Game development is difficult, and delays are often inevitable. Especially when we’re talking about large multinational companies where release dates are set from places far removed from the day-to-day realities of production. This is something we’ve seen today with the wave of delays announced by Ubisoft for their games. However, one of these delays has caught our attention, and not without good reason.
Ubisoft has announced that a “major game,” previously planned to release before the end of March 2024, has been delayed. How long? Until sometime before the end of March 2025. While they haven’t mentioned any specific name, everyone quickly assumed which game it is. Because with only a few months left until that hypothetical release, there’s only one announced game on the horizon: Star Wars Outlaw.
This may seem like a long shot because the game is announced but doesn’t have a release date yet, but nothing could be further from the truth. As early as May last year, even before Star Wars Outlaws was announced, multiple sources confirmed that Ubisoft was planning to release an open-world Star Wars game. And its release date was scheduled for early 2024. Furthermore, two different sources have informed Kotaku that the intention was, or is, to publish the game before the end of the current fiscal year. That is, before March 31, 2024.
In addition to all of this, the statements from Kotaku’s sources and what Ubisoft has said also seem to align perfectly. While Ubisoft has stated that they had a major game planned to be released before the end of the current fiscal year, the extraordinarily positive fiscal balance has led them to delay it to maximize the value of their creation. On the other hand, Kotaku’s sources claim that the game may be too ambitious and could ultimately be delayed until the next fiscal year to ensure its final quality.
In other words, while we can’t confirm that the delayed game is Star Wars: Outlaws, all signs point to it being the most likely candidate. The only date we have is a vague 2024, and even with delays, they could still make it. They have nine months of the fiscal year to meet it. And if that helps the game to be released in its best possible version, it’s undoubtedly good news.
