VR followers hoping for Ubisoft to take a position extra in the area will likely be disenchanted to listen to that the corporate is just not planning to extend funding in VR video games following disappointing gross sales of its most up-to-date VR endeavor Assasin’s Creed Nexus VR.
Throughout a financial Q&A to debate Ubisoft’s third-quarter gross sales for the 2024 fiscal yr, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot responded to a query from a caller who requested what the corporate plans for VR improvement as a result of latest {hardware} releases, most notably Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Guillemot revealed that Ubisoft doesn’t wish to make investments an excessive amount of in the VR market resulting from Nexus VR’s gross sales.
“We’ve got been a bit disenchanted by what we have been capable of obtain on VR with Assassin’s Creed,” Guillemot defined throughout the Q&A session. “It did okay, and it continues to promote, however we thought it will promote extra, so we aren’t rising our investments on VR for the time being as a result of it must take off.”
Guillemot additionally famous that Ubisoft was “very impressed” with Apple’s new spatial laptop that launched final week, nevertheless the corporate is just not going to develop extra on VR improvement, saying that it’s going to proceed to “take a look at however not make investments an excessive amount of in, till it grows sufficient.”
Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR was launched final November completely on the Meta Quest headsets. In our evaluate, we stated: “Murderer’s Creed Nexus is an impressively full Ubisoft sport, even when not all these elements stick the touchdown in VR.”
Nonetheless, it isn’t Ubisoft’s solely try to dive into the market because the French-based writer has produced a number of video games for digital actuality headsets. In 2017, Tom Clancy’s developer, Pink Storm Leisure, launched Star Trek: Bridge Crew for PSVR, PC VR headsets, and the Meta Quest. Moreover, Ubisoft launched House Junkies in 2019 and Transference in 2018, the latter of which helps VR and non-VR codecs. Ubisoft has additionally developed digital actuality experiences, like Far Cry VR: Dive Into Insanity and Escape The Lost Pyramid.
Sadly, Ubisoft’s affirmation of not additional investing in VR is just not totally shocking. Throughout an earnings call in July 2022, the corporate introduced it had canceled a VR sport primarily based on Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell franchise. Like Nexus VR, it additionally would have been unique to the Meta Quest headsets.
Taylor is a Reporter at IGN. You may comply with her on Twitter @TayNixster.