Ubisoft postpones release of Rainbow Six and Division mobile games until at least April 2025
Ubisoft has unveiled its most recent financial report, which did not contain any groundbreaking announcements. However, there was a letdown for fans eagerly anticipating mobile adaptations of the Rainbow Six and The Division series. The company has stated that the teams working on Rainbow Six Mobile and The Division Resurgence require additional time to meet the high expectations of the competitive and expansive market.
As such, both titles are no longer expected to debut in the publisher’s current fiscal year, which ends on March 31, 2025. This means yet another delay for Rainbow Six Mobile, which was originally slated to arrive in 2022. Division Resurgence was expected to debut last year.
In an earnings call with investors, Ubisoft noted that “it’s very difficult to determine a set date” when asked why it was delaying games now that there are more than eight months left in the fiscal year. Executives said that Ubisoft wants the two games to last forever, and that the developers are “putting in the necessary work to make sure the games are perfect when they’re released.”
Elsewhere, Ubisoft said its free-to-play competitive shooter XDefiant is “off to an encouraging start”, picking up 10 million players in the first two weeks since its debut in May. In addition to updates to live service games like Rainbow Six Siege, The Crew Motorfest, and Skull and Bones (all of which the company says are working well), Ubisoft has a couple of exciting projects left for the rest of the year at Star. Wars Outlaws and Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
Meanwhile, Ubisoft was asked in its earnings call about the status of bringing Call of Duty games to cloud gaming services. The publisher has cloud gaming rights to Activision Blizzard games. Microsoft sold those rights to appease competition regulators and get through its Activision Blizzard merger.
You can expect Call of Duty games to start appearing on Ubisoft+ by the end of this year. This is in line with Microsoft’s plan to release Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 through the (now more expensive) Game Pass in October and bring other CoD games to that service.
