Ubisoft’s monetary disclosures this week haven’t got plenty of excellent news for traders, particularly since Star Wars Outlaws debuted to disappointing gross sales and Murderer’s Creed Shadows has been delayed to 2025. Nonetheless, the corporate did supply an encouraging replace about its relationship with Steam. Ubisoft has reversed its earlier stance and can now launch each Star Wars Outlaws and Murderer’s Creed Shadows on Steam, together with different day-one releases.
In 2019, Ubisoft government Chris Early defined why the corporate had pulled again from Steam and shared his ideas on its enterprise mannequin. “It is unrealistic, the present enterprise mannequin they’ve,” mentioned Early. “It would not replicate the place the world is at the moment by way of sport distribution.”
As an alternative of releasing video games via Steam, Ubisoft dropped titles via its personal on-line retailer and through the Epic Games Retailer. It was extensively assumed that Ubisoft continued to help Epic as a result of it takes a smaller proportion of sport gross sales than Steam does. Ubisoft’s choice to rethink its relationship with Steam might imply that the corporate believes it might probably improve its gross sales by using that retailer’s wider attain.
Star Wars Outlaws will hit Steam on November 21, whereas Murderer’s Creed Shadow will probably be launched on Steam concurrently with its debut on consoles on February 14, 2025.