We hope you were not anticipating to play Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora earlier than the following film arrives. Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment have delayed the Avatar sport to 2023 or 2024. The builders pinned the setback on “ongoing constraints” affecting sport manufacturing throughout the trade. Ubisoft mentioned it was nonetheless “committed” to making a next-gen sport and noticed James Cameron’s franchise as a “multi-year opportunity.”

Other tasks are going through delays and even cancellations. Axios‘ Stephen Totilo famous that Ubisoft has cancelled its battle royale brawler Ghost Recon Frontline and Splinter Cell VR. The firm additionally dropped two unannounced video games, and has pushed again a lower-profile “premium” sport from a 2022-2023 launch window to 2023-2024.

The selections come as Ubisoft tries to show round its fortunes. While it did see “better than expected” gross sales from the Assassin’s Creed collection and Rainbow Six Siege within the first quarter, its web bookings dipped 10 % in comparison with a 12 months earlier. Ubisoft’s enterprise is not booming, and the delays for video games like Frontiers of Pandora solely enhance the stress to chop prices.