Future Assassin's Creed games could have longer development cycles compared to the current series standard, a senior Ubisoft official has suggested. Many Assassin's Creed fans would likely characterize this as a positive change, as a vocal portion of the fandom has long been calling for longer development cycles for the franchise.
The Assassin's Creed series had annual releases from 2009 to 2015. Since then, Ubisoft has put out four more mainline games and is about to launch its fifth one in November 2024, thus averaging one new title every two years. The company's individual development cycles have progressively gotten longer over this period, with that trend culminating in Assassin's Creed Shadows, which is already the series' longest-running project that's been in the works for approximately four years.
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Reflecting on this state of affairs in a recent interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Assassin's Creed Shadows lead producer Karl Onnée suggested that four years might be the new norm for the series, at least as far as his own projects are concerned. "Four years, I think, is the right balance to go from conception...
