2011 será un año de descanso para Assassin's Creed

2011 será un año de descanso para Assassin's Creed

Like most new IPs, Assassin's Creed has seen an (almost) annual release cycle, but Ubisoft Montreal's Jean-Francois Boivin intends to give the series a breather after Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood releases on November 16.

"Honestly, I think for the benefit of everybody — and business can come back and override everything I say because at the end of the day it's about selling games — I believe that this license needs a breather," Boivin explained. "You can't plough a field every year. Once every three years — or once every something — you have to let it breathe. You have to let the minerals back in. I think it's the same thing with any license, really."

Boivin used music games as an example to prove his point. "We can see a lot of the music games that are releasing year after year — the interest is a lot less than it used to be," dijo. "The excitement is a lot less than it used to be. You want to keep people excited. You gotta make people miss it a bit."

But Boivin doesn't have the final say on how much this "breather" would last, if it gets approved at all by Ubisoft higher-ups. Ultimately, it'll come down to "creative people" saying "we need this much time to do something new and refreshing, just scope wise" and "business people" putting a release date on the next game.

"If we skip a year, I think we're good. But yeah, I think we could do something really true to the license if we skip a year and release it in 2012 or 2013," Boivin concluded.

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