Ubisoft delayed its Avatar game to make it ‘perfect’
by Jay Peters from The Verge - All Posts on (#61NH4)
Image: Ubisoft Ubisoft has delayed Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora from a 2022 release window to sometime in 2023 or 2024, the company announced as part of its Q1 earnings on Thursday (pdf). The delay keeps up with something of a tradition for Avatar properties to get pushed.
We want to make [Avatar] a video game industry brand," Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said on Thursday's earnings call. It is important for us that we come with something that is perfect."
The company first announced it was working on a new Avatar game in 2017, and it debuted the first trailer in 2021. It seems likely that Ubisoft's plan was to release Frontiers of Pandora this year to coincide with the December debut of Avatar: The Way of Water, but now, we'll be waiting until 2023...