Ubisoft’s upcoming “Assassin’s Creed” titles won’t feature a competitive multiplayer this year.
The developers released a statement to Joystiq explaining why gamers won’t go head-to-head with each other in the title. The competitive multiplayer won’t be featured in “Assassin’s Creed: Unity” or “Assassin’s Creed: Rogue.”
"With Assassin's Creed Unity, the pillars of the franchise have evolved thanks to the potential of new generation consoles," Ubisoft said in a statement. "With that evolution, we wanted to bring a new type of multiplayer experience, which was asked for by fans and which we wanted to explore for a long time: cooperative gameplay.
“Our aim was to have a seamless single-to-multi experience: This is why we are not opposing single player and co-op; we have ancestral missions dealing with Arno's story and Brotherhood missions dealing with Arno's duties towards the Brotherhood."
The news comes shortly after Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot confirmed to Game Informer their last-gen exclusive “Assassin’s Creed: Rogue” title won’t be release to the Wii U. The CEO claims the last of development comes down to sales; “Assassin’s Creed” fans aren’t purchasing the title for the Wii U.
“What we see is that this year is still fine for the PS3 and 360, but next year because they are selling very quickly, we’ll move to the new hardware,” Guillemot told Game Informer. “After 2015, it will be hard for us to create games for those systems.”
“It’s very simple,” Guillemot added later on in the interview. “What we see is that Nintendo customers don’t buy Assassin’s Creed. Last year, we sold in very small number.”
“Assassin’s Creed: Unity” for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC will hit stores on Oct. 28. “Assassin’s Creed: Rogue” will be released to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on Nov. 11.
