra, together with the subsequent sport we had been meant to get from the universe.
Leaker xj0nathan made the declare that Watch Canines is “lifeless and buried” together with what they name a “pretty authentic” battle royale sport that was set to happen inside its universe, in response to somebody asking for an replace on the franchise.
xj0nathan pins the blame on the shortage of success of Watch Canines Legion, which might very nicely be the case. Since Legion launched nonetheless, Ubisoft has made it clear that it’ll focus extra on solely its largest franchises, which greater than something means it’ll concentrate on Murderer’s Creed.
There’s additionally the truth that Legion was developed by Ubisoft Toronto, which is now arduous at work on the Splinter Cell Remake. With the return of Sam Fisher and certain some work on the subsequent Murderer’s Creed sport thrown their manner, the workforce at Ubisoft Toronto may not have the bandwidth for the rest.
So sure, Watch Canines may very well be lifeless and buried for now, however it might additionally simply be that Ubisoft will return to it when it feels the time is correct.
For years it remained one of many publishers larger franchises, so there’s no actual date of demise we will placed on the sequence till Ubisoft comes out and says it gained’t ever make one other Watch Canines sport.
Supply – [xj0nathan on Twitter via Wccftech]