When it comes to why Ubisoft might have stepped away from its MO of cranking out around a dozen releases a year and instead treats us to relative radio silence, it all comes down to two possible scenarios, depending on how you view the studio.
Option 1, for those positively predisposed toward the Guillemots, is that Ubisoft is “pulling a Rockstar” and choosing quality over quantity for its next major release – likely to be the Assassin’s Creed Black Flag remake – concentrating all of its focus, energy, and resources on a single game designed to revitalize the studio.
Option 2, for those not particularly inclined to support a studio that has worn the anti-gamer attitude on its sleeve on more than one occasion, suggests that after two years of underperformance, declining…